Congratulations! Pat yourself on the back and sip back on that well-deserved beverage of choice, because you managed to make your way through another work week without completely falling apart. As a suitable reward, you’ll want to lounge in front of your computer and enjoy this eclectic collection of blog posts from around the blogosphere. Let’s see if we can make sense of today’s title.
Daily Writing Tips starts us off by explaining the origins and derivation of term “kitty corner to” some place. As it turns out, the original usage of the word has absolutely nothing to do with the feline persuasion. It comes from cater-corner, an older English term that has since fallen into obscurity.
John Biehler suddenly found himself in the most surreal of situations when he discovered the zombies invading Vancouver. Yes, he really did get thrown into a zombie apocalypse and he didn’t even have his shotgun in tow. Thankfully, he was able to shoot many of the undead… using his camera.
I rub your brog (that’s not a typo) had quite the amazing experience at the Fuji Rock Festival 2009 in Japan. The weather may not have cooperated with the event, but the enthusiastic blogger was still there to snap shots of the crowd, the stage, Lily Allen, Oasis, Fall Out Boy, and more. That sounds like quite the concert series!
Jon Lee is preparing himself to get entertained, but he doesn’t want to cause too much harm to our Mother Nature in the process. As such, he recently put together an energy efficient HTPC to go with his LCD TV. The new home theatre PC is value-oriented too with an AMD Athlon II X2 250 processor, Antec NSK2480 case, Windows 7 RC, and 1TB Seagate Baracuda 7200.12 hard drive. The final cost came to about $700.
Thursday Bram is a freelance writer (like me) and she accepts a fair bit of payment via PayPal. For this reason, she doesn’t understand why other freelancers are paying extra fees with a PayPal personal account. It’s much more effective to upgrade to a (free) business account on PayPal and avoid these unneeded extra fees.
