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Tag Archives: Meta-blog
Welcome Mannionites!
I’m just now getting round to writing this, so if anyone has already been here and gone I hope you’ll be back again, but thanks to Lance Mannion for selecting Byzantium’s Shores as his favorite blog of the day. It’s … Continue reading →
Rearranging the curtains
Eagle-eyed readers may note a couple of small layout changes around here — mainly, I finally got around to creating a few “pages” for the blog, which Blogger has allowed for a while but which I haven’t found time (or … Continue reading →
Pruning
I’ve just spent some time pruning my blogroll. I’ve been overdue on this; it seems to me that over the last year or two, blogging has fallen out of favor as an online hobby in favor of Facebook and Twitter. … Continue reading →
Awarded!
Ensconced in his Canadian Cave of Coolness, Cal awarded me with this. There are no rules for me to pass this on, apparently; no set number of bloggers to whom I’m supposed to pass it. Also, there are no criteria … Continue reading →
And now for something completely different….
Here at Casa Jaquandor, we have our clock radio in the master bedroom set to WNED, Buffalo’s classical music station. We’re not always awoken by music, though: WNED actually leads off every hour with the newscast of BBC Radio, so … Continue reading →
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Sorry for the radio silence….
…but it’s been a really busy week, and come to think of it, the weekend is pretty jammed up, too. Yowza. (BTW, on a “metablog” note, I’m noticing that sometimes I approve comments for publishing here, and yet, for some … Continue reading →
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Dusting off my mirrored shades
Remember my big rant about advertising and how I’m using AdBlock on Firefox? The one I wrote yesterday? Well, forget about it. Firefox has still been running extremely slowly for me, so I decided that more drastic measures were called … Continue reading →
Blocked!
A couple of weeks ago I started using the AdBlockPlus extension for Firefox. I had mixed feelings about doing it. I’m generally of the view that advertising has become ridiculously present in our lives; I came to this realization about … Continue reading →
Tapping the microphone….
Hey, folks! Sorry for the lack of posting the last day or so. I actually intended to post something or other yesterday, but I got bitten suddenly by the most obnoxious of all bugs. You know the one. It’s the … Continue reading →
A very public service message
Just a note, folks: in this template, each post’s comments link appears at the top of the post, instead of at the bottom. So if you click a comments link at the bottom of a post, you’ll actually be leaving … Continue reading →