Guess Who Was Featured on the Blog Herald?

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Excerpt: Well, me of course. They are currently going through entries on how bloggers work. I submitted an entry to the series over a week ago, and today it was featured. I wish my entry was near the start of their series, as those ones seemed to get a lot more comments than the later ones. Also, as I r …

Meeting Another Blogger

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Excerpt: Today, I got to meet up with James Cogan, the owner of DailyPixel.com, a great Canadian blogging network. He owns such blogs as Airport.ca, Engagements.ca, Footblog.com, Hell.ca and PrimeMinister.ca We talked about the state of the blogging world, and the lack of real participants in Ottawa, …

Set A Wedding Date

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Excerpt: Sabine and I have finaly set a Wedding Date. It currently is July 7th, 2007 at the St. Rita's Church (Holy Trinity Church) in Woodstock, Ontario. We hope this won't change for any reason, as it took us a long time to chose one, so please, mark it in your calendars. This means we can now start …

Getting My Xbox 360

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Excerpt: I got it. I have an Xbox 360. Thanks Jacob and thanks Best Buy. At 7:30 am, an employee from Best Buy came out with papers. He began passing them out and when one was handed to me I immediately looked at it, and in the top right corner it held a number. I was 16 of 18. There was not twenty-eight …

Engage(d)

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Excerpt: A little bit of a Star Trek pun in the title, but in all seriousness, I have asked my girlfriend of three years, Sabine, to marry me, and she said "yes". We don't have a date for the wedding yet, though it might be September 16th next year or the year after. Both of us are excited about takin …

Choke on a Mint

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Excerpt: Okay, today I logged into Bloglines only to be blasted with around fifty different people talking about Shaun Inman's new Mint web stats tracking application. I think I will stick with WP-Shortstat and AWStats, thank you very much. I don't think most people really took an objective look at this …

I Am A Professional Blogger

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Excerpt: I have joined the Bloggy Network as a content writer on a variety of technology and game console sites. I am really excited about this as it means I can live my dream life of being a Professional Blogger. From BloggingPro: “Jacob”, you ask yourself, “how in the world are you going to run …