Shut up on mute, already
Excerpted from TheFreeDictionary: moot (mt) adj. 2. b. Of no practical importance; irrelevant. From the Kemsley Guide to Bad Writing: mute (myt) adj. 1. Unable to understand when to use the word “moot”, as in “moot point”. In the past two days, I’ve seen two technical articles online (that I won’t embarrass by linking) that [...]
Blackberry trivia: using other applications while on the phone
I always thought that I couldn’t access other Blackberry applications while I was talking on its phone, but I saw a video review of the new Blackberry Pearl today that made me try something that I’ve never tried before. I just found out a few weeks ago (yeah, okay, I finally read some of the [...]
Making the world smaller with Skype
I love this time of day, late afternoon, when I check my buddy list on Skype and see the early birds in Australia and the night owls in Europe all on line, plus the usual contingent of those on my own continent. Makes me feel like I can put my arms around the whole world, [...]
LibraryThing
Check out the new widget in my sidebar, just below the photos, called “What I’m Reading”. It’s generated from LibraryThing, where I can enter in books that I have in my library — using some very easy search tools that check Amazon and a number of other sources, so that I can just enter the [...]
‘Tis the season to eat squash
Over on BlogHer, a veritable orgy of butternut squash recipes.
I love the internet
It’s not even 9am, and I’ve had an “I love the internet” moment. Two nights ago, I was helping a friend to work out a few Blackberry problems, one of which was that her browser icons disappeared from the main screen after a recent reinstall. She doesn’t use the browser a lot, but I had [...]
A tempting reason to stay in bed
I was browsing through the most recent Victoria’s Secret catalogue this morning over tea, and amidst the wundergirls in lingerie, there was a spread for “glamourous bedding” showing some really awful purple and lavender velvet and satin bedding, with the subhead “give her a tempting reason to stay in bed”. This is wrong on so [...]
Linda, Linda, Linda
The night of The Magic Flute, I met my opera companions at Linda for an early dinner. This upstairs dining room above Salad King is a really lovely place to enjoy deliciously prepared and elegantly served Thai food, although it’s a bit disconcerting the first time that you have to shove your way through the [...]
Men in tights, packing flutes
Going from Mozart’s Requiem a week ago to his Magic Flute last Friday was really looking at the extreme ends of the Mozart spectrum, and I haven’t crammed that much culture into one week since my last marathon weekend at the Shakespearean festival in Stratford. Concerning the operetta, I don’t know what the prince was carrying [...]
On the move again
After just moving my wine club‘s hosting from Netfirms to 8i a couple of weeks ago, I find myself moving once again, to GoDaddy. I have this blog hosted at GoDaddy, plus a few other domains and small sites, and I know that it works for WordPress and my other needs. Unfortunately, although the performance [...]
