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{ Yearly Archives } 2006

On the Air Again

The moving went relatively painlessly, although I should really have waited until the DNS move had taken effect before killing my DYNDNS account, since that meant the site was out of commission for a little longer than absolutely necessary. Mind you, that was probably all of two hours, so not a big deal. Everything should [...]

Moving Hosts

Our PC in the basement is getting overloaded with my site (spam attacks are on the increase), so I’m moving Anyway to a hosting service. It will probably take a day or two to get the wrinkles ironed out and the DNS routing hooked up properly; I’ll post again when it’s all set.

Kiwifruit Trivia

When Eve was visiting a few weeks ago, she said that someone was touring grocery stores in her area teaching people how to eat kiwifruit efficiently. I expressed some scepticism that this was necessary; she assured me it was. For fun I decided to do a photo shoot of how to cut and eat kiwifruit [...]

Consequences

It’s awfully cute when you watch a kitten playing with the phone cord

but not so cute when you see the consequences of the same kitten, now a cat, playing with the handset cord. I’m sure there’s some sort of parenting lesson in there.

CfS: NV2007

Enough acronyms for now - the Call for Speakers for NorthernVoice 2007 is open! Northern Voice is Vancouver’s blogging conference, focussing on personal blogging. This means talks on how to solve some company’s PR problems are not really in scope, though tips on how to run a personal blog when you’re also an executive at [...]

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Social Networking Musings

It seems social network sites are considered the heart of the internet these days, at least if you’re under 25 (which I’m not); real-life networks still exist of course, especially if you have children (see Tim’s post on Real Social Networks). I’m old-fashioned in that I still use email to keep in touch with people [...]

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