Friday - August 10, 2007Please Don't Trip Over the Boxes and Packing TapeIf you're subscribing to WoT via an RSS feed, please take note. I've finally had it up to the proverbial "here" with using a blogging system that is basically the work of one developer. Don't get me wrong: for a single-developer program, it's been a nice little workhorse. But it's time to change. I've actually been exploring options since early on, but the amount of programming knowledge necessary in the early days was just too overwhelming for me when I started, and I really liked the option of having a desktop-client composing and uploading system, so the easier web-based systems such as Blogger weren't giving me what I wanted. Translation of old posts to a new system has also been an issue. I'm not about to can all of the work I've put into this site over the years. And yet, when you are using a single-developer program with a limited following, the translation services just don't cut it, if they exist at all. So I have recreated the last several posts at a new, but familiar location - www.writingortyping.com/blog. Archives to the old iBlog site are available in the archive page and on the sidebar. The homepage will soon redirect to the /blog subdomain. For anyone using an rss feed, you can either resubscribe or edit your current subscription* to point to: http://writingortyping.com/blog/feed/ Anyway, welcome to the new place. Hope you like it. *For those of you who have mentioned to me that Bloglines is publishing WoT in Asian ideographs, this should also solve that problem. Sunday - July 15, 2007Technical AnnouncementIf you're reading WoT through an RSS reader, you're not getting paragraph breaks or photos. It's something to do with the new version of my blogging software - apologies, but if you want more white space and cute cats, you're going to have to click through. Wednesday - July 20, 2005Not Trying to be Coy or Anything......But my past history has caused me of
being wary of making premature
announcements.
The announcement is that I do now have a job. Big sigh of relief. I shall not blog about the job, other than the fact that I have it, I am in it, and I am currently traveling to support it (hence the incommunicado). I need to see how the new schedule shakes out in order to fit in my usual musings. Some alterations are just about inevitable. Thank you for your kindness, your patience, and your support throughout the last year and a half. And thank you for checking in. Sunday - July 17, 2005Dear Readers:The 18th of this month through the 22nd
will likely be insanely erratic. Our Heroine's post-on-time-by-9-AM rule will
likely be shattered to smithereens for the week. I apologize in advance, will
post when I can, and beg your sympathetic indulgence. All is well, just
hectic.
Thanking you in advance for your anticipated cooperation - Jill Thursday - July 07, 2005New GigHey all - I have an essay up at Yogalila! Read it and... well,
learn?
Tuesday - July 05, 2005Oh, Heck Yeah."If, as you live your life, you find yourself mentally
composing blog entries about it, post this exact same sentence in your
weblog."
I still want one of those "I'm Blogging This" tee-shirts. Friday - July 01, 2005Bad Blogger, No BiscuitJohn has car troubles this morning, so I
am off to take him to the dealer. Hence, no essay. Have a great Fourth of July
weekend, all.
Wednesday - June 29, 2005Whoopeee!John is still a straight-A student!
Congratulations, my darling!
Thursday - June 16, 2005Monday - June 13, 2005Thought for TuesdayNo essay for Tuesday, just this
thought:
I watched Pierce Brosnan on "Inside the Actors Studio." James Lipton asked him to say, "Bond... James Bond." Brosnan did, with a bit of discussion as to the various ways you can play it, the pauses and intonations. How on Earth did Lipton not ask the question I have always wanted to know the answer to? I have always wanted to know about the first time an actor says that line with the cameras rolling. Doesn't he succumb to a complete fit of laughter saying those words? Wouldn't you? Friday - June 10, 2005From the "Better than Nothing" FileSince the photographer is not sending me digital
files, I went to Kinko's and scanned the physical copies I have. Despite
body-image issues, I am actually pretty happy about the poses themselves, so up
they go on the
Internet.
Thumbnail of toes: 
Thumbnail of fingers: 
Monday - May 30, 2005Memorial Day Gardening ExtraThe "Back 40" - where the sun-loving
plants like to hang out:
The herb garden:  A hanging garden, study in scarlet: 
Lavender plants. Also, Henry the cement turtle: 
Monday - May 30, 2005GlorpWe visited the National Arboretum
yesterday. The koi just inside proved to be very popular with my fish-loving
husband.
  
The little ones proved far more adept at glorping up pellets than the big ones,
which made me wonder how the big ones stay big. (In case anyone is worried, we
were feeding them the Arboretum-approved fish food.)Tuesday - May 17, 2005Hanging from the Monkey BarsFirst off,
Happy Birthday
TIM!!! It's been - what - 28, 29
years since third grade? We have much better
superheroes
now than we did back then - wanna come over? I'll be
Fray
- who do you want to play?
Monday - May 02, 2005My Husband Likes the ExtrasAnd because he likes them I bring you
one to honor Mr. Scalzi, who loves his wife very much
indeed.
Is it too smug to say I have similar good fortune to Mrs. Scalzi's? If it is, I don't care. Monday - April 25, 2005Sorry, Folks.Client demands and Mom's visit meant no
post today. Bad blogger.
Thursday - March 10, 2005Impulse Control Department, How Can I Help You?Does anyone else want to hoot out the
names of these PEN/Faulkner finalists just to hear the funky
sounds?
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Dandicat War Trash by Ha Jin The Green Lantern by Jerome Charyn No? Just me? I thought so. ::sigh:: ::hee:: Friday - February 25, 2005A Random Thing So Good it Deserves to be an ExtraAn article that has accurately cataloged
every single instance of irritating e-commerce web
design I have ever come across (and some doozies that I haven't ever
seen before).
Wednesday - January 19, 2005WoTs of WhimsyOver there on the right hand side of the
site, WoT now has a branded commercial venture.
It was made far easier (and way snazzier in terms of image quality) through the fine efforts of Brad, Design Guru Kansas City. Thanks, Brad! Sunday - January 16, 2005Not Exactly the Dream that the Good Doctor was Referring toDr. King had a dream. It was a glorious
dream, set like a jewel into the setting of a stirring
speech.
There is also "The American Dream," a phrase often used to describe home-ownership. On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day this year, we will be helping our friend Melanie move into her new home - the first she has owned. We all have our dreams. I will be reserving some time to consider mine on January 17. I would encourage my readers to grant themselves the same gift. |