PBS Parents has redesigned its web site. Big news? I dunno. Just thought it was interesting. I am impressed by the orange; it woke me up this morning.
A couple of areas do appear to be interesting: 1. The Guide to Understanding and Raising Girls section (it’s grape!!!!), and 2. Talking with Kids (more grape!!!!), providing [...]
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PBS redesigns parents Web site
Offline woes a problem of our Web host
Watching Live Free or Die Hard this weekend, made me think that our blog was under cyber attack as it was a few days ago. But it turns out our web host has been having server problems.
JaguarPC has generally been reliable - we’ve been using them as hosts since 2005. But we haven’t been too [...]
Mischief managed
A few people mentioned there were some issues with Ramblin’ Prose today such as the continue link wasn’t working, comments weren’t working, etc., and everything was going to 404 page.
After a little investigation, I noticed some additions in some of my template files that were not done by me. Also, my theme had broken.
So, after [...]
A different kind of Web site
Okay, the banner ad and the name got me there: Unscrew America. There’s a whole lotta double entendre there. You might be surprised by the backers.
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“La Di Da Di”
We like to party. With great deals.
Slickdeals.net has deals. I need to spend some time checking them out
Anybody using Slickdeals.net? It seems to be really popular, on an uptick.
What did you get out of it?
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Kids pick up where harried adults leave off
MediaPost Publications - Study: Kids Are Master Multitaskers On TV, Web, Mobile
TELEVISION IS NO LONGER GETTING the undivided attention of kids, according to a study released today on social networking by Grunwald Associates LLC, an independent research firm that specializes in new media market intelligence.
About 64% of kids go online while watching television, and nearly [...]
Blogginghood
A benefit of having a dog is getting out and walking which leads to meeting your neighbors which leads to finding out interesting tidbits about the people in your ‘hood. The other evening, I was out walking Pip and ran into Joe.
That makes four bloggers in the ‘hood that I know of now.
And it tells [...]
Hyper-local
Chicagocrime.org has gone the way of the dinosaur. Sadly, it was old technology that did it in. But it’s been reborn, bigger and better.
Introducing EveryBlock / The EveryBlock Blog
“Whats happening in my neighborhood?”
For a long time, thats been a tough question to answer. In dense, bustling cities like Chicago, New York and San Francisco, the [...]
Spiders on your brain
Can a blog post have a life cycle? Some folks think so.
The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits — to You
You have a blog. You compose a new post. You click Publish and lean back to admire your work. Imperceptibly and all but instantaneously, your post slips into a [...]
Sun buying “My”SQL
PC World - Business Center: MySQL: Sun’s Billion-Dollar Baby
Sun put its money where its mouth is Wednesday, with the announcement that it would buy open source database vendor MySQL for a whopping $1 billion.
If the price tag set tongues wagging, however, it was no more tantalizing than the question that immediately sprung to the minds [...]
Needed: Good 12-step program
Susan is addicted to Solitaire.
She plays it online.
She plays it on the Palm I gave her.
She was up the other night until 2 a.m. playing.
She plays at any given free moment.
We need an intervention.
She did say she was going to blog more didn’t she?
She hasn’t even posted about the death of her laptop’s hard drive. [...]
Perpetually late gift buying
Always a good last-minute stocking stuffer:
Susan never complains.
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