Have a go at anything you like at this thread.

While I think much bloggy news is useless, this is a very compelling story - and one without commercial application...except the guy now seems to have a job reporting to the UK newspaper The Guardian.  •  Instant Update: Ok - this may not be new news but here is his blog up and running again …

Some of you may know me. Few that do have missed the fact that I like all things ale. I say that specifically as I really have not taken to lagers, those johnny-come-latelies of the zymurgical - based on a yeast isolated only in the late 1830's which ferments at 50 F. It might as well be Koolaid …

I have had a worsening tooth ache since I started looking at blogs and discussions involving them. They way you'd read it, they are going to make us smarter, more productive, more in touch with those we love...no doubt funnier and better dancers, too.. Reminds me of two things - why shy teens …

...this pretty much sums it up.

Somewhere Charlie Hunter, Rhodes scholar and my high school soccer coach - the man who told me of a player on the other side "I don't want to see him in the second half" - is whooping it up on this news.  •  Instant Update: There he be.

It was a rough drive back from Owen Sound.   Newmarket, Whitby and the 401 east stop around exit 462 all failed my goodly wife, the ever patient Ellen, in her quest for a Tim Horton's Iced Cappiccino available via her bank card.   I thought it was only on PEI, home of the smallest fritter in the …

I am used to resentment by Gen Xers such as me of Boomers.  Boomers are the bosses who don't get it, the collapsers of their depression-kid parents' pension schemes for the sake of post M&A "rationalization", triumphailists who leave others to pick up the pieces, hippies turned neo-cons. Why …

On the road writing from the Owen Sound Library here on the shores of Georgian Bay. Not as grand a trip as this or this but you do what you can.  •  It's grannie-in-law's 87 and, as she has been a mad hockey fan since before she attended the opening night of Maple Leaf Gardens, it is a good time …

Via this blog, I came across this guy giving a speech for the Blogtalk conference this weekend in Vienna. My teeth ached. A few reasons why:  •  How can a 600 million people have a conversation about anything -  the units of conversation are small.  •  These small units are not relationships or …

Of all the silly ideas and services floating around these blogs this one, Blogshares, a fantasy stock market to monitor who is who in the bloggy world is it. A mover. A shaker. There I am at 590 bucks and change. Say... there is reinvented at...$1,500 MORE!?!?!  What is that about...I work hard …

Sports analogies are like...well, you know.  •  Most often now the point of sports analogies spewing out of "SportsCentre" talking heads is to challenge you the viewer to keep up with the story you are actually being told. Images of war, politics, family relations are all employed. Watching the …

I have had the real pleasure of the acquaintance of a person whom I referred to as Fontman and his firm which now is apparently headquartered in Finland. While I have had the golden silverorange touch applied to the visuals here, I wonder what it might be to have pages that look like his.

I heard this sort of argument often in private practice, in management magazines aimed at the legal profession, at conferences. Isn't the idea in any field the you do something useful and you won't have to convince anyone?

Has Google jumped the shark? Every good IT company sooner or later does a odd thing which may herald a downturn of its fortunes. Didn't Xerox give away windows in the late 60's because it would never work. Didn't IMB give away the PC as, surely, no one could reverse engineer their stuff. Apple …

I have been following this story for a while and find it fascinating.  •  Later: So if there are now "Reporters without Borders" in addition to "Doctors without Borders" and even "Lawyers without Borders", what next...chiropractors without borders? Certified General Accountants sans frontiers …

There are certain personal interests one is wise not discussing during courting. One of mine is the habit of listening to long distance radio in the middle of the night. I have about ten radios including a real nice wind-up model originally designed for third world listeners to BBC World Service …

I got my new copy of the CD soundtrack to Christiane F, a cheery little movie about a teenage addict in West Berlin in the 1970's. I saw the movie when it first came out at Wormwoods in Halifax in 1981 or so and soon after picked up the lp which I had until one of the record purges during …

I don't get much of what Rob Paterson writes on his blog. Too many big words that don't show up in my daily conversation. Too many ideas that I just can't fix to a landmark. But I do get this. Well put.

I haven't taken a short haul train trip since Mulroney killed off the local trains in NS. Ah, those were the days - summer job in Truro, hop on a 7:00 pm train Friday, a couple of cold Olands Ex's in the bar car with Capers and a short hop from the train station in Halifax to the Seahorse to rub …

I guess I have been sidetracked for a few days. My dad's hometown team - Greenock Morton Football Club - won the big game yesterday. This morning after, I feel a level of relief that surprises me - I didn't realize I got so caught up.  •  I suppose making phone calls to strangers in the …

In another place, a word has raised its head - as used by me: usability.   I came across it - though pals - as used by Jakob Neilsen in reference to his calling to webpage usability - weighing what is on the screen.  Trouble is...I don't know what it means: the "ability to be used" sounds pretty …

It sure rained a lot in '82.

I like the beginning of things. I noticed not too deep into my teens that the best part for me of a first date was often the walk to the girl's house - before being distracted by aspects less thrilling than a common interest: her family, the "us" and the eventual prospect of getting the boot …

Really sunny at Stonehenge. 1970 holiday to see the relatives. Saw Pele and Brazil win the World Cup on a tiny TV in King's Lynn.

I love flags.   I have a collection of maybe 30 or so which I have gathered over the years ranging from a small all cotton one (12 x 18 inch) of the Town of Aalsmeer, The Netherlands (red, black and green horizontal stripes) where I worked in the flower auction in 1986 to a big Sweden (3 by 6 foot …

Jevon has recently written about egos and blogging. This made me consider what writing on these things is like and I keep coming back to that wonderfully dead-end technology of the 1970's - CB radio.  •  In both, you get on the medium, yap about what ever comes into your head and use funny names …