header
August
21
2008

Friday Five for August 22: Stupidity

OK..you caught me…it’s really Thursday. The Friday Five site publishes their questions early, so I figured I’d sleep in 10 more minutes tomorrow morning and do it tonight. Cheers!

Oh, this Friday Five was tailor-made for me! It’s called: Stupidity

1. What’s something really, really stupid you’ve done that could easily have resulted in your own death?
I’ve left candles burning in my apartment overnight and while I’m at work. I’ve also met numerous online people in person - nothing turned out badly (I vet people pretty well) but I’ve heard that sometimes online encounters go bad. ;)

2. What makes you feel stupid?
When I don’t get the whole story about something, either personal or work-related, then my lack of knowledge is put on full display when everyone around me knows everything.

3. What’s something that’s stupid in a very smart way?
Pari!s H!lt0n. She makes money being a stupid heiress.

4. What’s an example of a stupid idea working out in a way that solved a problem?
“Let’s just duct tape it back together!” Who’d have thunk that you could tape things like furniture, cars, appliances, etc, and they’d actually stay together?

5. There is apparently a brand of packaged popcorn called Smartfood. What might be found in the package labeled Stupidfood?
Cheese puffs. They’re radioactive orange, mostly air, and just a skosh of cheese. They’re addictive, so you can eat an entire bag at one sitting and get absolutely no value out of them whatsoever.

***
What a freaking nutty week. I’m still so very thankful the layoffs passed over me. Must have been the lamb’s blood I painted on my cube wall. ;) Of course, the rumor mill has started up already saying there will be more in December. Whatevs.

***
Wanna sneaky-peeky of my redesign?:

I’m writing this 99% from scratch, just lifting the WordPress tags from past templates and the Codex. It’s a hell of a challenge, especially continuously checking it in Firefox, IE, and Safari. My goal is to have it launch on September 1. Major challenges include: 1) How to get my sidebars to extend all the way down to the footer? 2) What to do with my HUGE list of links? 2) Re-re-recoding the hostess picture page, and 3) turning “Pets” into “Cast of Characters” page - because seriously, if you’re new to this site, how the heck will you know who WM, Coworker S, and BvP are? I’m proud of the little date block, which I saw on quite a few blogs but coded all by myself!

Posted at: 11:49 pm in General, Webkeeping, Work | Permanent Link | 3 Comments - add yours! »
Tags: , ,

April
27
2008

Code wrangling

I’m trying to add two right columns to the sidebar which is why you’re seeing all sorts of weirdness going on. Be patient. :)

Edited at 2:13pm Well guess what I discovered? My header file was hacked and a bunch of spam links were added. I noticed that Google stopped crawling my site in mid-March, and I think this was why. Let’s see…what did I do in mid-March? Oh yeah…I added that eyeball-searing pink Wordpress theme. That I got for free. I think it contained a file that allowed the hack to happen.

Anyway, I cleaned up the header file, changed my WordPress password to a complete jumbled mess of letters and numbers that I’ll probably forget tomorrow, and sent a mea culpa note to Google requesting they start crawling me again.

Now I need to walk away from the PC or else I’ll have a fit.

Posted at: 12:00 pm in General, Webkeeping | Permanent Link | Comments Off
Tags:


Hostess 92: November 13 - World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King release day!

heading home for lunch and a therapeutic dose of dog noses. 11 hrs ago
Click here to follow me!

Went to BlogHer Boston

Archives

Search

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Widget_logo

www.flickr.com
This is a Flickr badge showing public photos and videos from ladygypsy. Make your own badge here.
logo

My weather
The WeatherPixie

ADVERTISEMENT

Follow me via my feed
Subscribe with Bloglines
Add to My Yahoo!
Add to Google

I'm Kimberly Dowd and I approve this blog. All photos and scribblings copyright 2002 - 2008.
This blog is my own opinion and does not reflect the opinions of my friends, family, enemies, employer or Major League Baseball.
I love WordPress!!

LadyGypsy.net - the personal website of Kimbe - Blogged