From the monthly archives:

March 2009

Launching My Wife’s Blog & Playing With The Thesis WordPress Theme

by on March 30, 2009

in Blogs & Feeds

Now we are a two blog family. My wife, Lorna Harris, now is blogging over at Calif Lorna. I spent a few years here on Daggle talking about life in Britain from the perspective of an American. Now she’s doing the flipside, looking at being in America as a Brit! It’s also the second blog [...]

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Ingrid Michaelson Does Song About Twitter

by on March 21, 2009

in Music,Twitter

Ingrid Michaelson is one of my favorite artists, always an amusing Twitterer and now the first major musician I know of to write a song about Twitter. Apparently she’s doing some studio work and twittered that she’d done a song: im made a song about twitter for you all. going crazy in the studio. And [...]

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As Obama Turns America Socialist, An American Reflecting On Life In “Socialist” Britain

by on March 17, 2009

in America,Britain

Apparently, some people believe President Barack Obama wants to turn the United States into a socialist country — with fears that this would be a terrible step in the wrong direction. Fair to say, most people with these fears have never lived in a socialist country. I have, in Britain, for 12 years. I thought [...]

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You Don’t Heal So Fast Anymore

by on March 6, 2009

in Life

I skinned my right arm over the weekend, right below the elbow. I was rollerblading through a parking lot along the beach here in Newport, and a big truck decided to pull into a parking space I was passing. Diving for the asphalt was the fastest way to avoid getting hit by a very large [...]

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Pita Pit Opens In Newport Beach

by on March 3, 2009

in Food,Orange County

I’d never heard of Pita Pit until a trip to Mammoth Mountain a few weeks ago. It was a nice change from the usual fast-food options, pita sandwiches, custom made. So I was thrilled to see that one was opening just around the block from me here in Newport Beach, on the Balboa Peninsula. Yesterday [...]

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Behind The Scenes Of The Greg In Hollywood Launch

by on March 1, 2009

in Friends,Internet,Marketing,Newspapers

My good friend Greg Hernandez, a veteran Hollywood reporter, was laid off from his job at the Daily News last Monday. In the week since, it’s a been an all-hands-on-deck rush to get him established on his new blog, now up at Greg In Hollywood. Below, a look at how it all came together, with [...]

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Time For Verified Twitter Accounts & An Easy Way To Do It

by on March 1, 2009

in Twitter

I’m not the first to talk about the problem with knowing whether a “real person” is behind an account on Twitter. I’m probably not the first to suggest this solution, either. But I’ll add another voice to hoping Twitter makes account verification possible. It would help. I was struck when reading the blog of LeVar [...]

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