Did you wake up thinking "feed the map, must feed the map"?? I did. This whole map thing is already a little out of control. It's like it's taking over your life. Mine too. Oh, and don't forget to feed the map.  •  In other new, the part of my brain not controlled by the map tells me that People …

Ruk is a helpful person. Far more helpful than I ever am. This weekend he posted about how you can create a Google map to collaboratively and graphically and geographically display information about something. Trouble is... I write on a blog and have been writing on this blog for six years and …

Sometimes comment maker Rob Paterson's recollections of family life growing up with money in Britain - and sometimes the colonies - are often an entertaining glimpse into another world but even this one about his father surprised me:  •  ...Dad had set up a metals trading company called PISS , or …

...meeting clever people. I have never bought into the idea that the internet creates community or makes you more clever yourself. But it is undeniable that it gives you a direct connection to clever people whose lives are on other paths than your own. This morning, I got a link to Evan Rail's new …

It is always a giggle when rankings get debated. Robert Jago does a good job figuring out Canada's top political blogs with little thanks and even ranked me 15th this month even though you abandoned me durning the holidays. This month's rankings, however, are getting an extra cherry belly full of …

What a great looking headline for a blog post. I have no idea why I never thought of this before. I have a need to coast between Christmas and New Year's Day like everyone else so this is perfect. All I have to do is think of something I have already thought. of. The weird things is I have done …

Sifting the tea leaves of the place of oneself in the blogosphere and in life is entirely a mug's game. Only idiots care. Yet, I am an idiot. It struck me yesterday when I reviewed the detailed commentary James Bow has written on the 2008 Canadian Blog Awards. Admittedly, it has been some time …

OK, you need something more to vote for, don'tcha. There aren't enough names on the ballot if you are in the USA and if you are in Canada, well, you haven't voted for a couple of weeks and right now you are feeling a little left out. So here are ten questions to answer. The closest to ten for ten …

False praise! Gimme gimme that sweet false praise!  •  Apparently my Alexa ranking went from 533083 per week in September to 281,192 in November. Wooot! I really don't know what that means but WOOOOOT!!! The one thing I understand is that it makes me #10.