I've re-enabled the option to require valid e-mail addresses from commenters, so if you've already been approved as a commenter via TypeKey but haven't provided an e-mail address, you may be asked to enter one....
February 3, 2006
OK, so here's where I admit that I occasionally do wish that I were one of the Cool Kids. Most of the time I'm like, "yeah, I know the cool kids, but I don't hang out with them. Because, you know, I've got my own stuff to do," but lately several of my favorite blogs have all been doing the Four Things Meme, and I confess I was feeling a little left out. Although no one's technically tagged me,...
January 6, 2006
I love visiting Derek's site because in addition to great writing, great photographs, and great links, This Is Powazek is also full of great ideas. Today's interesting idea: create a mosaic of photos from your Flickr stream (or your favorites list, or any other photos on the web). I've used Picasa2's Collage feature to create mosaics before (most notably the one commemorating Austen's first year), so the mosaic part isn't the great idea. It's that Derek chose to make...
October 18, 2005
I'm finding a lot of hilarious (and not-so-hilarious) stuff in my referrer logs. It turns out like a third of my traffic is from people linking directly to the Red Sox logo (and by directly, I mean including the actual image in their pages with an http link, not linking to the post), which irritated me enough to turn off hotlinking of images. Let me know if this interferes with your ability to see any images in their proper...
October 11, 2005
I almost called this a gratuitous baby photo post (a phrase stolen from ratphooey), but really it's more of a gratuitous site plug that just happens to be on a baby....
October 6, 2005
I'm going to try this: Instead of writing in the little book beside my bed each night what we did that day, I'm going to write what we did tomorrow!...
September 30, 2005
So Derek had an interesting post on his site recently about the importance of putting something at the bottom of your pages to reward those dedicated souls who actually read all the way down. I hadn't thought specifically of adding the kind of bottom navigation/highlights section that Derek does, but I did give some consideration to those who read down when I redesigned my site recently. It's why the archives are listed near the bottom of the sidebar (so...
September 21, 2005
I have so many things I want to blog about that there's a sort of logjam in my brain. It's kind of like how when I have a ton of things to do, I often get completely overwhelmed with the length of my To Do list and end up doing nothing. In college I combatted this tendency to become overwhelmed and just go back to bed by scheduling my days in 15-minute increments so I could see that it...
July 20, 2005
This whole nanny blog thing just creeps me out. (The nanny in question's actual blog is here.) Possibly because I had a dodgy babysitter experience; possibly because another potential babysitter happened to include her blog link in e-mail correspondence, and I had to fight not to be unnerved by what I read; or possibly because I myself am a regular blogger (and I've posted about the vomitous feeling the dodgy babysitter inspired), I've been thinking a lot about the...
July 4, 2005
May 26, 2005
While vacuuming the kitchen this morning, I got the cord to the vacuum wrapped around my Loobylu mug and yanked it to the hard, tile floor. Needless to say, it shattered. :( The mug had been fading for months, thanks to our overzealous dishwasher, but I was still very much attached to this mug. It captured a moment in time, a moment when I was just starting to read other blogs. Loobylu was among the first of my daily...
March 5, 2005
Christo's Gates may have come down in Central Park, but I've put the photos we took of them up at ~ lori and al ~....
January 31, 2005
Last night I had my third dream about Dooce. In addition to the girls' night out dream I had a couple weeks ago, I have also dreamed: That my friend Heather introduced me to Dooce, and Dooce replied, "are you the one who sends me all those dorky e-mails?" That Dooce, Jon, and I were nightclub-hopping in Minneapolis (how we came to be there I don't know, since the Armstrongs live in Salt Lake City and I live in...
October 26, 2004
A few random items: dj blurb opened up comments on his endorsement post, and I loved reading all most of the different points of view. (Most—but not all—commenters support Kerry, but whom each person supports not as interesting as why.) Al and I start childbirth classes tonight. This week's pregnancy newsletter from ParentsPlace.com seemed to suggest that I'd be nervous about the birth by now, but for some reason I'm not. I am loving The Price of Loyalty: George...
October 14, 2004
Not that anyone ever reads it (except you, Hoche!), but I've finally converted the 255 Characters or Less blog to Movable Type—which means I can update it with random small thoughts again. (It used to be in Blogger, and the fact that my server supports neither FTP nor SFTP prevented me from updating it regularly since I had to add entries by hand.)...
October 8, 2004
This fabulous photo from CuriousLee totally deserves a trackback ping....
October 5, 2004
Just realized I left this on Draft rather than Publish, which is why it's showing up suddenly between the pink ribbon post and the one on the vice presidential debate... This morning I got over my in-person shyness (I'm fine over e-mail, but dialing telephones and meeting people in person sometimes scare the shit out of me) and actually called my new neighbor Jim Capozzolla, of the Rittenhouse Review. Of course, I then went on to embarrass myself completely...
August 23, 2004
My husband is no fan of blogs, blogging, or bloggers. He loves me, of course, but he tries to forget that I blog. Despite this aversion to blogging—and because of the connection I feel to certain bloggers and their chosen subjects, and my penchant for telling him what I read that day—he knows who Mightygirl, Defective Yeti, Chez Miscarriage Woman, and Rittenhouse Guy are. Ladies and gentlemen, Rittenhouse Guy has moved into the neighborhood. He's literally right around the...
August 19, 2003
Why I love dooce. Stick with it til the end (and don't skip anything!): the rambling is totally worth it....
May 20, 2003
Just read the NYT article that dooce referred to in her latest post. I asked Al once if he minded that I blogged about our activities, or described conversations we had, or attributed thoughts to him (mostly on "our" site rather than this one). He basically responded that he doesn't necessarily *enjoy* it, but he knows it makes me happy to write about whatever's on my mind, and he's happy that I'm happy. That he tolerates it is all...
April 24, 2003
I love the misuse of the quotation marks on the hand-written sign: http://www.cbc.ca/news/sars/index.html (Link courtesy of LaLaLand.) Do you ever read a blog and assume the gender of the writer (because there is no about page, or because the about page is ambiguous, or because the about page is too hard to find, or because you're too lazy to read the about page), only to find out later that you were wrong? I do....
March 24, 2003
My list of regularly-read weblogs is growing. Found another woman out there who's on the fence about the war too, for similar reasons. (She's also just plain neat.) She had a link on her site to an interesting article about a guy who went to Iraq to become a human shield without really understanding what he was doing. This, at the same time that I've lost any sympathy I might have had for anti-war protestors in San Francisco. It...