Sunday (the Sunday Star Times’ magazine which isn’t online) doesn’t have a very high opinion of bloggers.
Its Hot List includes a Hot Blogger and says:
It’s hard work finding a New Zealand blogger who isn’t boring or scary or just so relentlessly right wing we’d rather go baby seel seal shootin’ with Sarah Palin than read another post.
Where would you start in countering all that?
But one slow afternoon we happened upon Ally Mullord. She’s in a brass bad. She’s also in advertising. Her best (and original) blog, at terriblyexciting.blogspot.com, is snappy, and smart and covers things relevant to our interests, such as silly games to play in the car and how mess-up it is that strawberries aren’t technically berries. Last year she was nominated for a Bloggie, which is a very big deal – an Oscar for bloggers. Mullord’s second-best blog lives on the 3News site and is much more suitable for reading at work. . .
Catherine Woulfe, who award the hot spot to the blog, which might be better known as Today is My Birthday, also gave honourable mentions to Ben Gracewood at ben.geek.nz, Hussein Moses at theconrner.co.nz and Stephen Stratford for Quote Unquote.
Homepaddock 
MSM getting it wrong as usual.
One uses a club when slaughtering baby seals.
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What are seels?
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And what’s a ‘sarah palin’.
Some sort of marine animal also?
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In my mind’s eye though, I see turkeys!
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Oswald – and some journalists use any weapon to take cheap shots at their bête noire.
Madeleine – Seels are something which people prone to typos find difficult to spot.
Robert – a land mammal rather than a marine one but not usually sporting feathers.
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HP – how do youdo that `thingy’ above the e in bete? Do you have a special keyboard?
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It’s all in the way you hold your tonguê.
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Oh, touché Robert.
pdm, there are a few ways of doing this.
Obviously, Robert’s method is the first way.
Another method for Windows users is to bring up the Character Map tool in Windows.
(Start | All Programs | Accessories | System Tools | Character Map) or Search for it it Windows 7.
Hint: When you find it, right click and pin it to your start menu or make a shortcut.
Then find the letter you want, and use the copy button to copy to clipboard and paste it into your text.
You’ll see a few different fonts in the list. The standard internet favourites like Arial, Tahoma and Verdana generally have the range you would need.
It’s fairly easy when you have done it a couple of times. There are also free plugins for Firefox to bring up the character map or type a keyboard combination as per Microsoft’s Keyboard Shortcuts; I haven’t found a good one (works consistently) though.
There are also HTML codes you can use, but that still requires looking at a reference chart, so you may as well use a character map tool.
Let me know if that works.
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PDM – I copied (ctrl c) and pasted (ctrl v) it. A friend sent me this link
http://www.tomisimo.org/accents which is supposed to do the same thing Zen explains but I couldn’t get it to work (that’s probably a reflection on me not the link).
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