Well it’s that time again. Every now and then a blog needs sprucing up and mine’s no different. This time though, most of the changes are under the hood. I updated my Wordpress theme to a newer version and while there are no significant visual differences, there are a bunch of little [...]
Entries from August 31st, 2009
Food Inc. – The Best Documentary On Food You’ll See In A Long Time
August 24th, 2009 · 10 Comments · Topics Of Interest
We went to see Food Inc. last week and I was impressed. It tells a simple story. Where does our food come from? In an age where many people will never see a farm in their lifetime, the very basic question of where does our food come from is often difficult enough [...]
Tags: movies
Aphids Attack
August 17th, 2009 · 9 Comments · House and Home
So my indoor garden was attacked by aphids. Come to find out, aphids are the bane of gardeners. I had no idea. Since this whole gardening thing is new to me, I had to go through the web and to the gardening center to try and figure out what the heck I [...]
Tags: gardening
Death Panels Will Kill You And Your Loved Ones
August 11th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Rants
Well, it now seems pretty clear as to how President Obama is going to solve the US health care crisis. This is important to we Canadians because we have health care issues of our own and finding out what our neighbours are doing can be a benefit. Clearly we can’t use the UK [...]
Tags: health care
Mailing Lists
August 6th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Web Development
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So I recently wrote about cutting edge marketing to cellphones via text messages. Today, we cover something a little bit more traditional. Snail-mail mailing lists.
We’ve all had the mail outs come in and clutter up our mailbox. Some days we find them to be extremely annoying, but at the same time, we can’t help but [...]
Tags: small business
First Harvest
August 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · House and Home
Here’s the very first thing that we’ve harvested from the plants we have growing. It’s not much, but it is a beautiful little strawberry.
My wife and I cut it in half and split it. It was a little tart but just full of flavour. It was a very satisfying moment and we’ve [...]
Tags: gardening