I've been working on a mobile site for my company, and that means lots of reading books and lots of testing the site in various mobile browsers. Of course, I own a little pay-as-you-go phone that I don't connect to the internet with, so testing has been difficult. …

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The bulk of my Halloween postage is up on my smart car blog:
http://lovemysmartcar.com/2009/its-a-martha-stewart-halloween-smart-car/

There are pictures of my smart car in her devil costume, me in my kitty costume, a DIY guide to making a Halloween wreath, and more!

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I've been sick since... Saturday morning. My employer tried to insist I take time off, but we've got a big release coming up, and I wanted to get it out the door ASAP since most of it is my work, stripping down the junked up old code into shiny, lean semantic stuff, …

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I haven't slept enough for the past two weeks. Sleeping in this morning felt heavenly.

I really wish I could travel back to my mom's home in the mountains this weekend, but everything is still in boxes, and my closet and bathroom are wrecks. Plus, I am poor from all the …

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Last Tuesday I had to stay home from work after staying up late painting in closets made me nauseated. And this morning, although all I painted yesterday was my chalkboard accent wall of awesome, I woke up unable to focus my eyes, with hot sticky skin and feeling like I …

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We've moved into the house. I'm so glad I stayed up till midnight, 2, even 4 in the morning to finish painting our bedroom and my home office. Sadly, I was unable to finish my home office before moving, for no matter how fast I painted, the chalkboard paint for my …

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Check it out: http://blog.cagle.com/jones/2009/09/12/obama-health-care-and-me/

Confirms my suspicions that most full-time freelance artists get their insurance through a spouse.

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We closed on the house on the 10th. I tidied up all my personal projects prior to closing braced for it: nonstop painting.

Joe is working on fixing everything else that is wrong with the new house. My job is solely to paint our bedroom and my office. Oh, and their …

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I wish more people understood my Jaw Problem.

Since my Quest for a Jaw That Works began in March 2008 (with much thanks to my closest friends for pushing me and the charity along--I'm much too proud to have done this without much coaxing), I have had to relate so many …

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I'm sorry I've been missing in action lately. Last you heard, I up-and-got-married, didn't I? Well, there's a reason. Several. One of which was that my budgie Tenno got sick, and I had to rush him back and forth to the vet so they could operate on his little feeties …

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I recently indulged in a little long-awaited creative fun times by making a new background for my Twitter account. (If you have a small computer screen, the full version can be found on my Deviant Art.)

I also posted an article about Twitter on my web design blog.

So does …

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NYC Cravings
A coworker of mine went up to New York City this weekend for fun times with friends. It's gotten me all wistful about the big city and my friends there. I want to go back again.

Doctor and Surgeon Visits
You know, corporate jobs are supposed to mean steady …

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Hey there. I know you haven't heard much from me recently. I'm finally starting to feel settled in my new job. I'm going on my fourth month there, and I still have a nice head of steam. My coworkers are the nicest people I've ever worked with, and I'm very happy to be …

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Woo, my latest article about usability, specifically Better User Orientation Through Navigation, went live on UXBooth today. If you do web design, please have a look and let me know what you think! (There's a comic in it, to boot!)

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I've always fancied myself immune to most types of rejection. Rejection letters, negative critiques, dismissals, none of that ever really seems to stop me, or not for long. Like a zombie shot in the chest with a bullet, I just get back up and keep pressing forward. But …

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This Easter Sunday, while everyone is gorging on chocolate and making forays into that thing we know as "sunshine", I'm in the kitchen with a great big steaming pot of black. Yep, it's the Blackening season.

What I'm doing is re-dyeing all my black spring/summer clothes, …

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They gave us Good Friday off from work. And I've decided to spend mine sitting in, you guessed it, a coffee shop. And I'm, you guessed it again, still working on sites. But this time, these are my own projects.

Increasingly, I'm having trouble with clothes. I've been …

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Just a heads up to all the comickers and artistes out there, Rivkah's posted a fantastic consumer report on inks:

http://lilrivkah.livejournal.com/280726.html

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You probably know by now that I'm a huge fan of Paula Begoun, aka "The Cosmetics Cop," for her analytical and scientific approach to cosmetics and skin care and their respective industries. Now, when I say she has a "scientific approach," I don't mean she talks about …

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Edit (or, before you use the word "bandwidth")
I've said this before, but the bandwidth is not a problem. It's the RAM usage and resources that cost money. Every time we display a banner hosted via Rubifruit, our server has to make a calculation. That calculation takes …

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