Yesterday, I went to my grandparents’ house. My grandmother is recovering from cancer surgery (doing well). A cousin we don’t see often (military brat, now settled in Texas) came up to help her recover. We were all concerned that Wendy would be an extra burden that Mother doesn’t need right now. Instead, she’s bullying Mother [...]
You guys probably think I never work from all of the games I have Make-a-Flake(Flash) simulates cutting folded paper with scissors. It lets you save the results and has a huge gallery.
It’s like I have a reading disorder. I haven’t read that much in months but in the last 4 days I’ve gone through three books and started a fourth. I’ve also got an order in with Amazon.
Killer Hair is about a fashion columnist in Washington D.C. The setting is interesting and the main character [...]
Linux News: Commentary: Macs Are More Expensive, Right?
So, bottom line, are PCs cheaper than Macs? No, despite what you read in the PC press, it’s the other way around. Compare Apples to apples, and Macs are cheaper than PCs.
There’s a site, WordPress Styles, that indexes templates for Wordpress, the system I’m currently using to manage this site.
The cool thing is that they’re “plug ‘n play”. You just install the files and automagically your blog has a different look, no customization needed. Also, the styles listed are all beautiful and useable.
Anyway, a while [...]
The books: Undead and Unwed and Undead and Unemployed by Mary Janice Davidson. And seriously, if you enjoy a) chick lit or b) vampires or c) all of the above, please go and buy them. You’ll thank me. Rarely have I read a series – chick lit or vampire – that has captivated me so [...]
Debra’s evil twin.
Except it was a foot rub.
Boing Boing: Movie theater repurposed as Xbox arcade
Theater managers took four video projectors, set one up in each of four theaters with a Microsoft XBox video game system connected to it, and then let the fun begin for more than 60 people
This would be so cool.
Boing Boing: You don’t own your iTunes, they 0wn you
Good blog post on why Apple iTunes DRM — and other DRM systems — that convey the message “you don’t own the music you buy, you merely license it,” make for such unsatisfying experiences.
This is why, as reasonable as the terms seem, I’m not buying from [...]
Bloug Entry (Aug 17, 2004):Information Architecture Heuristics
Every information architect should always have a set of favorite questions in their back pocket; they really do come in handy.
I went to a 6th birthday party on Saturday for one of my cousins. It’s interesting when you look up and there it is.
look! cute little kittens! blogjam random kitten generator
It’s my laptop in a new, better body. If they could figure out how to make it work for humans they could make a mint.
Sky Blue: Fair, Artistic, Compassionate
You are an instrument of light and love. You are highly principled with a refined nature and anything that is crude or base is antagonistic to your system. You have a strong sense of fair play and find it difficault to associate with people who are unscrupulous. Whether you are viewing [...]
My laptop is here. And it is sooo pretty. The pictures don’t do it justice.
I cloned my old laptop to an external hardrive in preparation for switching, thinking that I would selectively copy the files I needed onto the new one. But when I booted it up, there was a copy option that let [...]
Evernote Cookbook