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Death to the Fort

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Wasabi the Fierce has deemed that the dreaded paper bag fort must die.

Closet collapse, part 1

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When I got bck to CA after 3 weeks in CO to get knee surgery, I was confronted with an unexpected task…

Amy walks

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9 days after knee surgery, while chilling out for a weekend at my cabin in the Rockies, I demonstrate how much I’ve recovered. Watch me walk sans brace – and even dance a bit.

Washington Post: Go Gawker Yourself

Amid the furor over Ira Shapira’s Aug. 2 Washington Post column bemoaning how Gawker excerpted his July 9 article, thus spelling the “death of journalism” — here’s a constructive albeit unconventional idea from Doug Fisher’s Common Sense Journalism blog.
Fisher wrote:
“The fact that close to 10,000 people viewed [Gawker's summary of Shapira's article] instead of reading [...]

On Twitter and Vulnerability

UPDATE Aug 7: Thanks to John Sutter for mentioning and linking to me in his CNN story today rounding up perspectives on the Twitter outage.
Earlier this morning, Twitter went down for a couple of hours. I must admit: Twitter-fiend that I am, I missed it. I slept in a bit, and didn’t get online [...]

Interesting stuff, August 12th from 06:57 to 06:57

Here are some items that caught my interest, and why, from August 12th from 06:57 to 06:57:

WPtouch: WordPress On iPhone » BraveNewCode – "Complimentary theme installed as a plugin on your WordPress blog or website that will format your content with this Apple-inspired, full-featured theme when your visitors are using an iPhone or iPod touch."

Interesting stuff, August 12th from 06:57 to 06:57

Here are some items that caught my interest, and why, from August 12th from 06:57 to 06:57:

WPtouch: WordPress On iPhone » BraveNewCode – "Complimentary theme installed as a plugin on your WordPress blog or website that will format your content with this Apple-inspired, full-featured theme when your visitors are using an iPhone or iPod touch."

Interesting stuff, August 12th from 06:57 to 06:57

Here are some items that caught my interest, and why, from August 12th from 06:57 to 06:57:

WPtouch: WordPress On iPhone » BraveNewCode – "Complimentary theme installed as a plugin on your WordPress blog or website that will format your content with this Apple-inspired, full-featured theme when your visitors are using an iPhone or iPod touch."

Interesting stuff, August 11th from 13:52 to 14:37

Here are some items that caught my interest, and why, from August 11th from 13:52 to 14:37:

Google Gmail, Google Apps Outage in the Cloud | SuaraNews.com – Google Gmail and Google Apps messaging and collaboration services in the cloud suffered an outage of nearly 15 hours. Google Gmail and Google Apps users spent their time [...]

Interesting stuff, August 11th from 08:25 to 08:25

Here are some items that caught my interest, and why, from August 11th from 08:25 to 08:25:

Is there a Tumblr plugin for EE? | ExpressionEngine Community Forums – One of my clients has a site built in Expression Engine — which is powerful, but more complex than necessary to make quick link-blurb style posts. This [...]