On 799th day from this blog’s inauguration, I finally reached my 500th post, at the rate of only .63 posts a day. Not very prolific, I know, but I wasn’t really aiming to be such. In fact, in the first 466 days of this endeavor, I only posted once every…
I learned today that my friend Jason conferred the “I Love This Blog” award upon my humble soapbox. I sincerely appreciate your kindness, Jason. It is a bit embarrassing to me that you emphasize “a fascinating outsider’s perspective on American and British life”, which is something that appears less and…
A selection of pictures taken by Becky on her recent school-trip to Iceland can be found here or via the Picture Gallery on the navigation bar.
A small album with pictures from a recent day-trip to Rochester can be found either via the links on the navigation bar or here.
I check my blog stats practically every day, more out of idle curiosity than for any marketing insight. The traffic to my site is pretty steady, not in the grand sense of the word, but in terms of an established small core audience, and it fluctuates wildly only on days…
After a relatively sizeable delay – apologies to all! – the pictures from the third and final leg of our grand summer trip have been added to the Picture Gallery (accessible either from the navigation bar or at the link here). Enjoy!
I unexpectedly got inspired to play a bit with a Flickr plugin, the result of which is the Travelscapes widget on the right (it opens into a page that displays the entire photoset, if you click on “view more” link). I’ll likely work on several adjustments, but I like even…
So, Natasha posted the link to my lessons learned little soliloquy to Fodor’s and challenged people there to share their own expat lessons. It generated a discussion on Fodor’s that pushed her thread to the top of most active, and it also caused a heretofore unseen spike in visits to…
It occurred to me a while after writing the previous post that there may be topics of interest to my readers that do not cross my mind on their own. Therefore, here’s an open solicitation for all manner of questions that people may want to hear answers to on my…
Exactly two years ago I posted this brief welcome message and embarked on the exciting adventure of being a blogger. The purported thrills turned out to be less than thrilling and whatever illusions I had been harboring about my writing aptitude have been long dispelled. But look at the bright…
The gallery from the second leg of our summer holidays is here, accessible either via the links on the navigation bar or directly here.
And here they are, pictures from the first leg of our summer expedition. Accessible either via the links on the navigation bar or directly here.
Before starting to work through our photos from the big summer trip, Natasha quickly attended to the small batch of Windsor shots taken in July, which are now available in our Gallery (use the links on the navigation bar or click here).
I hate to disappoint people waiting for recent pictures from us, but they are unlikely to appear until some time in September. We, as a rule, post photos only after our resident Photoshop maestro, Natasha, had a chance to apply some improving touches to frequently already brilliant shots, and in…
WordPress is tailor-made for customization once you have the layout of your page pinned down. Then, you only have to play around with your stylesheet parameters to get your site looking just as you want it. It gets a bit more annoying if you decide to expropriate someone else’s theme…
I received a package today from my UCF friend Janiece. Since I am pretty sure that everyone else in the group had received theirs ahead of me (I am one of only two “offshore” members of the club, and the other person is “near offshore”), I can safely divulge what…
Remember my post on spammers’ creativeness? Lately, I’ve been bombarded quite regularly with bot-produced comments that appear as “compliments” from accidental readers. The idea, of course, is that I’ll take them for genuine praise and allow them through my spam controls, opening the door for future deluge. This looks like…
A small album with a selection of pictures from our recent trips to Canterbury and the Sissinghurst Castle Garden can be found via the link on the navigation bar. Or click here.
The small selection of pictures from our recent trip to Antwerp and Ghent is now available at the link on the navigation bar or here.
Several months ago, via Brian and/or Jason, who are my oldest blogging buddies, I started reading Whatever, a blog by the acsendant sci-fi luminary John Scalzi. I am not much of a sci-fi aficionado these days, and John’s outspokenly liberal political views occasionally grate on my sensibilities. But he is…