Category: General

I really have to watch this, I don’t want to end up doing one of these every day, but today’s Wednesday Whine from Obiter Dicta was too good to pass up…

I’ve got a secret… I’ve got a secret… I’m going to finally have a photolog! Jennifer made the mistake of mentioning that, as a non-working mom right now, she was feeling a bit unneeded. She missed the challenge of a project. I knew that she had helped others in the past with their photologs, and so I called on her for her programming talents and help setting it up. Then I realized two things: (1) I have NO time right now to create a design; (2) I have NO creative juices left in me after all of the proposals I have been working on. I am all about the functionality of a site lately. So when she offered her design talents – I jumped at the chance!

This morning she sent me “mock-ups” for the layout. I was looking through them … “Oh, that looks good.” “Oh, coooool…” (See, I did give her a lot of feedback on how I saw things working – probably too much! – and I could see those things taking shape, blending with her ideas – it was COOL!) Then … I opened the last mock-up. BAM! That was it. That was the one. I called Kymberlie over right away to come see them, and she agreed immediately. Her response was actually, “I want one!” With a minor font change, we had struck gold on the first shot. I am so excited it’s all I could talk about most of the day! I showed it to people here at the office – had to get other feedback on the two different font options – but for now, I am keeping it under wraps. My little secret treasure, soon to be unveiled!

So Jennifer, if you had ANY doubts about how impressed I was with the designs, put them to rest. I *LOVE* it and am so excited about putting it to good use! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

First I thought it seemed quite odd to see the International Atomic Energy Agency in my referer log file. Twice. Then I realized that my mother’s third cousin, Thomas is from Austria, and used to live in Vienna (or Wien if you actually live in Austria) and maybe it’s him? (He lives in Finland last I heard, but I don’t know who he works for now) Thomas? Is that you?

Yes, I always get curious about that sort of thing. And considering my how many relatives I have on my mother’s side of my family in Austria… well, it makes me even more curious!

After a little tweaking of the skins, Well, Slap Me Silly! has been converted to MovableType! There is still a little work to do (I am sure there are buttons that say Greymatter and not every link is working right) but for now – it’s live! I will be sending all of the current participants an e-mail with the login information. Anyone else want to participate? Just let me know!

If you have a weblog and are not using a system such as Greymatter or MovableType that includes a comment feature, you might want to check out YACCS: Commentting made simple. “It’s a service that allows you to place a comments section on your weblog (weblogs are web sites that are updated on a regular basis). It’s very easy to set up and use; you don’t need a server that supports cgi or php, you don’t need to upload any files to your server, and you don’t need to know any programming languages.” If you are wondering how it works – All you have to do is Sign Up, tell us what you want your comments box to look like, and insert two lines of code into your blogger template.

I haven’t looked around it much, and I have never used Radio 8.0, but I would think it would work there too? I just enjoy the comments feature and it drives me crazy when I want to leave a comment on a post and I can’t! Come on, you know you want to hear what I have to say!