To our anonymous Bloglines subscribers

We see that 32 individuals have done us the honour of subscribing to our humble feed. However, only seven of them have done so publicly. We're wondering now, is it our breath? Are we an unfashionable URL to admit to reading? Do tell. You could mail and satisfy our curiosity. Or hit the comments section on this post.

May your blogrolls gather no moss

It's blog day today, chaps.

Dina posted about this ages ago, pointing to this Israeli blogger's page, where the meme started, and to a technorati tag you can use. Now, Harini sent a reminder around, and also points to a blog day wiki, which in turn points to a Guest Map you can register at.

What's all the hoopla about? Well, the numbers "3108," the date today (we're cheating and sticky-posting this a day in advance) if you use the right typeface, and squint at them out of the corner of your eye, look like the letters "BlOg." Unless you're American, of course, in which case today is OgBl day.

So Nir Ofir, the chap who started it, came up with this thought:

I believe that we bloggers have to have one day in the year which will be dedicated to know other bloggers, from other countries or areas of interests. I think, that not only that we need to know other bloggers; we need also to recommend about them to our Blog visitors.

When I’m trying to see the end in mind, in this is day every blogger will post a recommendation of 5 new blogs (in the same time). In this day all Blog web surfers will find themselves leaping and discovering new, unknown blogs.

So, here are my recommendations for the day.

Go see (snowed with work, we are, so we're being extra irresponsible): Our entire bloglines feed list. :)

BlogDay2005

You love me,

you really, really love me!

Hurricane Katrina

And http://www.katrinahelp.info is the URL for a wiki started by some members of the SEA-EAT team. The group has put together a page that aggregates several blog feeds, and a set of links to individual blogs.

Please email Rob, Rudi, Constantin, Angelo, Bala, Nancy and the others at katrinahelp.info@gmail.com or helpkatrina@gmail.com to volunteer to help with the wiki and news aggregation.

They are also on Google Talk, so you could add katrinahelp.info@gmail.com to your buddy list. And they are running a wiki conference room on yahoo; to join the discussions live, please send your yahoo id to katrinahelp@yahoo.ca.

Super-BlogThis!

Ken Dyck has given the BlogThis! button a bit of makeover. His version - which he calls XBlogThis!" - lets you add on Technorati tags, blockquotes instead of the double quote marks, and an author name. Go here for details and to pull the button to your browser bar.

Workbuster

Want something you can sneak into your spreadsheet or whatever you're supposed to be using at work instead of reading this blog? Try Ghostzilla. It's

...a Web browser like Firefox, but it shows up and disappears instantly, discreetly, blended with your application -- any application -- so the Web pages look like part of it and not like the Web at all.

Blogads Logo Contest

Blogads is running a Logo Contest. They're offering a US$1000 prize to the winning desgner, and US$300 to the blogger whose post inspires the winner. So remember where you read this, hm? [Via Blogger Buzz]

Gosh

The Cloudburst Mumbai blog was on BoingBoing and we didn't notice.

The other Peter Griffin

For all you Family Guy fans, you're at the wrong blog. This is what you were searching for. Thanks for dropping by.

With hesitancy

One of my close buddies in college lost his mum rather early. Breast cancer. At that time, I remember reading that it was a disease Parsi women were more likely to contract than other women. Recently - Sunday, I think it was - I remember reading that a study suggested that lots of French Fries eaten in their youth gave women higher breast cancer risks. (Can't remember which paper, but Google news lists quite a few variations on the theme.)

Now, am I being weird and unscientific and generalising too much, or is it not a fact that Parsis eat a lot of sali, which admittedly aren't pre-processed, but still as close to French fries as you can get without visiting McD's?