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Honoured to be the Feature Member Blog for Food Bloggers of Canada.

Honoured to be the Feature Member Blog for Food Bloggers of Canada.

How cool is this: the Food Bloggers of Canada have featured unsweetened.ca as their Featured Member Blog. My answers to the Q&A range from food-related to not so food-related and intensely personal, but that is the nature of unsweetened.ca, or as Gerry says unsweetened is  “pure, undiluted, unsweetened Alexa” The fact I had to use my old banner really highlights my need for some unsweetened.ca logo/banner design work by someone who knows what they are doing! On a less self-critical note, I find it kind of cool that this feature was published the day before unsweetened.ca turned 9. Featured member…

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Today: 15000th photo to Flickr, and my 9th blogiversary.

Today: 15000th photo to Flickr, and my 9th blogiversary.

Today marks the 9th anniversary of my personal blog – unsweetened.ca (yes, this one!) The photo above is also the 15000 photo I have loaded to my personal account on Flickr. Yes 15000! If I ever wonder if I’m producing enough, this just answered it for me. Though I have a backlog of photos, posts and ideas just bursting to get out, so don’t expect me to stop any time soon.

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And We Are LIVE on WordPress!

And We Are LIVE on WordPress!

Yes, I know this is not nearly as exciting for you as it is for me.  But this is my blog, so you have to suffer through my verbal happy dance to get to the goodies like recipes, contests and delightful photos.  Happy Dance, Happy Dance, Happy Dance! A couple of small favours to ask of you my kind and generous readers: If you have a second, please leave a quick comment on the blog, facebook or twitter! I’m doing a little test of Livefyre to manage comments and see if social comments will filter through so we can have…

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Unsweetened.ca’s Moving Day. WordPress Here We Come!

Unsweetened.ca’s Moving Day. WordPress Here We Come!

Yes, it’s true, we are moving to wordpress and we’re moving today! Hold your horses (not your breath), and cross your fingers that all the name server, DNS mapping and RSS configuration we did in 2006 will get changed smoothly and quickly! If you are subscribed by RSS, there may be some hiccups.  Maybe you can check the site directly later this week if you don’t see a “Hooray it worked seamlessly” coming through your reader or email. Ready, set, transfer!

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Wrangling WordPress–need help

Wrangling WordPress–need help

As many of you know I’m doing some WordPress work and I’m bumping heads with the same issue over and over again… so I’m turning to my very smart, very resourceful and very helpful wordpress friends who I’m happy to suck up to in order to get help with the bane of my existence – CATEGORIES! Here’s the thing: I want a predictable way to know which category is going to show up dominate for a post if I assign 2 categories. Clarification: which category will be used in permalink if 2 are assigned. WordPress sucks at this and seems…

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Top 5 Toronto Weekend Meals

Top 5 Toronto Weekend Meals

Kim Vallee of At Home With Kim Vallee and On The Web With Kim Vallee invited me to send her a list of my Top 5 places to eat in Toronto. It’s always hard to limit myself to only 5 (that’s why I publish CheapEats guides with 200-365 recommendations)… but I was able to control myself and send her 3 CheapEat options for brunch & lunch, and 2 not-so CheapEats options for dinner. For example: The Fish Store and Sandwiches The best fish sandwich in Toronto. Not to be missed, but don’t expect fancy service or plush seating. The focus…

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Chicken Farmers Profile Lex

Chicken Farmers Profile Lex

Box of Chickens — Originally uploaded by LexnGer The Chicken Farmer’s of Canada blog – Chicken Feeds profiled me recently in their new series of Food Blogger Profiles. This is the interview that I needed to find a euphamism for “pissed off” for, I ended up using “upset”. Not as accurate or as representative of the drama, so where you see “upset” please read “pissed off”! My favourite line of the whole interview: “I left Barcelona traumatized by my own rudeness.” You can read it here 11 new laying hens are growing up on the island… starting in a cardboard…

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Copyright? What is This Thing Called Copyright?

Copyright? What is This Thing Called Copyright?

So the copyright discussion seems to continue with this new chapter from my friend Al, (aka @brundle_fly) who tweeted a link to this email, which I am reproducing with his explicit permission. He showed a lot more restraint in his subtle “UMMM No.” intro to this than I would ever be able to muster. Correction this was found by Al, not an issue he had. But still! “Please put them back right away”  You’ve got to be kidding me! [2013-02-08 - Sorry the original image in the original location has been replaced with something that I'm not comfortable having on…

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Top 5 Blogging Tips For Authors

Top 5 Blogging Tips For Authors

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Free books for bloggers!

Free books for bloggers!

For the third year, I’m hosting Mini Book Expo for Bloggers (http://www.minibookexpo.com) sharing some of the experience of BookExpo Canada with readers who weren’t able to attend. Claim it – Read it – Blog it This year, with help from the 50 publishers who are participating, we are giving free books to readers with one caveat – if you claim a book, you must write something about it on your blog, facebook page, or Indigo Community profile. Or, send it to us and we’ll post your review on www.minibookexpo.com There are over 400 titles being released 3-6 per day for…

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Need a Little Design Help for MiniBookExpo 2008

Need a Little Design Help for MiniBookExpo 2008

It’s almost June and you know what that means:  Mini Book Expo 2008!! This year I’m hoping to get more of the publishers involved directly so we can go back to the "Free Book" model which got more books into more people’s hands. (Or at least it did when the publisher’s didn’t drop a request.  I think Eden is still waiting for a title from 2007. ) This might mean there will be less ARCs available, but may mean there is a wider variety of Business, Food, Fiction and Non-Fiction available (fingers crossed).   Let’s see how it goes. But the…

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Where Have My Photos Been Lately

Where Have My Photos Been Lately

Yup, it’s time for another LexnGer Photo Round-Up post. We’ll skip their use on my own blog and on the CheapEats blogs – CETOblog.com & CEOTblog.com – the places you’d expect to see them popping up.  Here are a set of photos that are being used elsewhere. Places that are respecting the Creative Commons Attribution rules. chicken in a box on something like it — If you know me, you’ll how tickled I was this morning when the following story took place. I take the bus to work now… How to Be Productive Online When You’re Offline on BlogGrrl.com —…

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