The author of West Coast Wanderlust has to file for unemployment over the phone (can’t just apply online for some reason) but everyone in the unemployment office is either furloughed or laid off, which does not result in timely acceptance of the application , much less receipt of benefits. Last ni...

… I wish people would realise that a little more. But anyway, the point is made (kind of), and it’s actually pretty refreshing to have a post as candid as this from someone senior in IBM / Lotus: Brent Peters: My own POV, without giving credence to the blog terrorism, emotion, lack of ‘in...

Many aren’t religious, but some are, and the forty days of self-denial are rapidly approaching.   Learning to Fly wants your ideas , so share. And it’s Ashley and Marques’s anniversary , as Ashely writes in Pretty Ashley .  ”I was not annoying enough to drive Marques away” (d...

All Your Content Are Belong To Us, Forever .  Not to be out-Skynetted by Google, Facebook has just changed its terms of service, essentially appropriating the rights to anything you post there, even after you delete your account.  ”I’ll still be using Facebook,” Boztopia notes,  ...

Normal 0 yesterday i told you about coping digitally, a panel discussion about mental illness and social media that i’ll be part of at this year’s northern voice blogging conference here in vancouver this coming friday and saturday (february 20 and 21, 2009). it was airdrie’s idea to b...

this is part 2 of this month’s buddhist carnival. part 1 is here. the wild mind and the wise body i like this article by the wild moods that takes the actual here-and-now feelings and sensations of mental illness and uses them to get in touch with mental health … take a second to think about...

My Journey Out ends his blog and writes: There’s been a cost for this blog though . Personal regrets for things I’ve written. People can’t keep a secret. Last week, my blog was such a hit inside my former employer I ended up blocking access from their domain. Friendship Tails is th...

Anyone who gets a bill from PEPCO has probably been a little gobsmacked by the size of their bills this winter.  Candy Sandwich and Not a Girl, Not Yet a Wino are not exceptions.  PEPCO doesn’t have any comment according to FOX-5 of DC . Once again the DC Council makes it hard to defend our fair...

welcome to the 24th edition of the carnival of eating disorders! blog carnival has been really problematic for the last few months. so instead of struggling with the blog carnival site, i just went back and looked at some posts from the past that i really enjoyed. here they are: a poem for the buddh...

EconoGirl takes my former colleagues to task in What Reporters Will Never Admit… Oh, we admit it. Who do you think is consuming all that porn? I mean… stories about the Obama Dog. Of Peace and Politics gives you the intern perspective in The “Chat about Obama” Podcast Okay, s...