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Comment on Unofficial Melamine Contaminated Food List [Nov 18] by Julie

Julie — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:31:57 +0000

Dreyer’s ice cream is sold as Edy’s on the East Coast. Dreyers is an old brand, based in Oakland, California (just across the Bay from San Francisco). As I understand it, when they expanded eastward and encountered Breyer’s, they changed the name to Edy’s to minimize confusion, but continued as Dreyer’s in California. Then, just a few years ago, Breyer’s expanded to the West Coast, nullifying the difference. At one time, Dreyer’s was definitely a premium brand, although I’m not convinced that it has remained so, and, sadly, the phrase “ice cream” has disappeared from most “Dreyer’s Grand” products.

I have never seen Dreyer’s cake mix, but they make a wide range of ice-cream type products. You can get more info here: http://www.dreyers.com

Comment on Unofficial Melamine Contaminated Food List [Nov 18] by Bdave

Bdave — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:45:21 +0000

Dreyers is a brand of ice cream. We have it here in Texas but I think they are based in the east.

Comment on Want Free Long Distance Calls Across Canada? by CreativeHerb

CreativeHerb — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:47:31 +0000

Long distance charges would still apply to a cell phone, though you can always hook an Iphone up to a Voip App to get around it. Especially if you have 3G unlimited data transfer. Haven’t tried Voip on the iphone yet though, I’m more of a net person than a phone person.

Comment on Want Free Long Distance Calls Across Canada? by Mark

Mark — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:23:23 +0000

Very interesting. However, with cell phones, long distance calling is becoming less and less of an issue, eh?

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Comment on Google Reveals PageRank Secrets by Mark

Mark — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:02:54 +0000

I\’ve been doing a lot of research into pagerank and google’s SEO process as well but I never knew that if you don’t have control of the bad links coming to your site, it won’t hurt you as much.

Thanks for the info

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Comment on Google Flu Trends Canadian Edition by CreativeHerb

CreativeHerb — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:55:17 +0000

Thanks Mark! This is actually version 2 of what I originally planned. I spent a few hours trying to do some crazy data mashups in Yahoo Pipes with charts created through Google Chart API. Then got stuck due to a limit of functionality in Yahoo Pipes. Could still do it but would take another few hours at least.

So I went with this version 2 which took me only about 1/3 of the time than I did with version 1. Still turned out pretty informational I think.

Comment on Google Flu Trends Canadian Edition by Mark

Mark — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:50:08 +0000

Very interesting post. Just wondering, how long did this take to make?

And very nice, clean blog you got here

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Comment on Unofficial Melamine Contaminated Food List [Nov 18] by CreativeHerb

CreativeHerb — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:15:37 +0000

@Walking Turtle: Thank you very much for the link luving. I completely agree with you about the more condensed URL, hence I changed my wordpress configuration to have only the postname after my domain name, without the dates. I do try to keep the URL string as concise as possible and hopefully the updated one will work well. Thanks again!

Comment on New Macbook VS hybrid tablet PC Notebook by Andrea_R

Andrea_R — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:57:58 +0000

Well, yes you ARE nuts, but we <3 you anyway.
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Comment on Unofficial Melamine Contaminated Food List [Nov 18] by Walking Turtle

Walking Turtle — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:05:00 +0000

CreativeHerb: Thanks for your thoughtful clarification. Looks like Nestle is in the deep schmelly-brown end of things ‘way up past their corporate eyeballs, does it not?

The “Edy’s” brand is indeed sold in my locale. Um, one need not /necessarily/ presuppose that Edy’s and Dreyer’s be the same confection from the same Chinese producer, only packed in identically dimensioned cartons with Different Ink, now, need one?

Better safe than sorry on this one, I reckon. I think I shall just keep on making my own yogurt too. American handmade goods are still the best choice; always were in these parts to begin with.

Item: http://www.tinyurl.com/melamine-list-url is now operable and MUCH easier to just spit out across the corner convenience store’s counter than the blog’s as-issued url-string. (Quote it at all times with my blessing.) I think others will do well to keep that idea rolling, too, fwiw.

I’ve bookmarked and forwarded this blog’s URL (and the TinyURL’d version) to roughly a dozen loved ones and friends thus far. Thanks again.