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As I've blogged about before , I find the royal family interesting because they have this really bizarre job that they have to do and i...

Sometimes people talk about calories in terms of how much exercise it would take to burn them off.  There has even been talk of putting the ...

Dear Carolyn :  In the mid-1990s, when I was 22 and my brother was 18, our family took a Caribbean cruise. It was fun, but not so much ...

The scene: I'm sitting in a GO bus, putting on my seabands in the hope of warding off motion sickness. Guy next to me : "What are...

I recently blogged about a Blogger error message that prevents you from posting or saving posts unless the post has a title. It seems thi...

One of the things I found most bizarre in all the discussion surrounding the cancellation of Google Reader is that some people (including, a...

9. If you tell someone (or say about someone) that they should just get a job, as though it's that simple, you're required to hire t...

Quite often, if someone mentions that they don't like a certain food, someone else will reply with something like "Oh, you just hav...

My power didn't go out in the storm earlier this week, but, being a bit of a Twitter stormwatcher, I did occasionally look at Toronto Hy...

Recently in the news, there have been a number of cases of babies and toddlers dying after being forgotten in a car on a hot day.  This make...

Lately, when I type up a blog entry, I've been getting an error message "Required field must not be blank".  Through trial and...

From David Eddie :  Every spring my mother-in-law arrives from Europe. While she stays in her own home we see her often, usually for meal...

Mentioned in passing in an article about the exciting adventure of Calgary zookeepers trying to rescue giraffes from a flood with hippos th...

From Carolyn Hax : Dear Carolyn: My second-grade son was upset yesterday because his best friend at school told him to toughen up (my...

I recently had a comment from a webmaster of a site I had linked to (who appears to check out as a real person) asking me to remove the link...

I'm pretty sure they're shooting a movie in my neighbourhood.  I've seen movie-ish pylons and trucks and trailers, and some ligh...

I previously blogged some ideas for improving the Senate, building on the advantages of the existing model by making it less partisan. Wh...

For as long as I can remember, I've been using zap2it.com as my primary TV guide.  They could be customized to my TV provider so they...

One of the things I like to test translation software with is formal French complimentary closings.  French uses long, gorgeous, wordy pas...