ME and Ophelia

HOW NOT TO GET FIRED BECAUSE OF YOUR BLOG
And what to do if your Mom discovers your blog...

How Not to Get Fired Because of Your Blog is just a little friendly advice from BLOGGER.

The Onion: Mom Finds Out About Blog. Blogger have no official stance on what to do when your mom discovers your blog.

Update: Blogger now have an official stance on this matter: What to do if your Mom discovers your blog...
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NEW YORK TIMES LINK GENERATOR
Bloggers can post links to NY Times articles that won't break

Found this in Lisa Williams' blog cadence90: "Jason Kottke helpfully points out the New York Times Link Generator, which will help you post links to NY Times articles that won't break three days later."

On visiting Jason's site I found his recipe How to cook tator tot hotdish: "Hotdish is a delicacy enjoyed by the inhabitants of the upper midwestern United States. For those of you who haven't spent a lot of time in the flyover states, hotdish is a dish typically baked in one pan and contains a meat, a starch, and a vegetable with optional cheese or onion crisps. It's what the rest of the US would call a casserole. Hotdish is the food of my people. The Cadillac of hotdishes is tator tot hotdish, and here's how you go about making it..."

Don't you love his Step 2? I only use fresh produce and do not know what tator tots are - so it's hard to guess if I am recommending a good recipe here....
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VICTORY OF GRIT AND GRACE
English heroes snatch World Cup from Australia

Saturday was a very proud day for us in England.

England's World Cup winning rugby team are set for a heroes' welcome when they return from Australia on Tuesday. The team's plane is due to touch down at Heathrow airport on Tuesday at 0500 GMT, with the Webb Ellis Trophy on board.

Tributes have been paid to the England players from all quarters of British society, including the Queen, the prime minister and football captain David Beckham.

Downing Street is discussing plans for an official celebration to mark the triumph. A victory parade in central London and a Downing Street party hosted by Tony Blair are two possible options.

There is speculation coach Clive Woodward could be knighted after guiding the team to its first World Cup victory and the first global success for a major British sports team since 1966.
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GOD'S PLAN IS TO MAKE YOU LIKE HIS SON JESUS
God wants us to like behaving like his son Jesus

Found this over at Jenn's: "Church sign near Gareth's house: GOD'S PLAN IS TO MAKE YOU LIKE HIS SON JESUS. Do you think they mean that God wants us to behave like his son Jesus? Or he wants us to like his son Jesus? Gareth and I believe it to be the latter, based on substantial evidence showing that parents want their children to be popular."

I'd like to think that it means both - a doubly good sign :-)
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BIG BROTHER BRITISH BLOGGER'S COMING
First World Summit on the Information Society

Extract from Dr James Moore at Harvard Law School, USA: Forget Big Brother, meet "Big Blogger", an ambitious British Council initiative in which an unlikely combination of western and Middle Eastern journalists will join forces to report from the ground at the first World Summit on the Information Society. The journalists - most of them twentysomething and with no previous experience of web-logging - will be responsible for a single news site The Daily Summit providing instant news and comment from the three-day event in Geneva in December.

Jim blogs that he'd love to see: "swarms of bloggers unleashed by each of perhaps 50 to 100 NGOs--and then the establishment of five or six honeycombs run by meta-bloggers to help turn the resulting nectar into honey...the whole thing could go down in history as the sticky summit...(ok, I got a little ahead of myself there...)"

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