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blogging from iphone
Not as easy as it looks. Saw I am my own wife last night. It was awesome.
A Little J.K. Rowling Inspiration
You’ve probably already all seen J.K. Rowling’s speech at Harvard, but it’s worth watching again. V. inspirational — especially for those of us without jobs. 🙂 It’s in two parts.
Keeping Up With Gossip
Handy ways to keep up with virtual gossip: 1) Use a blog reader. It helps you keep track of all of the blogs you read. The tech genius at my house made handy instructions you can get here. 2) Sign up for Google Alerts. Google will alert you anytime the key words you plug into …
I Have to Post
I’m usually not political on this blog, but I’m making an exception for this, because it is too funny. If I weren’t already a member of YA for Obama, I would have to be after watching this. 🙂
Is Summer Really Over?
It doesn’t seem possible that summer is over. It’s warmer and sunnier than ever, we went to the beach last weekend, AND I haven’t seen a single student around. We definitely aren’t in Madison any more. Yet I just read Lois Lowry’s blog from over two weeks ago and she claims summer is over and …
Cat Birthday Karma
We missed Harpo’s birthday last week. AGAIN. We’ve actually never remembered his birthday. I mean, he’s a cat, I’m sure he isn’t sad about this at all (though he did keep us up all night the night before so maybe he was trying to tell us something). But we aren’t taking advantage of the good …
Out of the Loop
It has been a year since we’ve had a television. I can’t say that I’ve missed it much. I mean, we HAVE a computer (or three). It isn’t like we are devoid of entertainment. LOTS of shows are out on DVD which the library gives to us for free, along with movies, books on tape …
Blog Goblins
Yes, my blog is back! I knew that blogs could go on vacation, but I had no idea about the Blog Goblins that could come along and chomp up your blog leaving you with nothing but a weird login page as though your blog had never existed at all. My web guys said that my …
You Too Can Become a Skype-er!
If you’re reading this and you don’t have Skype yet, you need it! It’s so, so cool. And so, so free! Say you’re sitting around wasting time on the internet (not that you would ever do such a thing) and you discover this great pair of Corso Como flats with rhinestones in the sole and …