Gifted Typist

Update: Yup, you’re right about the comments. I’ve darkened them and made them larger. Check it out. I’ve also increased the size of the font in the posts. This theme isn’t widgetized, meaning I have to go into the code to make changes in the sidebars. This “What Not To Wear” blog styling exercise will [...]

This theme is called Flush. It’s a clean two-column blog, also designed my Milo. I like the drop-down menus on the top and the blue water design is very refreshing. Almost makes me want to go for a dip to wash away the blues. This is my fourth theme this week. Yesterday’s theme with the [...]

This one is called McMac. It’s a WordPress theme designed by the very talented Milo, who designed the “Summer” theme I had up on Monday. The messiness could be distracting, but I must say, it does represent the state of my desk on most days. You find the strangest things on my desk, and my [...]

So. I’ve heard you. Yesterday’s theme wasn’t doing it for you. You said no personality. Corporate. Boring. Blah. I wonder what Simon and Paula would have said. So, here’s Monday’s theme. It’s call Summer. And appropriately it’s sunny outside my window this morning. I’ve flirted with this one before. I’m going to make a few [...]

Update: I’ve been playing around with the CSS code and have done the following put colour in the header changed font from stark arial to a more laid-back verdana reduced most of header fonts to lower case (because I don’t like to yell) reduced the size of the fonts I have a graphic of an [...]

So, I go through the whole white-knuckle ride of updating my WordPress platform. Hounded by the failure of Website Updates Past, I studied the “codex,” backed the whole thing up four or five times, and scoured through YouTube demos. This prep went on for days. History would repeat itself over my dead body. My hands [...]

Read my Herald column here. You could call the Barbie doll many things. But flat is not one of them. And yet that is exactly what they were saying about Barbie this week in the business news. Apparently Barbie sales were flat for toy maker Mattel. On one hand, I say good riddance to this [...]

That if you get your snow tires taken off on April 23rd, there will be snow in the forecast on April 24th. Sorry I forget the physics genius who worked out the Law of Springtime Road Rubber Change and Frozen Precipitation. But I do know that it is a cause-and-effect action. Change tires = snow. [...]

Why don’t you just make it easy on everyone and tell us the days you WILL be available to teach our kids. You could just say that schools will be open this day and that day and this day. It would be so much easier than splattering our schedules with closings and early dismissals. That’s [...]

This day marks the birth of the modern environmental movement which began in 1970. Back then, the issues were pollution, extinction of wildlife, construction of freeways and dumping raw sewage into the ocean. Today the issues are more focused on global warming and clean energy. Days like Earth Day do create awareness and momentum but [...]

My very favourite Bad Tempered Zombie tagged me for this meme. I’ve been falling down on my meme activity lately – sorry Beth and Moxie. So here is my attempt banish my shame. This meme requires you to link your five favourite sites and then tag five others to do the same. BBC Radio. Without [...]

All by myself! Geeks will laugh at this supposed triumph. But this stuff is not easy for a geek wannabe like me. It involves things like roots, wp-admin, php files. htaccess, wp-config. Some of these things you have to delete and some you don’t. It’s all very hard on the head and it makes you [...]

See my Herald column here. The writing’s on the superwall, Facebook: We’re over. I’m just not that into you anymore. At first it was fun and all about the friends. But then you started throwing donkeys, turkeys and one-eyed pirates. And poking and superpoking and the mass invitations. I was getting Facebook Fatigue. You became [...]

Go here to view this set in Flickr. Early one sunny August morning, I turned off the highway to take a picture of a beautiful still lake. The lake was pretty, but it was in the field next to the lake that I stumbled upon gold. There were hundreds of spiders’ webs*, their gossamer fibers [...]

Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams is describing the seal-hunt protesters as terrorists. Excuse me, Mr. Williams? Terrorists? Is that like the terrorists who hijacked the planes and flew into the Twin Towers killing thousands of people? Or is it like the suicide bombers who sometimes blow themselves up in Baghdad markets, taking 30 or 40 or [...]