Once you start blogging, people (hopefully) start reading and subscribing, but then they notice when you haven’t posted in a while. Last week at Postini’s board meeting, David Cowan mentioned to me that he hadn’t seen much activity on McInblog recently. While I’ve actually posted several times in the past few weeks, he is right that I’ve slowed down a bit lately.

I caught up on David’s blog after the board meeting and smiled as I read his confession that he is a grammar nerd. I suffer from the same affliction. Since I’m now mindful of upping my activity here, I’m not above recycling an old post called Grammar Crime that I’m sure at least one of my readers will enjoy. Ironic grammar nerds, untie!

Ah, pickles. I’m a big fan. After unfocused yet exhaustive research, I’ve decided that my favorite brand of jarred pickles is Kruegermann Frischgurken – Fresh Pack Pickles. Perhaps it my German heritage or my repeated ingestion of German foods since the womb, but I fancy a pickled vegetable of all sorts, be it cabbage, ginger, or cucumber. Kohl, Ingwer oder Gurken. And I’d be remiss if I did not mention Rotkohl and good ol’ Sauerkraut. If you live on the Peninsula, you can get the pickles at the Schaub’s in the Stanford Shopping Center, or online at the Bavaria Sausage Shop.

Technorati Tags: Epicurean, Gourmet, Pickles, WAG

Clearly I am biased, but if you’ve got a gadget-lover on your holiday gift list, you really ought to consider buying them a Slingbox. Watching my TiVo while at the office, in a coffee shop or on the road is still amazingly cool to me, even though I’ve been doing it for months now. I came across an incredibly good in-depth review of the Slingbox today by Matt Whitlock which I discovered while browsing my Technorati watchlist that keeps track of mentions of the Slingbox out in the blogosphere.