November 12, 2008 8:36 pm -

I’m not sure why people put miles-long blogrolls on every page of their blogs. Sure, have a “links” page. But every single page containing a list of all the blogs you read? Some apparently several hundred long? Page bloat. Just because there’s a widget for Blogroll doesn’t mean you need to use it. On every page of your site. All they’re doing is making your site harder to navigate, take longer to load, and completely messing up utilities like Google Blogsearch’s “Incoming Links” (which is part of the WordPress dashboard - now rendered useless because every site with my blog in their blogroll now lists tonnes of pages linking to my site, even when the posts have nothing to do with me or my blog.)

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7:11 pm -

holy CRAP have the spammers ever cranked things up a knotch. Fracking spammers. almost all are being blocked at the gates, but it’s frustrating think of all that wasted energy (electrical and individual)…

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November 11, 2008 2:05 pm -

Today, I’m being interviewed by CBC Radio for a piece on bike riding in Calgary. And, I got a request to use one of my photos on the cover of a book. Yay for traditional media! :-)

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November 8, 2008 2:27 pm -

2 weeks. 14 sleeps. I think I can keep sane for that long. Then I can stock up on natural vitamin D…

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November 7, 2008 2:44 pm -

Just got a call from someone from CBC News. They want to use some of my photos of the Calgary Children’s Hospital, and wanted to let me know about it. I love the Creative Commons license :-)

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November 5, 2008 6:58 pm -

Apparently, God’s website chokes on apostrophes, but I am now Reverend DArcy Norman. Take THAT, Bava!

I’m sure that the website is a legitimate church, and not just a certificate sales racket… I opted for the free online certificate, since I’m not sure He could be trusted with my credit card info…

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1:14 pm -

sunrise through downtownI think it’s pretty cool that one of my sunrise photos got picked up by the Discover Magazine Bad Astronomy blog as part of their 2008 US Election blogging. Wonder if they realized the sunrise was over Calgary, just a wee bit north of the US border :-)

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10:59 am -

I’m not sure I get how an online conference, using free software (not Free, but without cost), featuring people donating their time and energy, can turn around and charge $149 to let people in to see the presentations. That makes no sense to me. The one session I’m interested in is about breaking free from the chains of institutional control, but I have to pay $149 to see the show…

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November 4, 2008 11:55 pm -

I just subscribed to the second listserv in as many days. (Conscientious and WP-Edu) So much for web 2.0 - gimme my internet circa 1987, baybee! :-)

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9:58 pm -

oh, man the snow ever coming down now. should be an interesting ride in the morning…

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