Archive for July, 2008

Pizza Perfection

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Locally grown+homemade=Yummy Perfection.
This masterpiece started at Whipstone Farm in Paulden. Corey and Shanti Rade bring us our share of their fresh-picked produce every Tuesday. (More about their CSA can be found here.)
Shanti emails a list of what’s coming in each week’s delivery in advance. She also includes a few recipe hints, making meal planning [...]

Once a winner, always a winner

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

When my kids were home for a visit recently, we spent some time looking through some dusty old family photos.
These two images took me back to a July forty-six summers ago, when I entered my first contest. So convinced was I that I would the first prize, that I wrote to my aunt and uncle [...]

Web developers of the world, let your voice be heard!

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Whatever your level of expertise, whatever tools you use, would you like to help A List Apart get a clear picture of who does web design?
Here’s the what & why:
“The information you’ve so generously shared with A List Apart will help us form a picture of the ways web design is practiced around the globe. [...]

Things they left behind

Monday, July 28th, 2008

They filled the house to overflowing. Then they vanished, all at once, after a week of sleep deprivation, tons of great homemade food, somersaults, kitchen dancing, walks through the neighborhood, squirt gun fights, over-the-roof football lobbing, and loads of laughs.
The things they left behind:

5 hot dogs
8 working squirt guns
Redecorated basketball court
lavender button-down shirt: doesn’t appear [...]

How to Convert a Static Web Site to a WordPress blog site

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

This is an undertaking that involves a huge leap of faith!
Note from ktcosmos: This article was originally developed at the request of a colleague, who was tackling a conversion project herself. She published it on her new blog but then contacted me recently to say she had grown frustrated and stressed out over the conversion [...]

Page Rank DOES Migrate after awhile!

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

About six weeks ago I converted an existing site to a WordPress, blog-style site.
I’ve written about the process elsewhere (Converting from Static Site to WordPress Blog? , and also check out my guest post about the conversion published at Merrick Management), and all that was left to have happen is for the original site’s [...]