I keep meaning to spend what little free time I have between work and school to work on fixing the problems on this blog, but I keep getting distracted. The fixes need to be done, as they are what keep me from blogging (every time I have a couple of minutes free, I work on the fixes instead of a new post). But I’m distracted yet again this weekend, paying attention to WordCamp Whistler ‘09, which is was organized by my favourite Vancouver bloggers. Karin and I would have really liked to go, but the budget does not allow it. Too bad Dad doesn’t own a room up there anymore.

Because I’m distracted yet again, I’ll make an exception and blog this quick post.

In order to keep up with what is going on, I’ve made a Yahoo Pipe with as many sources as I can find, and I’m constantly adding more. You can get the RSS feed or you can go to the pipe’s page. Included on the pipe page is the list of sites I’m pullling from so far, please leave a comment or Twitter me if you have additional suggestions.

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Just a quick post to say that I’ll be returning to regular posting by the new year, and hopefully even before then as I should have some time over the holidays.  There’s a number of things broken here, as when they’ve happened I’ve just had time to fix Karin’s blog; but I should have time between Christmas and the New Year to clean my own blog up, so please be patient.

I hope everyone is having a great holiday season (I’ll say Christmas, I’m not scared of being politically incorrect, but if you celebrate something else this time of year I hope it’s going great too!) and that you are all safe in this snowy weather. Drop back real soon!

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Two years ago Rebecca from Miss604.com participated in a fundraiser for charity called Blogathon.  I had recently discovered her blog at that time and read each post of the posts she made every 1/2 hour for 24 hours straight.  The next year several more blogs that I followed participated, and so now it is a bit of a tradition.

This year the web-wide organization did not materialize, but Rebecca herself has organized Blogathon for the Vancouver area.  Having a dismal readership myself, there was no point in participating as a blogger (the whole point is to raise some funds for a charity rather than to pollute the web with drivel no one is reading); but hopefully the few people out there who do read me might be so kind as to swing by some of the participating blogs.  You might discover a new favorite read or two, find some great content, and hopefully be inspired to donate to one of the worthy causes choosen by the bloggers.  My goal is to have enough readers by this time next year to participate myself.

Rebecca has a list of the blogs here, but by far the easiest way to follow them all is to use the Blogathon 2008 combined feed Duane Storey has just created.  I have been following Duane and Raul’s blog this evening, as they started their 24 hour shifts at 10pm, and will catch up with all the bloggers with my morning coffee.  There are numerous blogs that do not begin their 24 hours until tomorrow, so if you feel like it you can stay up the entire time along with the authors.

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I’m a little confused as to what constitutes news.  The CBC has just published this report that states that a Swedish newspaper has said that unrestricted free agent Mats Sudin has accepted the Vancouver Canucks offer to play for them next season.

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For a reporter, the next step when writing a story is supposed to be to confirm it through other sources.  The piece states that when they checked with Sudin’s representatives, they denied it.  The rest of the article is then just fill on Sudin’s career and the massive offer made by the Canucks to entice him to join the team.

Basically this seems very much like just another rumour.  So what is the headline?  The CBC choose “Sundin accepts offer to join Canucks: report”. I guess they feel that the last word is supposed to indicate that this is all just second hand rumours that are being denied by those involved; but to me it seems like they are attempting to make it sound pretty definite in that headline when in fact this is a non-news story that probably should not have been written.

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