Archive for October, 2007

Blogging While Traveling out of the Country

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Ok, I’m not that far from home, but am writing this in Mexico (Puerto Peñaco, Sonora). While being a virtual worker and working while mobile and away from the office is something I’ve mentioned before, this is different, for me at least.
Puerto Peñasco is experiencing tremendous growth and the number of WIFI spots has [...]

First Apple Pie of the Season

Monday, October 15th, 2007

Baking has little or nothing to do with blogging, except maybe that both are done with creativity and love.
I know it’s October when I bake my first apple pie of the season, since it’s usually made for my husband’s birthday. After that, there will be many more pies throughout the fall and winter, but [...]

Technology Recycling Contest #3: Pick Your Issue and Drive it Home

Monday, October 15th, 2007

I find I am concerned enough to write about a number of environmental issues (making home/office greener, harvesting rainwater, and finding safe disposal options for fluorescent lightbulbs, for example), but perhaps NOT concerned enough to actually do more than blog about them, run occasional technology recycling contests, and write letters to my elected [...]

Successful and Outstanding Blogger (SOB)

Saturday, October 13th, 2007

Successful Blog’s Liz Strauss, the absolutely radiant energy behind SOBCon confers her SOB title weekly on bloggers she feels are expanding the conversation that IS blogging. She embodies her belief that “blogging is about the people” and, to stimulate that conversation, she created the SOB program.
As Liz explains it, she is coaxing bloggers to, [...]

Is Original Web Design a Dying Art?

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

I’m slotted as a guest speaker for class of college of students enrolled in a web design course today, and in preparation I found myself listing all the ways the process has changed since I built my first site back in 1994.
With all the options in Content Management, using WordPress AS your website, and [...]

Changed My WordPress Permalinks Structure, Finally

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

Enough reading about it, and quaking in fear at the thought of doing it. It was time to give my old permalinks the boot.
Months ago (when I first grasped that I absolutely had to change my permalink structure in order to boost traffic) I read through the instructions for a plugin that would make this [...]