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(UPDATE – Jan. 15) Finally, I know what Twitter is for

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

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This is going to be a quick one.
Like sausages? I do. So I grilled some up for dinner. That’s what being a grown up is all about.
They say you’re not supposed to Tweet what you eat. They, being the many self-styled social media gurus I followed at the beginning [...]

MacGyver, eat your heart out

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Anyone see me drop just about all my camera gear on the concrete floor at the Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre a week or so back? Wondering how that turned out?
Probably not. But the Internet is a big place, and somebody’s got to fill it.

Luckily, cameras seem to bounce. Not so, zoom lenses. Fortunately, no broken [...]

Sault folks on the web

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

A few Saultites and Sault mentions on the web this week.
Check it out:
[UPDATED - Aug. 7]
Forgot to mention a couple of Sault natives who are taking part in an online casting call for the 1960s advertising agency drama Mad Men. Check out Miranda Wicket’s entry, and don’t forget Sistina Giordano’s entry too. Vote for them [...]

A blood-spattered good time (mixed martial arts)

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

A thought crossed my mind as I was stopping for (cheap U.S.) gas on the way home last Saturday (July 25)  from the King of the Cage: Disputed mixed martial arts event in Sault, Mich. (slideshow here)
What if I had unwittingly waltzed into a crime scene, just as the police were looking for a suspect in some horrible [...]

Faces. Some famous, some not-so-famous

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

It has been a week of good faces. Particularly these ones, which show the reactions of two fledgling actors as they take the stage for the first time at the Leap After Leap theatre camp.
Take a peek at the gallery below for more of this week-and-a-half’s batch of rejected photos, including a sampling of the [...]

A complete waste of time

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Sometimes there are days as a reporter when nobody you try to reach is available. And I mean NOBODY. Just not around. Gone fishin’. Out to lunch.
On those days, you try to be productive the best way you know how.
This is one of those days. Plus, it’s raining like crazy, so here’s a list of places on the [...]

The Sault on the blogotubes

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Just a couple Sault-related things for you that I picked up this morning on the web.
Found a Youtube video on the blog of an Arizona airport. If you ever wondered what it looked like to land a float-plane on the St. Mary’s River, this should help a bit.
Don’t seem to be able to embed the [...]

More photos that didn’t make it

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

It’s that time of the week again when I need to format my camera’s memory card.
This photo is one from yesterday when Aboriginal Affairs Minister Brad Duguid addressed the Chiefs of Ontario conference at Batchewana First Nation’s Rankin Arena (story here).
Check out the gallery below to see what else didn’t make it to newsprint in the last week and a half [...]

Sometimes, the Internet still manages to give me a chuckle

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Back in the heady days of the late 1990s, when we were all just getting the hang of the intertubes, and Yahoo seemed like such an edgy and off-the-wall name for a search engine, my prime concern was amusement. I’d crawl out of my narrow dorm room bed in the morning (alright, late afternoon, whatever) [...]

Walkman vs iPod, Twitter vs AT&T

Monday, June 29th, 2009

I don’t know about you, but I don’t look back on the cassette era with much nostalgia. Maybe the music (I maintain that much of what the Fat Boys accomplished still holds up), but not the tapes or the players. OK, maybe it was just a little cool that my cassette of Paul’s Boutique was [...]