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How I love the Interwebs

The post I wasn’t going to write

10 March 2010

Last week when I put up the quick post with the TtV tulip shot, I mentioned that I felt I’d been neglecting the blog lately because I’ve been so crazy busy and “feeling a little unsettled.” Bless her observant little heart, Angela picked up on it and asked me “Why unsettled?”
Sigh.
It’s been about three [...]

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Mindless Internet distraction #312

27 February 2010

Tensely clicking through various websites looking for info on the tsunami off the coast of Mexico for reasons I will more fully discuss in a few days, and I came across this. Via tweetstats, a wordle of my tweets.

Completely and utterly useless? You betcha. And yet, kinda cool nonetheless. And quite [...]

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“RIP Gordon Lightfoot.” Or not.

27 February 2010

Surely you heard the twitter-storm that turned into a media frenzy last week, about the wildly exaggerated rumours of the death of Gordon Lightfoot. But did you know it was an Ottawa woman and mom of two, nothing more nefarious than a biologist, who was the catalyst for the rumour? Read the full [...]

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The Creepy Thesis Hangover

22 February 2010

Leave it to Marla to come up with the perfect final word. By the time I’d gone to bed last night, I was feeling that vaguely hangover-y, regretful way she describes in her comment. You know, that guilty and indulgent way you feel when you’ve eaten too many chips or wasted too much [...]

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In which the Internet finally freaks her out once and for all

21 February 2010

For those of you not on Twitter at 10:00 pm on a Saturday night (what, you have a life?) you might have missed the latest gossip. Turns out some woman at SFU wrote a masters thesis about called “Works in Progress: An Analysis of Canadian Mommyblogs.” In it, she examines in minute detail the [...]

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Facebook fan pages?

17 February 2010

Oh wise and worldly bloggy peeps, riddle me this: do I need a Facebook fan page for the blog? Please argue the pros and cons.
(Caveat: I am not a huge FB user and would not I would not otherwise consider making a fan page, except I’ve been asked to investigate the concept at [...]

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In which she comes to doubt the reliability of Google Map’s suggested routes

16 February 2010

I was playing with Google Maps, trying to show the boys the distance from Los Angeles to Hawaii. It found LA with no problem, and I asked it for directions to Honolulu, Hawaii.
I was perplexed to see it suggested driving up the western coast of the United States, but absolutely tickled when [...]

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Blog is five years old today!

2 February 2010

Wow, can you believe it? Five years ago today, I dipped my toe in the Internet Ocean and have been dog-paddling madly across the sea ever since!
Five years! Wowza. And to celebrate, I dust off an old favourite meme that I’ve done at least two or three times before: the Time Traveler [...]

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2010 Canadian Weblog Awards

28 January 2010

You know I’m a bit of a blog award junkie. I admit it, in my personal life and even at work, I’m a huge believer in recognition and positive feedback. I’m sure this has everything to do with leftover insecurity issues from my teen years and my infernal and endless need for external [...]

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A bloggy question of ethics

27 January 2010

The other day, I received an e-mail pitch about a recent kids’ movie that I had thought about taking the boys to over Christmas. Now it’s coming out on DVD, and a PR firm working for the studio contacted me with what was very obviously a mass mailing.
Usually, I just delete these, [...]

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