Well, it’s been a crazy year of up-and-downs here a Keebler/Blog. It started with finally getting my domain name back, and led to higher traffic levels than ever before. There were over 174,000 unique visitors this year and 225,000 pageviews.

Here’s a break-down of what happened around here in 2007:

Most popular entries in 2007
Here’s [...]

I heard this song from Albert Hammond, Jr. (guitar guy for The Strokes) when I was watching ‘Gossip Girl’ yesterday. Am I crazy, or is it a pretty sweet track? And please don’t tell me, “Common, we’ve all been listening to this for the past year”

Albert Hammond, Jr. - Hard to Live [...]

My g/f’s sister got me hooked on Gossip Girl by telling me it’s like The O.C. in New York, and I gotta say: not a bad show. It’s pretty much The O.C. but the kids are richer, drink more, and have sex more. Which makes for a pretty entertaining 60 minutes [...]

Nothing like a great doomsday video to get you in that holiday spirit This guy was on Canada AM this morning. He makes a very logical argument for taking immediate action to counter global climate change, and has posted dozens of videos debating the finer points with skeptical YouTubers. Give it [...]

As I try to slide into my Christmas vacation, I was thinking about how TV networks should be distributing their TV shows online. It’s a given that play-on-demand, web-browser-based video players are the standard right now, but the number of people still downloading content using Bittorrent really show that the needs of the viewers [...]

Happy Boxing Day everybody

…in winter? wtf?! I named him Clem

I’ve always wanted to know how to make “wedding electrodes” I finally can on How It’s Made according to my cable box.

For the second time this month, today I went to use my CIBC “convenience” card for the first time and was greeted with: “You have exceeded your daily limit.” When I call telephone banking I get the same story: CIBC Fraud Detection has identified that my card could have been possibly stolen, so they [...]

Does anyone else think it is kinda funny that Microsoft chose to build the video player for MSNBC in Flash, when they are pitching their Silverlight applet as their new multimedia platform?

Don’t get me wrong, Flash is definitely the way to go for video on the web right now. It’s cross-platform and YouTube [...]