After viewing the spring 2009 collections in New York, Milan and Paris last fall, I touted cropped pants, sheer evening gowns, loose-fitting jumpsuits and shiny cocktail dresses as irresistible trends in the new year.
Don’t count on it.
While shoppers want a little guidance, they no longer automatically follow the whims of designers and experts who proclaim the latest “must-have” items. Fash
I haven’t been posting as much as I would like to. I realize that has probably made this blog a bit too boring for some of my readers. I’m sorry. I’m going to be making some big changes around here very soon. I want to make this blog an exciting and informative place. I want [...]
The A New Band A Day Internet Monkey has been hard at work behind the scenes recently. Changes are afoot, and shortly, ANBAD will 'relaunch' (i.e. look a bit different, but not too different) with a whole host of 'new' and 'exciting' 'features' to scroll unexcitedly through before clicking on the link to The Onion.If you are one of the zillions of our lovely email-subscribing readers, have one las
This afternoon I attended a 90 minute Pilates Fusion class at Movements Afoot with Mandy, one of their Senior level instructors. The class is described as "A unique blend of cutting edge fitness.... Balance tools teach you new skills of balance, coordination and tone to enhance your posture. Remember wiggles are your reflexes teaching your muscles to work better."We started with back and ribcage
Methinks not, and nor does John Carpay of the Calgary Herald:
Should Bill Whatcott be required to pay $17,500 to four individuals who were offended by the flyers he distributed? In 2001 and 2002, Whatcott distributed flyers articulating his opposition to teaching homosexuality in Saskatoon’s public schools. In making his case that this would harm children, [...]
It has emerged that the fifth season of Stargate Atlantis will be the last one, and will be replaced by a new, third show: Stargate Universe.
The Stargate spin-off will end its regular run this season, instead focusing on movie production (much in the same way SG-1 continued through Ark of Truth and Continuum).
I’m reluctant to [...]
The finance loan industry has seen many changes over the past year, and most have been devastating to consumers. One of the biggest changes in the finance loan industry is the price of homes, which has dropped dramatically. Now, there are thousands of customers facing negative equity finance loan situations as a result, and it [...]
We have it from MF DOOM label Stones Throw that they will be releasing Madvillainy 2: The Box on September 15. Consisting of a 25-track CD of material off of 2004’s Madvillainy remixed by Madlib, a 7″ of Madlib’s “One Beer (Drunk Version)”, an honest-to-Memorex cassette tape of the Madvillainy demo preemptively leaked before the [...]
Couple of announcements, some of which have to do with the website. But first and foremost, the hard drive on my laptop is dying. It’s been really struggling as of late, and I got one of those lovely “SMART failure predicted” warnings during the boot up. The machine has been under heavy use during the [...]
Revision3 website attacked with denial of service for doing nothing more than using BitTorrent; and it was MediaDefender behind the attack. This can’t be good. These people are supposed to protect legit content makers, not attack them.
Stonehenge turns out to be a cemetery.
Slew of stories about using coax to deliver Ethernet. [...]
James Senior, a Microsoft UK blogger, has put up on his blog about an impending change to Live Maps in the UK. Don’t worry, we’re not going to see the farce that happened last time! The changes that will be coming are as follows: If you visit the URL you will get to Live Maps UK. If you go to maps via then you will get to Multimap. If you go to maps via then you will get to Multimap. So at least now if you go to maps.live.com you’ll actually be going to the site you wanted to go to in the first place. James also posts the official statement for this move: We recently announced the integration of Multimap into Live Search in the UK and will start to route users directly to the Multimap service from MSN UK and Live.com from 9th May. This release is part of our l
Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA) posted earnings of $0.44 EPS on $3.12 Billion in revenues. First Call consensus estimates were $0.41 EPS and $2.97 Billion on revenues....
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Last night was a very special night.
Last night, we (and by “we” I mean my husband) lifted The Poo into her crib for the very last time. This morning, her big-girl bed arrives, in all its white bead-board glory.
We’ve waited weeks for this newest piece in the puzzle that is The Poo’s girlhood. She is [...]
materialicious is going through an upgrade over the next few days, so I’m asking y’all to have patience if you see anything ‘untoward’ happening around here. First, we’re upgrading from WP 2.1 to the current incarnation, 2.3.3. In time, a completely new, custom theme will be installed. I’ve never really liked the theme that you [...]
I am now starting to get quite irate about relatively minor things. I finally got round to watching the TV coverage of the Slavia game yesterday and since when did we beat FK Austria Memphis 6 - 1 in the 1991-2 UEFA Cup. I know that the revisionism being carried out by UEFA since the inception of the Champions League is rampant but surely the European Champions Cup is not being totally eradicated? Peter Drury was truly an awful commentator and why did the interview with Arsene completely focus on the lack of Englishmen in the side? It’s a media spawned story that only the xenophobes that pollute our airwaves are interested in? Not content with that, The Times email, Ahead Of The Game, relegates the Cup Winners Cup 7 - 0 victory over Standard Liege to the UEFA Cup as well. Now I realise the two were merged but surely we are not being crowned UEFA Cup winners that season instead? Mind you, there’s an omen for you…Talking of that side, John Jensen played in that match a
Can you all do me a favor? Scroll down to June 10th to my story about losing my diamond, entitled "Bye Bye Diamond." When I look at it on the main page it appears to have a large grey box covering about 1/3 of it. But when I hit the time stamp to get to just that post with all the comments, the whole thing appears, no grey block.Does everyone else see this grey box? Or is it just my computer playing tricks on me? What the heck could it be? Is it some sort of alien censorship program that doesn't want me finding out who bought my original engagement ring because it was really sent down from Mars and the reason it went missing is because they froze the planet, wiped all of our memories and smashed my ring setting with a martian rock, installed a martian bug under my skin which has since cursed me with a perpetually self-populating zit colony on my jawline, and stole back my diamond because they don't want it being discovered that there are diamonds on Mars, thus instigating a mas
If you want to read a piece of baseless muck-raking journalism at its best (or should that be worst?) have a look at this piece from Peter Jenkins at Sydney's Daily Telegraph:Sacking me 'crazy': ConnollyDEFIANT Test coach John Connolly last night warned that any push to sack him before the World Cup in France would be "crazy". The return of John O'Neill as ARU chief executive will raise the heat on Connolly if the Australians misfire during a Tri-Nations campaign to kick off in South Africa on Saturday night. It's a hoot. The whole article is generated by putting the completely hypothetical supposition to Connolly that IF the Wallabies don't do well in the Tri-Nations he MAY be sacked, because John O'Neil once did something KINDA of similar at Soccer Australia. No scoop, no quote, no inside story, no nothing.I'm no Knuckles fan per se, but it doesn't take a genius to figure that regardless of how well Australia do in this Tri-Nations, replacing him after the tournamen
There will be big changes to this blog. It is a dawn of a new era. The curtain is coming down on one and a union will be formed on another.
Watch this space!
Sunday evening (Eastern time) which is Monday morning (Far East Time) could freature market volatility. The People's Bank of China is lifting its benchmark lending rate 27-basis points to 6.39% effective Sunday March 18, 2007, according to its website. This is the third rate increase in 11 months as Chinese monetary authorities continue a campaign to cool growth and investment and stabilize the
Twitter just threw up some strange stuff a few minutes ago before going down and coming back again!
I was in searching for people to add so I can follow them, and like the sheep that I am I was adding Robert Scoble. I made a typo when putting his name in and an error came up. It said:
Google ErrorNot ImplementedThe server us unable to process your request.
Strange, that Twitter would have its search powered by Google? I mean why use Google to search through your database to match only names, emails and phone numbers?
Unless of course the actual tweets or twitter messages are going to be made searchable sometime soon!
Anyway I typed in another name, and the search just stayed the same throwing up the same error message.
So I hit F5 on the keyboard to refresh the page.
Now the URL That I was on was:
http://twitter.com/home
However, hitting F5 brought me to
http://twitter.com/univ/home
Which is a page for:
Google ’s university search of University of Lethbridge
The page
