Braille instructions

At my other blog, the site meter has tagged several hits recently at my blog entry on braille instructions in the ladies room changing table at Caribou Coffee. I reread it, and thought it was worth reposting here at Coffee Spills.

Conover Coffees & Chocolates

Today I tried a new coffee shop here in Oregon, Illinois--same type as the Chocolate Cafe near Port Clinton, Ohio. Conover has a number of small shops (site of an old piano factory on the Rock River) and Kim Boyden of Byron opened her coffee shop about 5 months ago. We stopped in this morning.

When you see a stranger

While on a walk the other day I noticed a man getting into a car who looked familiar. He stopped to chat--seemed to know me, but I couldn't place him. "So you live here?" he said. Finally, it dawned on me, he's someone I see and talk to regularly at the coffee shop, but out of context I didn't recognize him. He'd dropped off my neighbor whom he'd taken to a doctor's appointment.

Google's new blog finder

Google has a new feature whereby you can find blogs by the bloggers name, or topic. I tried it with my name and then my name + a topic and found it very easy to use. http://blogsearch.google.com. However, it also makes it easier for the blog spammers to be target specific. These are the "Hi, great blog. Come and visit mine on [your topic]. So I'll have to add the stronger filters to the comments. My topical blogs are all getting hit.