Rannie “Photojunkie” Turingan, who in my opinion is the heart and soul of the Greater Toronto Area Bloggers group, will be appearing on tonight’s edition of The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos on CBC Newsworld at 8pm Eastern Standard Time. The topic: weblogs and his winning the “Best Canadian Weblog” at the 2005 Bloggies. Go, Rannie!
They’ve been keeping me quite busy here at “Dos Vacas” — so busy, in fact, that I asked ol’ Boss Ross if it would be a problem if I put The Farm and IndieGameDev
on hiatus until, say, April. Ross looked at me if I’d suggested that we
get the department all cross-dressed, liquored up and into a nice
friendly round of Russian Roulette:
That’s me, Darryl Green and Ross Rader, all liquored up,
cross-dressed and ready to get our gun on. Or maybe it’s how Dave Winer
imagines the “White Males: Threat or Menace?” panel at Bloghercon would
be like.
So I spent some time this morning following the Getting Things Done
method of looking at upcoming tasks, which is pretty nicely captured in
this infographic from an entry in MarkTAW.com…
…and after a little thought decided, yeah, I can do those blogs and these projects reasonably.
The Farm has today’s posts up, and I’ll get to IndieGameDev a little later today.
Thanks to everyone for helping me troubleshoot my RSS feed. I wasn’t expecting so many responses!
However, all those responses suggest that a number of you are actually here for some actual reading material
as opposed to calls for debugging assistance. That’ll have to wait
until later this evening; I’m working on a number of ambitious projects
that have kept me too busy to blog at work (which The Powers That Be here don’t mind, as long as it’s within reason).
In the meantime, here’s a chance for you to give your powers of
creativity a workout. Consider this page from a “Liberal Agenda”…
Hmmm….shouldn’t there be something scheduled for 4:20?
What items would appear on its counterpart, the “Conservative Agenda”? Post your ideas in the comments.
(And come to think of it, as this person
put it, why doesn’t the agenda above simply book the entire day under
the item “Serve as the critical half of a fake dichotomy?”)
[Update at end of article]
If so, I need you help trying to solve a little problem here. I’ve
received a few emails telling me that my RSS feed is showing only the
titles of my entries. This seems to be the case on the Mac, but not
Windows.
If you can, could you please look at my RSS feed and report in the
comments what platform you’re using, what you’re using to view the RSS
feed and whether you see whole articles or just the titles? Thanks.
Update:
It looks as though there’s a problem with the RSS feeds for a number of
Blogware-based blogs. The Blogware team’s looking into it right now.
Hopefully, they’ll be able to resolve the issue soon.
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Congrats, Rannie!
The competition was pretty stiff, but in the end, the 2005 Weblog
Awards declared Rannie Turingan’s Photojunkie the Best Canadian Blog of
2005. Congratulations on your second win, Rannie! (He also won in 2003.)
I’d like to offer a hearty congratulations to the other nominees for the Best Canadian Blog title:
- Frank: Chromewaves.net
- Kim Gott: Bacon and Eh’s
- Kelly Knights: Marmalade.ca
Another local blogger, Sam from Daily Dose of Imagery, also got a nomination for Best Photography of a Weblog and won. Congrats, Sam!
I got a chance to catch up with most of the nominees on Saturday at a
gathering that Rannie threw for the nominees for Best Canadian Weblog
(Kelly couldn’t make it). It was possible because this year’s nominees
were all from the Greater Accordion City Area. It was fun, and Kim has a writeup of what happened at Bacon and Eh’s — mine will appear later.
I’d also like to thank all those readers who nominated me both this year and last year. You’re the best.
And hey, I think I’ve got a good shot for the Lifetime Acheivement award next year…
The launch party for PUBLICity,
a five-week photo exhibit featuring the work of the city’s top photobloggers, takes place this Thursday, March 17th at the Toronto Free Gallery (660 Queen Street East, a block and a half west of Broadview). The works will be on display through April 23rd. The featured artists are:
- Jonathan Day-Reiner
- Sam Javanrouh
- Adam Krawesky
- Davin Risk
- Matt O’Sullivan
- Gayla Trail
- Rannie Turingan
PUBLICity is a presentation of the Toronto Free Gallery and Spacing magazine, the fine folks who brought you those Toronto Subway Buttons mentioned on BoingBoing and other prominent sites written by dashing and devastatingly smart people. Spacing — whose motto is “Whose space is public space?” — is a magazine devoted to Accordion City’s
urban landscape and covers issues such as the increasing
corporatization and privatization of public space, the senseless
anti-postering bylaw and the city’s hidden gems and secret pathways.
I’ll be there. Since it’ll be St. Patrick’s Day, I’ll be very easy to spot; I’ll be the drunk guy with the accordion.
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Gun Safety Lesson Gone Wrong
In the attached video featuring a DEA officer talking about guns [1.9
MB, Windows Media, attachment], you know something bad is about to
happen when he utters the line “I’m the only one in this room
professional enough to handle a firearm”. Still, I think he makes an
excellent point (even if not quite in the way he intended) and he earns big kudos for continuing with the lecture.