Author: Christine

Christine is an Avenger of Sexiness. Her Superpower is helping Hot Mamas grow their Confidence by rediscovering their Beauty. She lives in the Heights in Houston, Texas, works as a boudoir photographer, and writes about running a Business of Awesome. In her spare time, she loves to knit, especially when she travels. She & her husband Mike have a food blog at Spoon & Knife.

Amuse Me

Spork Posse History…

In case you were wondering about my previous “Spork Posse” comment and the whole titanium spork thing, here is the history:

:: Look Mean but be Nice… The original call out for my posse, and my request for a spork. The two were quickly merged in to one.

:: Join the Spork Posse! A button was made for anyone that wanted it, thanks to Jennifer.

:: What The… Lara Flynn Boyle will make you wish you had a spork.

:: At Last… The spork posse made an appearance for the Great Bloggie Debate of 2003 on my site and at Solonor’s.

:: Spork! The amazing DaVinci’s Notebook has a short song dedicated to the spork. I adopted it as the Spork Posse theme song.

There are more posts out there about the Spork Posse, but this is enough to bring you up to speed. Fo shizzle or something like that. Word.

Know the Code

Web Fonts 101…

I’ve been giggling about this all day long, but no one at the office could really “get” it. However, I know you will.

When I first interviewed at the law firm, the attorney I met with (now one of my bosses) told me he is also in charge of the firm website. Uh huh, you can see where this is going, right? Yep, added to my job description of being a paralegal was the fact that I would maintain the website too.

It’s a pretty straightforward website, mainly just HTML with some javascript rollovers for the buttons. Nothing too unusual. However, my boss was convinced that the previous designer was a complete idiot. Simple text changes would take her months.

Anyone involved in web design for awhile knows that there are fonts that you should use for websites – the common fonts that everyone has on their machines. If you use wacky fonts and a visitor doesn’t have them, they won’t see your site as you intended.

However, I really don’t know where she was coming from when she added this font tag on every page of the site:

font face=”Arial,New Font Name,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular”

Errr… can we say someone forgot to clean up their WYSIWYG code? Because in all my years of font addiction (I have tons and tons and tons of fonts), I can guarantee there is NO font named “New Font Name.” I am considering having one made though…

Yes, that is at the top of my list of the code that needs to be cleaned up.

Amuse Me

Just What You Need!

Work got you down? Meeting after boring meeting day in and day out? Or are things driving you mad in the Blogosphere? Too many things going on in life? Well, my friends, I know just what you need …

The Titanium Spork! For the days you need to gouge someone’s eyes out, and a flimsy plastic fork just isn’t good enough! Spork posse! [via Matt]

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What? What Huh?

Every time I see “j.f.m.a.m.j.j.a.s.o.n.d” in the sidebar of a blog, I have to stop and think about what it means. Every time. It takes me a few seconds, because all I see is “Jason” in the middle, and I don’t get what the rest of it is for. Then I finally figure out that it’s the initials of the months. It bugs me.

While I’m talking about what bothers me in sidebars, I hate Zonkboards. I hate them with a passion. They cause such an incredible lag time on sites loading. If you have to use them, could you skin your site and have a “Zonkfree” version? And an RSS feed with comments so I can read your site in NewzCrawler? Pretty please? I love all of you – I just hate the damn Zonkboards.

This post dedicated to Matt, who I made a commitment to, promising I would continue my Zonkfree campaign.

In the News

Not Bad-Ass Enough…

I have no idea how I missed this before, but I find it freakin’ hysterical that the Former Iraqi information officer can’t get arrested. He’s tried to surrender to U.S. forces in Baghdad, but we’ve turned him away. So now he’s living on his aunt’s house. [via Geoffrey]

If that’s not classic news, I don’t know what is.