Tattoos
No longer taboo or a mark of deviancy (or motorcycle ownership), tattoos have become a regular part of our modern culture.
Most of us get our tattoos to either memorialize events or people, or to identity a part of ourselves that are usaully within us in a way for …
Hummingbird moth
This evening while watering my front yard, I saw what I first thought was a young hummingbird. But unlike most hummingbirds, it stayed at the flowers as I approached, and even flew around my head. When I got closer, I found it to be a Hyles lineata, or "Hummingbird ...
New communities, old habits
Over on the westXdesign site, I posted an introduction to the social uses of the internet. Sometimes I have a hard time explaining what this 'newness' of community on the web is all about. I forget that very few people started where I did, and all of this is new ...
Dell and XP and Vista .... figures
Over the past 3 weeks, I have bought 3 brand new PCs from Dell. A 17" laptop for my husband, a 15" laptop for me, and a Dimension desktop for my mother in law. And Windows Vista came on all 3. I don't like it, the systems are slower ...
Server Problems - please bear with me!
My host is experiencing some server problems, and as you have noticed, the site has been unavailable off and on for quite some time. I am hoping to have this resolved very very soon, so PLEASE bear with me. The host is hoping to have all reliability restored. I've been ...
feeling the love...
I feel like a proud parent all over again.
Because of discussions at certain social web sites and this blog, along with the westXdesign blog, I have seen the following over the past few weeks:
A writer friend set up his own wordpress installation to host his blog and …
I took the survey
If you work in the web industry, go take the survey. This will be a valuable tool to evaluate and review trends and particpation.
Custom 404 error - too funny not to share
This 404 page is just too funny not to share it with you:
This page cannot be displayed because you need some fresh air.
The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. Your ISP has told us ...
Writer Update
After posting the previous entry via Windows Live Writer:
Negative:
Key words did not integrate into my current keywords
Because no key words, related posts aren't generated
Technorati links aren't generated, again because of the keywords don't jive with what I …
Windows Live Writer
I just installed the beta of Windows Live Writer on my XP desktop. After reviewing it, I thought I'd give it a try. Running a program on my PC in order to post to my blogs seems a little contradictory to me, but on the other hand, I usually ...
Shining Star
This weekend was the 1st Shining Star Motorcycle Rally in Fort Stockton. Named after a Texas YES! designation the city received, the rally hoped to raise money for various community groups. The group that organized the rally wanted to incorporate the honor of being a …
The Great Migration is Now Complete
I have slept for 2-3 hours per night, each night, all week. Because of some persistent server problems, which I couldn't be reassured that they would not keep happening as they had for the past few weeks, I moved all of my sites and clients to new servers.
All 34 of ...
Viralink
While surfing, I came across this interesting way to build cross-links to your site. I think this is a much better plan than others I have seen (and refuse to participate in!). This is less obtrusive, doesn't require any special accounts or javascript, and I have more …
Another Live Writer Update
It's been quite some time since I have posted to either of my blogs, and while I have plenty of excuses, I won't bore you with any of them. Somerset Bob poked me with a sharp stick and I thank him tremendously for it. I need to get back ...
Another link-building idea for bloggers
Moments after my previous post about viralinks, I received a comment from Culture Shiok! with information about another viral linking system. Here is the tag-based link matrix and instructions:
Instructions:
1.) Copy and paste the matrix of ViralTags
UFOs in MY hometown?
I was goofing around and somehow, don't know exactly how, but somehow, I came across this page about a UFO sighting in Fort Stockton in 1972, complete with mockups of what was seen. I couldn't help myself, I had to look, and here's what I saw:
Okay. Gee, that ...
Blogging from IM
Using an IMified widget, it's possible to post to your Wordpress blogs via your instant messenging client. I typically use Meebo, and don't IM 'on the road', so I'm not sure this is an awesome find, but I do occasionally use Mundu away from home on my Palm, and since ...
Quote me....
Every now and then I come across a quote that makes me want to shout "OH YEAH". I'll start sharing them. Today's quote is attributed to Edward Murrow, host of This I Believe in the 1950s:
A nation of sheep begets a government of wolves.
I couldn't fine much to …