Amazing Internet Synchronicity

I’m home with a sick little girl today — major digestive disruptions (or should I say, eruptions, all over the bed and in the underwear) last night and this morning. You know an almost-five-year-old is sick when she is lying on the couch for hours looking pale and grumpy.
So of course one part of my [...]

I Needed That

Kid home sick. Floor unvacuumed, dishes unwashed. Client unhappy.
Something to lighten my day.
Happy April 1!

1,000 Points for Hubby

for sending me a link to this. Because you knew the intersection of Jane Austen and Facebook had to happen sooner or later.

The Shipbreakers of Alang

There’s this little piece of software/social networking/website recommendation engine/incredible time waster called StumbleUpon. You tell it what you’re interests are, and it finds applicable websites, blogs, images, videos, and so on. I like stumbling for photos, especially white sand beaches in Bora Bora just waiting for me to arrive and order a fruity drink.

But I [...]

The Best Laid Schemes…

…gang aft agley.
I like reading author blogs because it gives me insight into both their creative process and the overall publishing process.
One I like especially is Neil Gaiman’s Journal. He is funny and personable, answers emails, and writes both about being an author and his life–cats, daughters, raising bees, traveling around the world, his relationship [...]

Life Lessons I Learned Today

1) If you drop your laptop on the top of your foot, you won’t break any bones, but the top of your foot will turn blue and swell up and hurt like a motherf hell a lot.
(Don’t worry, I’m fine. I can even walk. And the laptop is fine, too.)
2) If your child comes running [...]

More Reasons to Love BookMooch

Image via Wikipedia

WARNING: This post is liberally peppered with links. Sorry if it’s annoying, but I’m really excited by this topic and just want to share the coolness.
I just came across this article on the Guardian’s website about book-swapping websites. As one of the largest such sites, BookMooch was featured prominently.
I’ve been a BookMooch member [...]

Now I’m a Slightly Mollified Blogger/Reader

I just read this on the guardian.co.uk books section feed: Random House will offer online access to up to 5,000 books, AND THEY SPECIFICALLY WANT BLOGGERS TO USE IT: “Random House wants the tool to be picked up by book fans and bloggers who can modify it for their own sites.”
Now there’s a company that [...]

Hmmm…I smell a rat

Or maybe a poisson.
Aren’t the folks at Google so great for offering this new feature today?
Somehow I think this won’t be available tomorrow….

Multiple Personas

I’ve been thinking about all the different online “personas” I have, after a recent conversation over on The Third Eve’s blog.
I can think of several categories that I could organize my online personas into:
Waldorf/anthroposophy–including this blog, Yahoo groups, philosophyoffreedom.com, and others
Professional–including this blog, LinkedIn, the EFA, Monster, the Copyediting-L Listserv, and others
Social networking–Facebook, Orkut, Ning, [...]