March 2009

March 23 2009

Monday Rants

Are we really surprised about how disgusting Fox News was? Yes. Just when you thought they couldn’t go any lower, they prove you wrong. Way to go, douchebags. Re: Obama’s outrage about credit card companies charging 30% interest – seriously?? Honestly, it makes me a little sick of “Main Street”. First of all, it’s a [...]

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March 21 2009

NYC page now live!

I’m going to have to figure out a better way to link to my pages, but in the mean time, check out the NYC page for photos and trip notes!!

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March 19 2009

Grown-up Cookies

I feel rather grown up lately with my cookie recipe selections – *gasp*, am I actually weaning off chocolate? Nahhh, it’ll be back, you just wait. This week I was craving a classic shortbread cookie. It all started around Christmas when my sister Julia and I lamented the lack of shortbread baking in my mom’s [...]

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(Ironically, the article I’m about to bring up was served up to me via Gmail text ads. Seriously.) Privacy groups slam Google’s “behavioral” advertising plan. Have you ever clicked on an interesting text link or banner ad because it appealed to you? What were your immediate thoughts? Did you sit there and think, “Aw, shucks, [...]

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I was trying to find a good way to put the maps together for my upcoming NYC guide that I’m posting here, when Alex pointed me to a very interesting link – My Maps within Google Maps! You can start from scratch with a map, place markers down on your favourite places to go, add [...]

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