tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36144412008-07-02T22:20:28.608-04:00Heidshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394467435961064641noreply@blogger.comBlogger335125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614441.post-61473386705361062292008-07-02T21:54:00.002-04:002008-07-02T22:09:14.098-04:00

OK, so the background image problem is mostly solved, and the additional column thing is too tricky to tackle just yet. So that leaves one little problem; why isn't my RSS feed working? I've followed the Blogger help instructions, and yet I'm getting a file not found. To use a Catherine-ism, "for cry eye!"

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Marketing blogger extraordinaire Seth Godin asks: Should marketers try to sell a product at all costs or is integrity more important? What would happen if marketers told the truth?read more | digg story

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And Karim figured out that the repeating background image also needed to be widened, same as the top and bottom. Duh for me not noticing it had both a left and right side pattern. So now just more tinkering around with the post dividing line, and figuring out how to add another "column" of divs on the far right.

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The problem with switching to a CSS template when one doesn't actually know CSS, is that updates to said template are painful and prone to error. So I've managed to widen my main posts column, but not move the right side background image. I need to bring chocolate to our CSS guru at work ...

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At a previous workplace that will remain anonymous, this became our catchphrase to indicate when the office environment -- particularly in relationship to stressful projects and/or clients -- began to get overwhelming. Eventually, it evolved into shorthand exchanges that went something like this: "Pretzels?" (Is work bothering you?) "So thirsty ..." (Is it ever!) Never gets old.

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After many years with an old skool tables-based Blogger template, I have finally leapt forth into the current CSS standard with the layout that you see here today. It's nice and clean and a good start, but now I need a CSS wizard to help me add a 3rd column on the right for all manner of widgets.

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If I were to add up all the ways I spend my non-work/sleeping/eating/getting ready hours, far too many of them would be spent on non-recreational tasks: things like laundry, checking email, backing up the computer, picking up crap that seems to accumulate on every surface, loading the dishwasher, unloading the dishwasher, transferring photos from the camera to the computer, paying bills. Updating

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Man, this was funny. Though it did make me want to eat yogurt and wear my gray hoodie.

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Happy Father's Day, Captain And to Kennymoon, another super daddy whose little girl loves him very much

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W00t! Verizon was here today hooking up our shiny new FiOS TV and DVR (aka Tivo). Now we are all digital, all the time -- phone, internet and video. The drawback? When the power goes out, and the backup battery dies, the phone goes with it. Now I've just gotta learn a whole new remote.

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Through serendipitous circumstances, we wound up selling the glider chair that has been sitting unused in the corner of Julia's room for 3 years. With more space in her room, we decided it was time to graduate to a big girl bed. So on Saturday we rushed out the door at 9:30 to beat the impending heat (96 degrees! ugh!) and journeyed to IKEA. Julia picked out the Kritter bed, entirely -- I

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Some recent pictures:

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So I suppose it's some sort of parental rite of passage to open the door of the dryer and discover that an entire load has gone through accompanied by a red crayon, thus leaving red crayon stains not only on the clothes, but streaked all over the dryer drum itself. I don't know what people did 10 (or even 5) years ago, but luckily I was able to consult the Google. Based mostly on this

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Anyone who knew my Dad knew that he had several alter egos, most of them of his own devising, such as neighborhood fire marshal or guardian of the Ski Patrol. One of his favorites was Indiana Jones. I remember going to see the first movie in the theater in 1981 at age 11 with him, and he bought the complete trilogy when it first came out on video, which will tell you how long ago that was. So

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Stopping to smell the roses on a beautiful morning.

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Julia waits expectantly for the musician to begin.

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My 2 cents on the American Idol season finale: David Archuleta made the savvier song choices for the final round of a competition, but David Cook is the better performer and musician. He'll have the better career.D

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You could say our trip started in February when Ken first bought the plane tickets and made the travel arrangements. Once Julia knew we were going to Disney World, she began preparations. At various times over the next months, she packed and repacked her Hello Kitty backpack and heart purse with toys and items carefully chosen for the trip. Frequently, she placed them by the door so they would be

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Here are some pix from our 4-day getaway to Disney World for Julia's first visit there. More details to come soon ...

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In our back yard.

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5 days of beautiful weather. Now, the morning of Julia's birthday party? Rain.

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Buying birthday party food at Trader Joe's.

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Taken while on a springtime walk.

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So Karim of all people got me on the Twitter bandwagon. I say "of all people" because, while being an interwebs-intensive, online-all-the-time, blog-commenting kind of guy, he's not so much about the social web. No blog, not much on Flickr, not really on Digg or Deli.cio.us. Like me, really, except for the blog part. Anyway, for some reason he finally signed up and I got one of those email

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In the big green chair, eating a cookie

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