Archive for October, 2007
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
The kitchen staff (so that includes me ) at work were offered 2 free pints to carve a pumpkin for Halloween.
Never having carved one before I didn’t know what to do so had a thought and came up with this idea and quickly mocked it up on the computer just before I had to [...]
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Posted in carve, carved, halloween, jack o lantern, pumpkin | 10 Comments »
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Google has awarded me Pagerank 3, yay!!!!
If only I had been awarded this before Google went nuts and made everyone distrust the whole thing and devalue it’s meaning!
Popularity: 10% [?]
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Posted in google reader, pagerank 3, pagrank | 3 Comments »
Monday, October 29th, 2007
Yesterday I was almost late for work because I saw this little thing munching a whole slice of pizza and I had to try and get a quick photo.
Popularity: 12% [?]
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Posted in photo, pizza, squirrel, squirrel eating pizza | 5 Comments »
Saturday, October 27th, 2007
Inspired by this post over at Vegan Momma I thought of this new meme idea and I know that the whole meme thing is maybe overstaurated in this little blogging world but I really like the what Opal said about seeing the people behind the blog and think this will be fun.
This is me:
(The photo [...]
Popularity: 15% [?]
Posted in Meme, photo, picture, treat your mother right, yourself | 6 Comments »
Friday, October 26th, 2007
I have not done a meme for a while and I was just about to post a meme that I have created when I saw that I had been tagged for this one by Lynn at the Sewing Mum. Phew that was a long sentence!
This is a quick and easy meme and a way to [...]
Popularity: 7% [?]
Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Thursday, October 25th, 2007
I once blogged about the difference between the letter Z (here) in the UK and in North America. It was only the tip of the iceberg as far as pronunciations and language differences between these English speaking nations (I should note, out of respect, that Canada actually has two languages… French and English. Oh and [...]
Popularity: 18% [?]
Posted in America, American English, British English, England, Language, Oscar Wilde, Pronounciation, meaning, translation, words | 4 Comments »
Monday, October 22nd, 2007
For some reason today I was thinking about English comedy and one comedian in particular came to mind.
Peter Kay is his name and I have included this video so you can make your own mind up!
So let me know what you think.
I also remembered this email that I got years ago so I dug it [...]
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Posted in Comedy, Peter Kay, Quotes | 1 Comment »
Friday, October 19th, 2007
On my bus trip this morning from Montreal, Canada to Burlington, Vermont, I met one of the most interesting characters I’ve met in a long long time. His name is Richard Rhone.
After a brief discussion about his Sansa MP3 player, he showed us a photo of himself with President Kennedy. In fact he was the [...]
Popularity: 18% [?]
Posted in Dial-up, First Black, Kennedy, President, President Kennedy, Richard Rhone, communications, high speed, patent, sue | 1 Comment »
Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Finally I have become eligible to write for Pay Per Post and as it’s just starting to get chilly here in Montreal I thought I would pick something helpful to write about in my first Paid Post.
I woke up yesterday morning and it felt a little chilly. I ran to the shower half dazed and [...]
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Posted in Cold, Garage Heater, pay per post | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
After taking my laptop to pieces and reassembling twice I now have a fully functioning laptop. Sadly though a few pieces and screws never made it back in, I hope they were not important!
My blogging life has suffered over the past few days with visitors almost reduced to nothing and 333 posts to get through [...]
Popularity: 12% [?]
Posted in broken screen, google reader, laptop, macbook, pay per post | 1 Comment »