NaBloPoMo, Again
Posted by Cyn | Filed under Blogging, Critters
I’m trying NaBloPoMo again! The theme this month is “Return,” although I’m not at all sure what the heck that’s supposed to mean. I got today’s post in just under the wire, obviously—but I did post! Tomorrow I’ll try to do it much better. And I’ll even include photos of the new kitten! Maybe he’ll have a name by then.
Tags: Blogging, cats, kittens, NaBloPoMo, Return
Question of the Day: Put it all together, it spells Mother
Posted by Cyn | Filed under Blogging, Family
From LiveJournal’s “Writer’s Block” prompt:
What’s the most important lesson your mom taught you?
You can’t believe the words, only the actions.
No, I don’t ever recall her saying it. It’s something I had to learn the hard way.
Tags: Mother's Day, writer's block
Thoughts about what I want in a theme
Posted by Cyn | Filed under Blogging
It’s been way too long since I started, but didn’t actually finish, the process of moving all the old articles on this site over into WordPress. I got bogged down and didn’t really finish, so the site stayed half-done and sucky. Now I don’t know if I should even bother finishing. Part of the trouble is that those articles are SO old that when I start moving them, I get bogged down in updating them and I end up rewriting them, and it’s hard to finish even one section!
Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: custom themes, Design, graphic design, Jake Rome, themes, web design, wordpress
Oh No, I Have That Itch
Posted by Cyn | Filed under Art, Blogging
No, nothing like that!
I’ve been looking at WordPress themes. Again. Lots of them.
I have lots of tutorials bookmarked about creating your own themes, too. I even have a couple of books on the subject.
One is quite new.
Danger, danger, Will Robinson!
Tags: Blogging, Changes, Templates, themes, wordpress
September 2010 NaBloPoMo Theme: Art
Posted by Cyn | Filed under Art, Blogging
I received the NaBloPoMo newsletter today and learned that this month’s theme is Art. On the one hand, I thought, “I have nothing to say! I’m not an artist. Blah.”
On the other hand, I’m coming to realize that I must have order in my life or I start dying, bit by bit. “Enemy of Entropy” isn’t just a fanciful blog title. Disorder is painful to me. Dull colors, harsh lighting, loud sounds, poor ventilation, and pervasive odors can drag anyone down, but they make me ill very rapidly.
If you find me surrounded by chaos you can be sure that either I haven’t been in that space long enough to impose order, or that something is very, very wrong.
I’m healthiest and happiest when I’m when I find ways to increase the amount of harmony and beauty around me. There is beauty in order, and art, for me, involves order — some kind of order, even if it isn’t always obvious.
I’m never going to be an Artist in any classical sense of the word. I have, however, established peaceful, joyful spaces for my family and friends to live in and visit. I put together fabric and fibers to create unique works of embroidery. When I sing, alone or with others, the result is no less beautiful for its ephemerality.
I’ll be trying to explore my own kind of art this month through blogging, my identity as an artist. And I’ll be working on getting back to blogging regularly, obviously. This is a new sort of blog post for me, more introspective. We’ll see how that goes.
Tags: Art, beauty, homemaking, NaBloPoMo
Book Review: Grave Secret by Charlaine Harris
Posted by Cyn | Filed under Blogging, Reading
Grave Secret by Charlaine Harris
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I’d say that wraps it up for this series. No, I won’t tell you why I’m saying that, or it’ll ruin the book for you. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Charlaine Harris, dark fantasy, Grave Secret, Harper Connelly
Oh. That Would Do It! (That Problem With Posting to LJ)
Posted by Cyn | Filed under Blogging
I’ve tried all the different plugins that claim to work with WordPress for cross-posting to LiveJournal, but recently I’ve gotten errors from everything. I’ve asked for help from the authors in their forums and nothing seemed to be happening. And then I saw this: Banned Because of Live+Press’ Bad Behavior. That’s from the current maintainer of Live+Press, the plugin I’ve had the best luck with overall. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Blogging, Live+Press, LiveJournal, wordpress
Updated Page — Fat Stuff
Posted by Cyn | Filed under Blogging
I updated the Warning: Fat Lady Ahead page (finally!) today. The resources page had to be split into a separate page.
Skribit is a Go!
Posted by Cyn | Filed under Blogging
If you’ve visited here once or twice, you might have noticed that little thingie over there in the left-hand bar that asks, “What should I write about?” There’s a link to Skribit, where you can leave suggestions about the types of posts you’d like to see here.
Well, you too can get such a widget for your blog! Because Skribit is out of beta! So go check out their site, and see how their tools can help you.
Tags: Blogging, Skribit, Twitter
Pretty picture, meme, etc.
Posted by Cyn | Filed under Art, Blogging
Sam started a meme!
Tags: jakerome, John's Background Switcher, Sam, WebShots