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Still Alive

09Jan09

Posting from Windows Live Writer. Seems to work pretty good. Now I just need something to talk about.

I was reading the comments on this Consumerist post about Walmart’s new logo, and somebody pointed out the company’s own website has Canadian associates doing a Spanish-language cheer. That, in the parlance of our times, is some epic fail.

Arrrgh!

01Apr08

Further to my earlier rant, I found a victim: logo blog Brand New’s Ford logo stunt. Maybe I was a little hard on them in my comment, but that may be in part because a small part of me wanted it to be true.
Next April 1st, I’m staying off the Intarwebs.

I didn’t use to be an April Fool’s Scrooge. But this year tears it. Every blog I read regularly has something that’s lame… but it also causes you to read the legit stuff carefully, even too skeptically. I’m just going to skip over all blog posts dated April 1st, from now on.
 
Except this one.

It’s magic!

29Mar08

If you’re using WordPress, you need to check this out.

(By the way, expect regular posting to resume.)

Whoopsy-doodle!

16Jan08

Well, I did get the mass e-mail from Dreamhost telling me about their billing snafu. Luckily, the charge and cancellation appear to have happened so quick they don’t even show up on my credit card. Meanwhile the friendly folk at Dreamhost are getting a lot of flak for trying to treat the situation with a [...]

Font update

10Dec07

In regards to this post, the kind people at Ask Metafilter tell me it’s Bookman Swash Italic, which unfortunately has never been available as a digital font. Alas.

Memories…

10Dec07

This guy has posted to Youtube some great old Canadian TV commercials from the 1970s. Some of these are among my earliest memories of TV watching. Everything from beer…

to insurance (and a jingle that’s vivid in my mind)…

and of course, the Colonel!

Can anyone tell me what this font is?

Here’s a buncha WordPress themes. Debating switching to one of them.


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