TJ often shares posts from her RSS feeds via Google Reader. One of my favorites sites that she shares is a site which transcribes overheard conversations in New York. Extremely humorous stuff. In that spirit, I offer a text message exchange between me and my friend (the ironically named) DJ. Backstory: [...]
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WordPress recently introduced a feature that will probably improve your hit count. They are calling it “Possibly Related Posts” and it appears at the bottom of all WordPress posts automatically. (You have to be looking at the permalink version of your post, not the home page version, in order to see it.) This [...]
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For those reading in RSS, here’s my new blog header.
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Today I can only offer you this: “An Engineer’s Guide To Cats”.
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Overheard at McDonalds
Grandma to Grandson: “Someone at church said you might like to try something called Web Kim’s. What is that? Some kind of web camera?”
Woman, explaining: “Webkinz. It’s a website where kids can adopt virtual pets and get stuff for them.”
Grandma: “Ohhh. Like pet rocks?”
Grandson: “Webkinz? My cats are [...]
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Do you have words that you frequently use to mean something other than the generally accepted meaning? You know what I’m talking about. Not pet names or made-up words, but words that mean something to you (or your close friends and family) that an outsider would completely misunderstand? I know you do.
So, [...]
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This is WAY too cool not to post about. For those of you who are fellow bloggers, this is a totally awesome idea. You know how you can rate stuff on Amazon or BestBuy? Well, now you can add a 5-star rating gizmo to all your posts and get immediate feedback from your [...]
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Here’s a little help for my non-artist blogger buddies. Sometimes it’s hard to figure out which colors would look good together when you’re designing something for the web. Well, I found a cool online tool which helps you create color schemes for your website, blog, or any other electronic design that you might [...]
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Well, it’s worth about half of Ratshag’s blog, but still a nice chunk of change. Too bad it’s fake money.
My blog is worth $40,082.34.
How much is your blog worth?
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Just tried to leave a comment on a Blogger blog and, guess what? They’ve once again STOPPED letting non-Blogger accounts log in to comments, like I had reported last month. In fact, you can’t even log in anonymously like you used to be able to. Check out the picture to the right [...]
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