We’ve just put in a makeshift water containment system. My husband, usually very thrifty, “spends” the water as soon as we collect it. That is, he dumps it on a part of the yard that he doesn’t think is getting enough water, even though we’re in our summer rainy season and will likely have rain [...]

After help from numerous resources online (scroll to the bottom of Busted by Google to see some of the sites that helped me track down my hacked files), and combing through jillions (it feels like) files, I find this morning that my google search engine results are restored to normal. That was REALLY fast. Though [...]

Recovering from hacks Sigh. I love Google. I have had great luck over the years with DIY SEO and have always found Google’s resources to be extremely helpful. Inexplicably, I seem to be in trouble with Google and have spent about 48 hours trying to figure out the issue, if there is one. Sadly, I [...]

Taryn Merrick, a colleague and web designer (whose work I admire a lot) and I have been discussing the trend of taking an old web site, built with an html editor, say, and converting it into a WordPress site, which can function as a combination static site and blog. She and I have both tackled [...]

I like the simplicity of being an owner/operator of my business. This week, though, I was listening when the universe pointed out to me that my accounting system might need some fine tuning. Or, I might need to turn it over to someone else. First, I misplaced an entire stack of client timesheets, representing all [...]