OK, now what’s with this? Tell me that this is “planned” and that not everyone gets this banner as an option when they finish the Blog Survey at MIT? Tell me that the ONLY reason I have it is that the program they use to check out the site picks up certain keywords (such as [...]

What’s the story with Technorati lately? Or should I say more specifically My Technorati?? Now I know they’ve been re-vamping the site over there in Technorati land – and it’s looking pretty good I have to add! What first clued me in that they were doing that? Well OK…..My Technorati link down towards the bottom [...]

A close friend of mine told me recently “It’s cool checking out your blog every so often, cause if I think you’re talking crap or rambling on a bit too much I can choose not to read it – as opposed to a phone call where I have to listen to everything you say in [...]

OK, I think there was something in the ether’s yesterday as I’m feeling much better today. Not 100%, but a lot better than I was. I threw myself into some site coding/updating/rejuvenating today and that seemed to do the trick. Thinking about other things definitely helps! Playing with pups helps too – though it rained [...]

Two days ago I came across an entry in a blog which talked about cramps/Charley horses (sp). I have no idea exactly where I read it or which blog it was on but I’m truly thankful that I found it that day. Basically the writer was saying that their mother had always told them to [...]

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International Webloggers Day – June 14th, 2005. The historical impact of weblogging. I was asked by someone about a month or so ago if I was going to participate in this years International Webloggers Day? I replied that I’d never even heard of it – being relatively new to the world of blogging in general [...]

I found something interesting on the Not Safe For Children blog which I wanted to expand upon here. It’s about a cool project called The Monster Engine which has now been made into a book. Basically it poses the question – What would a kid’s drawing be like if it were made into a real [...]

I found these today on the Junk Feud blog as I was doing my rounds. They reminded me of something I once said many years ago – that celebrities should start fighting back using the same weapons as the paparazzi do. Cameras! I remember thinking that if I was ever in the situation of being [...]

But first, the sites that inspired me (in no particular order)