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Shortly after I post each blog post, I get a hit from something called Facebook Bot, which statcounter says is a bot crawling my site, presu...

There's a theory that if you're feeling jealous of someone, you should ask yourself if you'd trade lives with that person.  (Fo...

In one of my very first translation classes, the prof asked us to think about how we'd translate a short English sentence into French.  ...

Conventional wisdom is that you should pack your lunch from home to save money. I've never done this.  There are enough lunch options ne...

I was googling about various digestive-related things, and, since Google generally knows what I need and I don't always act like a grown...

Dear Prudence , My girlfriend and I are having a disagreement. I posed to her the following hypothetical situation: Would you rescue from...

Dear Eddie Izzard, During one of your May 2010 shows at Massey Hall in Toronto, you asked the audience who or what Massey Hall was named a...

From last week's Carolyn Hax chat : Several years ago, I abruptly and unilaterally ended an 18-month relationship. I stand firm with ...

My parents spanked me when I was a child. I haven't admitted that before because I'm painfully ashamed of it.  (So ashamed of it I c...

I recently clicked on a trending topic hashtag related to some drama or another in teen pop music fandom (#beliebersareherefordirectioners -...

I previously bought an inkjet printer simply because I needed a printer-scanner combo immediately and that was the cheapest one readily avai...

I'm completely baffled that Gmail seems to think we want to compose our messages in a little window that hovers over our inbox where you...

Eddie Izzard is touring Canada in November and tickets just went on sale with the presale code BEES. To buy from Massey Hall, you need to...

Last night as I went about my evening routine, I took off my glasses to wash my face, and then didn't bother to put them back on to take...

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...