Happiness – Another Year Trailer
We live in a time when “authenticity” is equated with those things or those people who are forthright in their brokenness and messiness, while stable, happy people are sometimes looked upon with skepticism, as...
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Watch what you say online
Following up on my recent post on Commenting Online, the Vancouver Sun reports on the growing trend of legal action against online comments. Seems that just because you are ‘online’ doesn’t mean you can...
The Sartorialist on a Creative Life
One of my favorite blogs, The Satorialist, a fashion blog by Scott Schuman in New York. A satorialist, is a person interested in sartorialism, which is an interest in matters of or relating to...
Commenting On Blogs
Always interesting to see how normally intelligent people, or so I assume, suddenly become complete jerks when they go online. Paul Krugman at NYT recently updated his comments rules. A little hilarious. Or even...
China’s Ghosts
I have heard that China has enough empty houses that nobody wants to buy to house Canada’s population 2 or 3 times over. Actually there are 68 million vacant and unwanted housing units build...
Industries that do well in recession
Reading about the economy has gotten me all gloomy! And there is a lot to be gloomy about – see my previous posts, The Bank Played on… and Canadian Economic Outlook. Oh, and there...
Blog Security
I keep getting asked for how to make wordpress secure so here is the URL for changing your tables – http://tdot-blog.com/wordpress/6-simple-steps-to-change-your-table-prefix-in-wordpress This is a tutorial for getting under the hood and into the guts...
A busy November? or no? Google’s previews
I have been feeling rather smug lately with a nice 20% jump in traffic from Google since the start of November. Conversions were down, but a nice boost in traffic. Now it has dropped...