I listen to a lot of podcasts. No, seriously, a lot of podcasts. On all different subjects: Apple, space, movies, front-end web development, and even one particular radio show that has described itself as a soft-core sports show — just to highlight a few of my favorites — all funneled through Instacast onto my iPhone. […]
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Why No, I Won’t Cry for You, Mike Shanahan
By the time you read this, heck, by the time I’m finished writing this, Redskins coach Mike Shanahan is likely to be out of his job. This has become a macabre ritual on the Monday following the end of the regular NFL season: the Black Monday head coach death watch. Browns coach Rob Chudzinski, already […]
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Not Quite So Out of Touch Maybe?
It seems the reports of my future isolation have been somewhat exaggerated. A couple of weeks ago I saw a new doctor at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore who still recommended the RAI treatment, but basically called all of the other doctor’s recommendations “silly.” So here’s the scoop: In the beginning of January I’ll be spending […]
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A Matter of Trust
Apple, in all their presumptuousness, has now pushed iOS 7.0.3 to both my iPhone and my iPad. I have not yet installed iOS 7 at all, nor do I want to. It’s ugly, it breaks with my muscle-memory conventions, and frankly I have no need for it. But there it sits anyway, consuming precious storage […]
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Just Call Me “Fallout Girl”…
When 2013 is all said and done, it will have been quite the eventful year for me, including turning 40, writing a book, winning Twitter, and attending my first WordCamp San Francisco. Sandwiched into all of that was some not-so-minor health issues which I’m still going to be dealing with for a few more months […]
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Oops, I Did It Again
Yesterday, as I was frantically researching for my upcoming talk at WordCamp Baltimore, I wanted to get all the details on WebKit’s implementation of the srcset attribute. A link to .Net magazine, a leading resource of information about website design and development, was the third option that came back on Google. I clicked on it, […]
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Taking After School Activity Providers Back to School
It’s back to school time again, meaning it’s also back to after school activities. Thing 1 is in chess club and takes piano lessons. Thing 2 wants to be a Girl Scout Daisy. There’s also a bevy of after school sports to choose from, all run by organizations that at this age (3rd and K) […]
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Lightning Storm
Last night, WordPress DC (which, if you live in/near Washington, D.C. and love WordPress, you really must join) held a round of lightning talks covering a range of WordPress and WordPress-related topics. I gave a quick five-minute talk on some stupid Sass tricks you can do, including changing the entire color scheme on a page […]
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I’m in Love
I’ll admit it, I’m a WordPress theme junkie. It’s what I do, after all. I love seeing what the big theme shops put out almost as much as I love building them myself. I’m also perennially distracted by “the new shiny” — pretty much every new theme that comes out will catch my eye and […]