Archive for April, 2007

Simpsons Good For Your Health

April 29th, 2007

The humor of “The Simpsons” can reduce the stigma sometimes attached to mental health issues, a psychiatry conference will hear next week.read more | digg story

Sustainable Melbourne: Winners of the Premier’s Sustainability Awards 2007

April 28th, 2007

The winners of the Premier’s Sustainability Awards were recently announced on the 18 April 2007. The Premier’s Sustainability Awards, hosted by Sustainability Victoria, recognises “Victorian businesses, communities and individuals that demonstrate outstanding leadership in creating a more sustainable Victoria, now and for the future”read more | digg story

Wordpress Plugin: Wordpress vCard

April 19th, 2007

Overview
With this Wordpress plugin, you can add your vCard details via the Wordpress administration area and then display a link to your vCard via a vCard icon.

2007 Angus & Robertson Top 100 Unveiled

April 17th, 2007

In February I posted here about the 2007 Angus & Robertson Top 100 survey. The results have just been released and Ray Feist’s ‘Magician’ comes in at #9, one place up from its 2005 ranking.
Quite simply, Magician is one of the all-time classics (in general and particularly in fantasy), obtaining a great position purely on […]

Wordpress Video Plugin

April 17th, 2007

I have just installed a plugin that allows you to easily add flash videos from various video sites to post content. This post is a demonstration of the plugin, primarily for testing purposes.
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Raymond Feist News

April 13th, 2007

From the man himself, sent to the feistfans-l mailing list:
Just to let you know, this morning I agreed in principle to a new contract with HarperCollins (Harper/Voyager in the UK; Avon/Eos in the US) for six more books, plus a special project to be discussed.
This will end the Riftwar Cycle. Two books in the […]

Triskaidekaphobia and KitKats

April 7th, 2007

The title of this post is no doubt odd, but I have just been eating a pack of KitKats and the quantity of the packet caught my attention. The fun pack contains 13 miniature KitKats and I found it peculiar that Nestle decided to make a 13 pack. Perhaps this is the premium number of […]