Inspirations: Noah Grey 22 Oct 2011 photo by Noah Gray It was January 2001, several years before on a whim I had started a journal on my site, just to let some of the noise out of my head. I was a freshman in college and by this …
Ankle Deep in the Creative Ebb 22 Oct 2011 I’ve spent a good part of this past year trying to figure out why I write. What made my work from 3 years ago so good? Was it only the crisis? Am I out of things to say? Do I just not want to go there? Have I not yet figured out how to evolve myself? My brain is one of …
Pondering Reorganization 16 Oct 2011 Sometime this winter this site is going to split in two. Most probably won’t notice, since the majority of users view only the blog. Despite putting the portfolio sections of this site in the primary navigation of the domain, the majority of hits are to the blog content. Which honestly is fine by me. Though it is silly to continue …
Sick Day, RSS and Social Networking 10 Oct 2011 Outside of the occasional migraine I think it’s been over a year since I’ve been sick, and it has been well over a year since I have taken an entire sick day. The cold of doom started spreading around work a few weeks ago, and then my boyfriend got it over the weekend. Yesterday I felt less than great, I …
Transfer WordPress with Content 09 Oct 2011 Anyone with a blog has been there, at some point you want to start anew on a new server, perhaps with a new domain name and the one bad thing about WordPress is that it is extremely hard to take with you. It always feels like starting over. Here’s a tutorial on how to export WordPress with all it’s content to …
Basic Vegan Spaghetti 09 Oct 2011 This recipe is inspired by my mom who makes her own spaghetti with meat sauce. From what I remember this is very close to her recipe which I used to watch her make with amazement as a young child. This is a great recipe for fall and winter as it …
CSS Header Tutorial 08 Oct 2011 Last week I did a walk through of the layout html and classes for this layout, this week I wanted to point out some tricks used on the header and navigation. Including use of text shadows, absolute positioning within a relative div, @font-face, and linking together multiple classes to one declaration. To view the layout the tutorial was written about …
Thank You Steve Jobs 08 Oct 2011 I am one of those Apple customers. I have a Macbook Pro, an iPhone, and an iPod. I’ve owned 3 Apple laptops, converted my parents to Apple, I’m on my second iPhone, and my third iPod. I’ve been an Apple convert since 2003, several months after my friend introduced me to OS 10 and Expose. I’m all the better for …
Veganize It: Cream Sauce with Sausage 02 Oct 2011 There are a ton of resources for vegan recipes out there, but sometimes you get a hankering for something and there are none available. Last night was one of those nights, we got some Tofurkey Sausage and I had grand plans to make my spicy tomato sauce and sausage recipe. Though when I looked in my pantry the only tomato …