Blog Readability Test

I saw this on Ballad in Plain E today so I thought I'd test it out on this here blog.



As I commented on Emma's post, this tool must be flawed because there is no way my glob (or blog as the rest of the world calls them) reads at a genius level, unless of course, it requires a genius to decipher what it is that I mean.

Crafty

A while ago I saw this incredibly easy project on one of the home design shows (I don't remember which) and I thought it would make a good addition to the living room.

Presenting... yarn art.



The colours in our living room have gotten progressively warmer over time so we needed some new, and affordable, art for over the couch. We bought the throw pillows at Pier 1 and I thought it would be nice to have something that mirrored the colours. I created this using a large inexpensive canvas and four different colours of yarn. All you have to do is tie it off in the back and wind it around the canvas until you are happy. It literally is that easy!

Battle of the Blog Readers: Bloglines vs. Google Reader

I recently exported all of my RSS subscriptions into Google Reader and I can't quite decide if I like it or not. I decided to try it out because it's one Google feature that I HADN'T tried yet and it seems like a large number of people are using it instead of Bloglines. It does look pretty and has the nice scroll tracking feature (marks each item as read when you scroll past it). I also like that you can mark items as "starred" like Gmail instead of the clippings folder that Bloglines has, which I usually forget is even there. Also, Google Reader seems to be a lot quicker to load than Bloglines. However, overall I think I am still partial to the functionality of Bloglines. I'm not sure if it's just because I have been using it for so long but something about Bloglines just strikes me as friendlier. Some Bloglines features that I love that, as far as I can tell, Google Reader doesn't have are the number of subscribers at the top of each feed and the fact that you can click on that number and see other users that have made their feeds public. I know Google Reader lets you have public pages for each folder, but I have my subscriptions into several folders and I can't see a public page for all of the subscriptions.

For those of you that have tried both out, do you have a preference of one over the other? Why?

Attack of the giant mushrooms

Today was a busy day filled with nothing so instead of writing actual content I am going to post one of my favourite photos that I took recently.


Alice Lake Provincial Park, Squamish, BC, September 15, 2007

PS. Go see No Country for Old Men. It was disturbing and gripping and soooo good! Javier Bardem is seriously creepy in this film.

Lest We Forget

For all of those Canadians, military and civilian, currently in Afghanistan and other theaters of operations - thank you for everything you do.

And for those that served in the past and to those that gave their lives so that we could live ours, we will never forget.


November 11, 2005 Camp Julien, Kabul, Afghanistan

Canucks vs Avalanche

Don't have much to say today so I'll cap off my sports filled week with some photos from the Canucks vs Avalanche game on Friday night.


There were members from each branch of the Canadian military there to do the ceremonial puck drop.




Canucks win!