I am thankful for many usual things this year: my family, home(s), animals, food, etc. But I am also thankful for having a phone again. Silly, I know, but this is the 21st century and I am a bit of a geek! We enjoyed a very, nice and quiet Thanksgiving at our new 2nd home…
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Time4Learning Online Curriculum – The Initial First Month Review
My two younger daughters and I have been trying out the online curriculum “Time4Learning”:http://www.time4learning.com for the past month. I had read about “Time4Learning”:http://www.time4learning.com in a review done by “Woolwytch,”:http://woolwytch.com/ last year sometime. The verdict thus far is that we really like it. For help on this interview, I had each of the girls write their…
My first post ala Curve
I’m finally posting from my “Blackberry Curve!”:http://www.blackberrycurve.com It took some searching but thanks to the “Opera Mini”:http://www.operamini.com browser I can finally post on here when the inspiration arises. I don’t know if I am the only one – but I’ve been blind-sided by Christmas. I am SO not ready. I’m trying to focus on the…
Naked? Why yes, I guess I am
But for “good reason.”:http://naked.dustindiaz.com/ What a cool date to do something off-key – *4/5/6* The really good news is that when I am _re-dressed_, I’ll be sporting new duds.
Oh, the Origami Intrigue
“Click here to find out almost nothing.”:http://www.origamiproject.com It must be a Micro$oft thing.
Want a free iPod? I have one- really!
You can read “my story here.”:http://starzabove.com/article/merry-christmas-to-me—my-ipod-is-here It’s on the up and up – I don’t even get spam, because they offer an opt-out for that – though I’d still give an email address that wasn’t my most important, guarded one. If you are up for it “Click this Link”:http://premiumipods.freepay.com/?r=13079427 I’m shooting for a video or…
Laundry and a new knitting show
h6. Knitting Links Here is a great “laundry label guide.”:http://www.textileaffairs.com/lguide.pdf (thanks “Chris”:http://www.chrisknits.blog-city.com/ ) A new knitting show, “StitchCraft”:http://www.oxygen.com/StitchCraft/about.aspx on the “Oxygen network”:http://www.oxygen.com/ premieres on March 5th – set your dvr/TiVo’s. “Convert-Me”:http://www.convert-me.com/en/ is a great site useful for many things, including converting grams to and from ounces as well as yards to and from meters. h6.…
Referred to death and knitting storm
Well, I’ve been dealing with referrer spam problems that are killing my site and affecting the entire server – spammers suck. They give me headaches. I know I haven’t posted here in a few weeks, but I sure have been knitting, “as you can see here.”:/moblog I’m all about the quick-and-easy project these days. I’m…
Textpattern 4.0
Oh My! I can’t EVEN believe that I forgot to announce that the long-awaited Final Release version of Textpattern was released! It jumped all the way to 4.0, just skipped right over 1,2 and 3, it’s just _that_ fabulous! If you don’t know about Textpattern, you should – it’s the most amazing CMS(Content Management System)…
Return To Flight
Two places I’m watching this morning are “NASA live TV”:http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html which offers Windows Media Player and Real Player, thanks to Yahoo and Akamai, and “Live Launch Countdown Coverage”:http://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight/launch/launch-vlcc.html This page is updated every few minutes so periodic refreshes are neccessary. This is exciting stuff!