Gifted Typist

What with Ozzy Osborne’s first wife’s first cousin visiting, the tall ships sailing in and out of port, the White Stripes being in town, the jazz festival happening, Beauty and the Beast on stage, my Photoshop studies ongoing and that strange heat-giving yellow orb in the sky – I believe the ancients called it the [...]

Maybe I’m just an old-fashioned typist, but I always thought it little creepy to meet online friends in the flesh. It’s one thing to chat behind the safety and anonymity of an on-line identity, but to break through that safety filter and present yourself face-to-face to your bloggie friends? Is that … right? The plan [...]

In this 21st-century post-modern era, we do things because we can. Watching a movie on an iPod, for example. I CAN do this on my iPod, but why would I want to see Pirates III on a 2 by 2 inch screen when I can watch it on a 42 inch screen, for example? Ditto [...]

Lately, GT has been receiving forty to fifty comments per day, virtually all of them complimentary. Here’s a taste: From Ralph: I am very impressed how you can build webpages! Please also visit my site: From Franklin: Great looking site so far!! I’m just starting to look around it but I love the title page! [...]

Phew! Just taking a break after a tough few days of fighing fires here at GT. This site has been under attack by Bad Bots. The other morning I checked my stats to find more than 500 hits from the same IP address. In two hours! It’s hard work trying to track them down , [...]

Here is something different, my new mini blog, The Little Typist. No, this isn’t a self-aggrandizing act to satisfy a bottomless pit of neediness. It’s a solution to my photo-display woes. The problem is that photos are greedy with the bandwidth and now that I’m running my own show (ie, GT is no longer hosted [...]

After all the belly aching about password fatigue, I’ve received a lot of information from companies offering solutions. So I tried one. And guess what?It worked. Passpack  is an online password manager. It’s still in Beta and seems to work, although I had trouble signing with Mozilla. It’s fine in Explorer. It’s fast and easy [...]

Want to solve your password problem? Then follow the directions of GT’s star commentator Dick. Do a spring clean on your brain. Dump the things you don’t need like names of people you knew in high school, friends’ kids and pets. You can even dump the birthdays and anniversaries although that might get you in [...]

Some of you might recall an incident a few months back when GT was flamed by the ultra right wing British National Party or BNP, as they are known. The encounter was short-lived thankfully, but others have not been so lucky. Flamers are angry, mean-spirited people who enter discussions on blogs or forums and destroy [...]

One of GT’s star commentators Tanya Espanya brought him into the world at 0:40 this morning. Alexander’s a whooper, too. Nine pounds. This is my first blog-friend baby. I feel the urge to run around handing out cigars or something. Congratulations to Espanya!

I’m going to come clean here and stop pretending that I know anything about this bloggie world. The fact is, I don’t. And the more I get into it, it seems the less I know. I think this is good because I’ve learned a lot in the past year or so, but sometimes it feels [...]

Here. Ok, I’m desperate looking for friends anyone please! Be my friend.

Because we in Canada so rarely enjoy a proper scandal célèbre, it seems only appropriate that we should give it all due attention when one arises. And so we return to the curious case of Mommy Blogger suing Judd Apatow for copyright infringement over the film Knocked Up. It seems another Canadian author has waded [...]

The saga of Canada’s Paris Hilton of motherhood Mommy Blogger suing the maker of the movie Knocked Up is itself worthy of a movie, or a soap opera. The Mommy Blogger wrote a chicklit book called Knocked Up: Confessions of a Hip Mother To Be about a media chick who gets knocked up after a [...]