http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Neil+Street Entertainment Neil Street Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=113302&ca=Entertainment 2006 was a big year for celebrity baby names, with the likes of Suri, Shiloh, and Jayden James leading the pack. The Celebrity Baby Names Blog, which monitors celebrity baby names on a daily basis, and is the internet’s leading site dedicated to the topic, has created a list of the Ten Most Notable... Parenting Neil Street Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=165112&ca=Parenting Take a glance at a bookstore’s baby names shelf, and you’ll see that Irish baby names are a very popular category. But for many prospective parents, Irish names can be very confusing. Many different races have settled in Ireland over the centuries. Celts, Vikings, Normans, and English have all gone... Parenting Neil Street Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=138196&ca=Parenting A unisex or androgynous name is one which is used by both males and females. Sometimes parents choose a name because they know it’s a unisex name; other times, perhaps more frequently, parents are unaware that their chosen name is also popular with the opposite sex. In some countries, such as Germa... Family Concerns Neil Street Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=121228&ca=Family+Concerns How many times have you heard an expectant Mom or Dad say something like “we’re trying to come up with a unique baby name – you know, something a little different…” Many expectant parents, when they’re trying to choose a baby name, start at that very point. But where does “a little different” end, a... Food and Drinks Neil Street Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=99985&ca=Food+and+Drinks Each year at Thanksgiving, my family discusses what we will make for Thanksgiving dinner. Some of us are traditionalists, who shudder at the thought of anything but turkey with all the trimmings. Others are more adventurous -- especially me, since I did not grow up in the United States and I am not... Society Neil Street Sat, 14 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=92892&ca=Society We often see "top lists" of baby names -- top ten names of 2005, the trendiest, the coolest, the most popular names of the decade -- and so on. Readers find these lists endlessly fascinating, often using such lists to help them choose the name for their own offspring. But now, in what is most likely... Parenting Neil Street Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=82175&ca=Parenting Expecting a baby and looking for one of those cool baby names?. How about the name Emily? If sheer popularity is anything to go by, then Emily is pretty darn cool. In fact, it’s been number one for an amazing ten years. But before you settle on Emily (if you’re looking for a girl’s name), you may wa... Internet Neil Street Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=80425&ca=Internet It’s a fact. The search engines don’t really care about most websites. If the search engines could talk (perish the thought) they’d tell you that for most keywords, only the first page or two of results are really worthwhile. The relevancy drops off very quickly, and the remaining several million we... Parenting Neil Street Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=79853&ca=Parenting Imagine. Your baby, now 4 years old, has just completed her first day at kindergarten. You’re waiting anxiously for the return of the school bus, praying that she enjoyed her first day at school, that everything went well, that she’ll be OK. She gets off the bus. You rush forward to hug her. And she...