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Blogdom Kerfuffle

The "Blogdom of God" kerfuffle has been mentioned on several blogs of late (Bene Diction, Irene Q, Can You Hear Me Now and others). I mention it partly as an excuse to use the word "kerfuffle" in a semi-serious context. The Blogdom is an aggregator

Happy New Year!

Not a lot else to say really. It's raining, I want to overhaul my Desk Drawer section, especially since the demise of MP3.com. Any suggestions?

Free Association

Unconscious Mutterings game of free association. 1. Exchange:: currency, UK pounds to US dollars, £1 equals about $1.65. 2. Parental Advisory:: Guns N Roses as the voicemail "on hold" music. 3. Blowout:: tyre, Firestone, Ford Exploder. 4. Spider:: brown recluse spider, rumours of houses infested with them.

Free Association

Unconscious Mutterings game of free association. 1. Warning:: bottle of sleeping pills, label says "Warning, may cause drowsiness." 1. Aspirations:: to go, New Zealand. To do, try to draw, finish Hubby's sweater. 2. Starvation:: Ethiopia. 3. Lid:: baseball cap. 4. Sketch:: Art class, compulsory fifteen pencil

Free association

Unconscious Mutterings game of free association. 1. Blizzard:: "It's the wrong kind of snow, Gromit!" trains out of service for a 4 inch "blizzard"in England. 2. J:: Java, JDK 1.4.2, IntelliJ IDEA, Chronicle, Extreme Programming, coffee cup. 3. Control:: panel, options

Blogrolls and rankings, mountains and molehills

Bene Diction posted about blog ranking systems yesterday, and the post got me thinking. The blogroll on this page is for me to use. When I get home and check on blogs, I want to go to one page, and Ctrl-click on all the blogs at once (tabbed browsing

Free Association

Unconscious Mutterings game of free association. 1. Scrooge:: Charles Dickens, improbable coincidences. 2. Ribbon:: cat toy, Quantum the grey tabby rolling around on her back batting at the ribbon, mouth open and tail stump twitching. 3. Physical:: education, playing hockey in the snow on a frozen field in gym skirts.

Road Trip Thanksgiving

We went to Hampton Virginia for Thanksgiving, and it was a great road trip. Wonderful hospitality, lovely people, excellent food. Lessons learned: * Beef jerky is an acceptable food substance. * It is 890 miles from home to Hampton VA. * Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia combined have less police out on

Free Association

Unconscious Mutterings game of free association. 1. Concert:: Mannheim Steamroller, with Dennis and Amy. 2. Sydney:: Opera House, Finding Nemo. 3. Shower:: Bathroom. 4. Patterns:: Knitting, green Aran wool, 42 row pattern and 13 row patterns both together, "It'll be ready for our anniversary!" and eight

Free Association

Unconscious Mutterings game of free association. 1. Plan B:: Three Mile Island, nuclear meltdown. 2. Seattle:: Microsoft, home of the General Protection Fault and the Fatal Exception. 1. The lady wore:: red. 2. Upsetting:: flat cats on the road to work. 3. Tampon:: mouse. 4. Celebrity:: deathmatch. 5. Baja:: Suburu

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