TODAY: Foaming with fury
Bloggers set up petition calling for a ban on foam sprays A GOOD year starts off with a long weekend, or as blogger Re-minisce (re-minisce.blogspot.com) puts it, a “wild and wanton new year loonnng weekend”. The weekend of wild celebrations aside, this is a good time to read what others are resolving to do this […]
Try ecto. It’s rilly, rilly good
I like being able to compose blog posts even when I’m not online – though that’s quite seldom. And while you could use any old text editor or word processor to compose and format your posts, you’d still have to do a bit of cutting, pasting or clicking here and there. So I’ve been using […]
O Christmas Tree
Some time ago, I spent Christmas Eve in London, cooking a dinner of grilled salmon on pasta, followed by a dessert of cherries and then a bottle of Scotch. It snowed that night, and quite heavily too. I woke up Christmas morning to take out the trash and fell on my backside on the iced-over […]
TODAY: NKF: The big buzz
Online community reactions range from amusement to outrage IN JULY, just after the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) scandal broke, someone started a blog called “Justice For NKF Donors” (justice4nkfdonors.blogspot.com) detailing key points in the investigation into the management of the charity organisation. At time of writing, that blog had not yet been updated with reactions […]
Google Music Search
Google Music Search: “A few of us decided to try to make the information you get for these searches even better, try so we created a music search feature. Now you can search for a popular artist name, like the Beatles or the Pixies, and often Google will show some information about that artist, like […]