Archive for the 'self-promotion' Category

Fantacura Mk II

Friday, March 5th, 2010

My old 2001 Acura EL had a list of problems that were only getting worse and had to do with its 236,500 km plus age. So it was time to upgrade! My wife Lindsay and I had three cars on our list, all used cars in that 3 to 4 year old or 40,000 km… Continue Reading Fantacura Mk II

No more RimCount.com

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

In 2007 I created a web site to designed to help everyone, principally me, track your luck with the Tim Horton’sâ„¢ roll-up promotion and let users share their experience with others. Today Rim Count has been shut down. The site required a little bit of work to update the content for 2010, but more than… Continue Reading No more RimCount.com

Adding comments to my blog

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Unless you’re reading this posting via Facebook, you may have noticed that you now have to sign in to add comments to my blog postings. I tried to resist as long as possible, but the signal to noise ratio was getting too high for me whenever I had to approve comments. I could have add… Continue Reading Adding comments to my blog

Updated URL

Friday, February 12th, 2010

I changed the URL of my blog! It all started with mattclare.ca/wordpress because that’s the software I chose to use to use back when I wanted to try this blogging thing out in 2004.  Shortly after that I regretted the choice (or lack there of) of the url mattclare.ca/wordpress.  A much better choice would have… Continue Reading Updated URL

2009 at mattclare.ca

Monday, January 4th, 2010

As well as getting a new look on the main mattclare.ca address in 2008 I typed a lot of words that made it to mattclare.ca. Here’s what they looked like in a Wordle word cloud. An of course this year I finally transitioned from making fun of Twitter to contributing to it, here’s what that… Continue Reading 2009 at mattclare.ca