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Posts from November 2007

Excellent: Create your own IE Voodoo Doll!

This may seem a bit evil, but trust me, if you’re a web designer and have ever tried to get something to work nicely in Internet Explorer … you’ll understand the feeling of wanting to stab it. Repeatedly.
Yes, you’ll note that this site still doesn’t function properly in Internet Explorer - and my statistics show […]


Blogging on the Side: Freelance Positions But No Compromises

Well I’ve been working crazy amounts of overtime for my job as an Educational Technology Assistant. Specifically, we just started a new project with an instructor in which a class of around 100 students use a Wiki to format their final assignments. It’s been a whirlwind experiment, to say the least, and since […]


Found: Litemind Article and Layers of Leaves

Via Litemind (through a Stumble): Tackle Any Issue with a List of 100
The List of 100 is a powerful technique you can use to generate ideas, clarify your thoughts, uncover hidden problems or get solutions to any specific questions you’re interested in.
The technique is very simple in principle: state your issue or […]


Real Food Daily - Curried Yellow Split Pea Soup Recipe

Okay, because I’m nice and wanted to share the awesome soup love, I emailed Ann Gentry, the author of the Real Food Daily cookbook, and asked for permission to post the amazing Curried yellow Split Pea Soup recipe on my blog, the one that I had made earlier for J’s family. Why? Because […]


Dan Piraro of Bizarro Comics: Why Vegan?

I’ve been much more social lately than normal, really enjoying getting to know amazing people through the vegan community. Sometimes I just want to stay at home, so it’s great that I’m being pushed to meet new people, which is always a worthwhile experience. Last night there was yet another potluck (so help […]


Lecture Prank

More from Prangstgrup.  I wish this kind of thing had happened when I was in class.


Stumbleupon Surfing Spree and New Blogs of Interest

[Wow, two entries in one day during Nablopomo! Since it’s past midnight, does this entry count for Saturday?] So I’ve been doing a little of the true ‘web surfing’ lately, which can be really fun once in a while when I’m in that mood for discovering new things and enjoying the sensations of […]


Delicious Veg Meal: Breakfast for Dinner!

I’ve just come back from a delicious vegan dinner hosted and cooked by a local vegan named Sara. She is holding regular dinners to give local vegans the chance to connect with each other, but also to showcase her delicious cooking skills in hopes of someday having her own restaurant. The food certainly […]


On Lemon Loving and a Peaceful Day

[photo by chotda]
Lately I am obsessed with lemons. I go through these serial infatuations with different fruits - recently, it was apples. Before that, cold oranges - you know, straight from the fridge. Anyway, I just never realized how much I really enjoy lemons and just how essential they are. […]


About Time - Site Changes and 7 New Things

So I finally wrote my About page, which was well overdue. I also took out the trite About blurb on the main page and put in a quotation. I think I will schedule in to change these quotations on a monthly basis - it’s much more interesting than attempting to list all of […]


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