Blog Stuff

Truth In Blogging

Years ago I made a post about people online and how they pretend to be something they aren’t, and I’ve been thinking about it again recently.  I made that post almost exactly 5 years ago and this issue is still a bit of a thorn in my side, especially now that the blogging community has grown so much since I …

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Five Years of Canadutch

Yesterday was the five year anniversary of this blog.   It started out on May 2, 2004 when I was anxiously awaiting my upcoming trip to Canada.  I’d not been home in almost four years so I was long overdue.  Now here I am, five years later… looking back on it like it was just yesterday! In the past five years …

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Paying it Forward – Blog Style!

A while back I saw that Zhu had a post called Pay it Forward.  I first thought of the movie by that name, but it turned out she was taking part in the same sort of thing only over blogs.  Here is how it was described: the exchange focuses on doing an act of kindness without expecting anything in return …

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My Blog is Loved!

Today DutchBitch has given me the I love your blog award!  Pretty cool! I’ll be honest.  I’ve seen other people handing these awards out to each other and I’ve been a little jealous and unloved. Not anymore, I’m one of the cool kids now, so to speak! This is how it works, according to DutchBitch: The “I Love Your Blog …

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Website Issues

A few people have mentioned that they are having problems with my site being slow to load.   It appears there are some problems going on with my host.   I thought it might be the theme, since the problems mainly started around the same time I switched themes, but after doing some testing everything is slow, even things on this domian …

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New Theme Up and Running

The new theme (WP-VYBE) is finally up!  What do you think?   You know me, if you hate it say you love it anyway because I just spent the last two days working on it.  I’m ok with you just amusing me. This theme is awesome and I really must give a big shout out to Michael over at Solostream.com for …

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Bloggy Award Winner!

I was reviewed at Bloggyaward.com today.    I was quite surprised when I saw it on my bloglines with my blog on there but was pleasantly surprised to see that I was a Bloggy Award Winner. The way the site works is, they review your site but only the really good ones get the ‘bloggy award’.   You have to get a …

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Bloggers Help!

Ok I’ve decided on a new theme, using the new header made by my friend Duncan (aka. Gravain for those of you gamer friends reading this). I have a problem though, I can’t get the drop down links to work that I used to use on my old theme, because I’m using sidebar widgets on this one. The code I …

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