Another Blog for BAD

Since today is the official BAD day, I wanted to be sure to add Sir Robin Rides Away to my list.

B A D Day for Bloggers

According to Konagod, tomorrow is Bloggroll Amnesty Day. This was apparently started by Jon Swift who dreamed it up as a way to share blog traffic with each other by highlighting blogs that don't get as much traffic as yours and adding them to your bloggroll. After careful consideration, I have decided that, even though she has been on my bloggroll quite a while, I'd like to encourage folks to stop by and check out Goldendaze Ginnie. She is a senior citizen who writes both comtempary posts as well as posts which tell us a lot about the midcentury time period. I'd also like to highlight Don't Make Me Get My Flying Monkees. Check these blogs out. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

Making Crystalized Ginger

I love just about anything with ginger in it so when Mistrel Boy over at Harp & Sword posted a recipe for crystalized ginger, I just had to try it. I have a simple recipe but this one takes four days and I figure that my house will smell wonderful for that length of time.

The by product of making your own crystalized ginger is ginger syrup. I am going to Santa Fe next week. I have a friend there who is kind enough to let me sleep on a futon on the floor of his recording studio for 3 or 4 nights. One of the things he just has to have when he comes here is gingerbread pancakes from Kerbey Lane Cafe. I'll be taking him a package of the mix for the pancakes and some of this syrup to go on them as a thank you gift. His sweetie, whom I have never met, will recieve some of my handmade soap.

After I get back from Santa Fe, I'll make a ganache of some Scharffen Burger dark chocolate thd dipping some of the ginger pieces in it. Yummmmmm!!! If all this turns out well, I'll be making more for Christmas gifts.

If you try this recipe, you will need a couple of very sharp knives, one for peeling the ginger and one for slicing it. I used my kitchen scales that I bought for soap making to weight the ginger. I don't think I would have ever figured out how much a pound and a half is by volume. You will lose about a quarter of the fresh ginger you start with when you peel the stuff. You will also need a heavy, non-reactive stock pot.


If you haven't read Harp and Sword, you are really missing some good reading. I have to warn you, though, you might gain weight if you try the recipes he posts.

The Dog Ate What?

This is one of the funniest things I have ever read.

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/bos/243881936.html

A Heads Up

This is a heads up to everyone to read Christine Kane's blog today. She writes one of my favorite blogs and her take on our "resolution" tradition is not to be missed.

Have a great New Year and be safe.

Yet another list

the Z list started as a list of marketing blogs. I have checked most of them out and enjoyed them. Here is the latest version I've seen.

Creative Think
Soloride
Movie Marketing Madness
Blog Till You Drop!
Get Shouty!
One Reader at a Time
100 Bloggers
Critical Fluff
The New PR
Own Your Brand!
OTOInsights
bizandbuzzWork,
in Plain English
Buzz Canuck
New Millenium PR
Pardon My French
The Instigator Blog
AENDirect
Marketing Hipster
The Marketing Minute
Funny Business
The Frager Factor
Mindblob
OrbitNow!
Open The Dialogue
Word Sell
Note to CMO:
That’s Great Marketing!
Shotgun MarketingBlog
BrandSizzle
bizsolutionsplus
Customers Rock
!Being Peter Kim
Andy Nulman
Billions With Zero Knowledge
Working at Home on the Internet
MapleLeaf 2.0
Darren Barefoot
Two Hat Marketing
The Engaging Brand
The Branding Blog
CrapHammer
Golden Practices
Viaspire
Tell Ten Friends
Flooring the Consumer
Kinetic Ideas
Unconventional Thinking
Buzzoodle
Conversation Agent
The Copywriting Maven
Hee-Haw Marketing
Scott Burkett’s Pothole on the Infobahn
Multi-Cult Classics
Logic + Emotion
Branding & Marketing
Carpe Factum
Steve’s 2 Cents
Simplicity
Popcorn n Roses
On Influence & Automation
Servant of Chaos
converstations
eSoup

Presentation Zen
Dmitry Linkov
aialone
Urban Jacksonville
John Wagner
Nick Rice
CKs Blog
Design Sojourn
Frozen Puck
The Sartorialist
Small Surfaces
Africa Unchained
Perspective
gDiapers
Marketing Nirvana
Bob Sutton¡
Hola! Oi! Hi!
Shut Up and Drink the Kool-Aid!
Women, Art, Life: Weaving It All Together
Community Guy
Social Media on the fly
Jeremy Latham’s Blog
SMogger Social Media Blog
Masey.com
37 Days
A Clear Eye
Alex Halavais
BlogBrothers
Brand Autopsy
Brand Soul
Creating Passionate Users
Crossroads Dispatches
Doc Searls
Drawn
eHub
FAST Company
gapingvoid
gillianic tendencies
Good Experience
Hitchhikers Guide to the Blogosphere
Hobopoet
How to Save the World
Josh Hallett
Joy of Six
Learned on Women
Listics
Make it Great
my topography
New Charm School
Occupational Adventure
Orbit Now
Pause
PureLand Mountain
Seth Godin
Simplicity
Songs of Experience
Talking Story
Time Goes By
Tom Peters
Tomorrow Today
WonderBranding
World Changing
Tertiary Education
Break Out
Joyful Jubilant Learning
re:invention: a toolbox for women-led businesses
CultureKitchen: Fresh Dissent Served Daily
I Work at Home
2020 Hindsight
100 Bloggers

The W list...not that W

I got this list from Jana B's blog, Jana's Journey, and added a couple of my favorites to it.

Tammy over at Women, Art, Life: Weaving It All Together had the idea of making a meme list of blogs "by women for women." So if you want to participate, here's what you do. Copy and paste all of the links I have here onto your blog post, and add the blogs you want onto the top. (Along with instructions for other people to do the same lol) I'll be putting blogs on here that I haven't linked in a while.
Women, Art, Life
California Fever
Gobulous Hottie Bloggers
Wings of the Morning
Tuff Toe-Nail
Be Alive, Believe, Be You
The Viral Garden
Looking Beyond the Cracked Window
Aphra Behn - Danger of eClectic shock
The New Charm School
Taexalia
Creative Every Day
Methaphor Bling
Simply Wait
Jana's Journey
Tinker Art
Art In the Garage
Thick Paint
MollyGordon Authentic Promotion
Christine Kane
Guilty with an Explanation