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March

2008

Bumpy times

I’m going to be installing a new WordPress Theme and then customizing it over the next few days. It may be wacky looking for a bit, but I should have it all settled by the time my week off from blogging is over.

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Crap. I blogged.

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Items I need to fix:

Hostess pic page
RSS information
Change font in navigation buttons
Decide whether or not to keep potentially creepy mosaic pic that seemed better in theory
Twitter formatting
Locate preferred font (LHF Bounce) then redo header
Search function

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February

2008

Yes we can.

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This video warms my old cynical soul. I just want to hug the entire country after it. Especially Scarlett Johansson who looks so frightened when she sings.

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A warm welcome the new folks who’ve been around! Thank you for spending a few minutes of your busy life here with me. You’ll find that I am consistently inconsistent in my thoughts and deeds but at least I’m consistent about posting them all.

Enjoy your day!

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Yes we can.

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January

2008

(but it doesn’t have to be for me)

The Eighth Annual Weblog Awards nomination process has started and will continue through January 11. Your vote doesn’t have to be for me. Why? Because 1) I don’t feel as if I write enough to win and 2) SXSW would probably not even allow me onto the conference site. There’s a caste system for nerds now.

I would, however, LOVE to attend BlogHer this year {in July!! in San Francisco!!!} and see if it’s really a way to empower female web writers or just a mommyblogger sorority meeting and/or a way to increase revenues for the women who thought up the idea of BlogHer. But three days of nothing but web talk in San Francisco in July with scads of free stuff to be received makes my geeky heart tingle. If only somebody would buy my damn house…

Back on topic…

Last year PostSecret (NSFW, at times) won weblog of the year, which is awesome, but usually it’s the really popular kids who always win. I mean, Perez Hilton won best GLBT blog. Perez Hilton is a gossip blog, and the only time his embraces gayness is when he outs gay celebrities against their will. Which, frankly, sucks. Yet he won because he’s popular and people laugh when he makes fun of celebrities’ children.

So this year, go to the site and vote for the blog that not everyone reads. Better yet, apply to be on the random panel of voters who narrows the reader votes down to the 5 finalists.

(And when you do vote, please vote for someone who’s really dedicated to their blog, and not somebody who collects paychecks from her blog yet only allows fawning comments and has been phoning it in for the last 5 years. Or an overinflated advertising-laden link site. Or Perez Hilton.)

Reminder: it doesn’t have to be for me. I don’t write the word “poop” enough in my blog to warrant being an award-winning blogger.

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November

2007