Monthly Archives: January 2008

Kennedys, Butler and Newsom on same wavelength.

I don’t know really why a Kennedy aristocracy should seem so much more palatable, or why the Kennedy Opinion should matter so much, but the fact is, when someone with the surname Kennedy who hails from New England speaks, people … Continue reading

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Blast from the past

Any of you who are in my age group may remember the old Participaction campaign, encouraging Canadian couch potatoes to get out there and do something! They’ve brought it back, and I think the ads are pretty funny:   Look … Continue reading

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Saturday night.

I just spent another Saturday night with Ralph Fiennes and Africa. Sometimes it’s The English Patient, and sometimes it’s The Constant Gardener, but it seems to fit, often enough. It was an OK day! I woke up early (for a … Continue reading

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MacWorld

Trying to get the live blog happening from cnet, but I’ve had like 6 404s already, half when trying to refresh the liveblog. HEY GET WITH THE PROGRAM, GUYS. OK Gizomodo wins the liveblog contest, hands down. They may be … Continue reading

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Skinny indie kids to vote for Obama

Pitchfork reads Win Butler’s blog, evidently, and Win is encouraging the kids to vote for Obama, partlly from a desire to avoid the near-monarchic, quasi Tudor-Stuart situation another Clinton presidency would provide. Let’s see, if we had Hillary for eiight … Continue reading

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And this pinkness…

I must say it’s more virulently, pepto-bismolly, pink on a Windows machine than it is on my Macs. Not sure why! but I apologize to my unenlightened friends for the visual shock. I hope to get the font colours back … Continue reading

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Oh, and

I’d really like to know why my tagging thing is all verklemmt. It’s pissing me off. Sigh. And I’ve buggered it rather with the update, haven’t I? LOL Whoops.

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Ooh, bad bloggers. Bad!

Gawker Media got some unwelcome headlines this week as bloggers on their site, Gizmodo (which I read pretty often) had the poor judgment to prank CES. Kids, what were you thinking?! Someone’s getting banned and Giz might not be coming … Continue reading

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Some photos of les cheveux

Not a big entry I think, I’ve spent too much time in this chair today and my back is in HELL but I wanted to share some pics of the hair. And if you know me from otherwhere on the … Continue reading

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Good Morning, Zagreb!

Someone in Hrvatska is reading my blog. Colour me boggled! Kakosi, Hrvatska!

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