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Archive for February 2006

Te Amo

For Valentine’s day, my mom got all of us conversation hearts in Spanish. They are the coolest. They say things like: HOLA MI VIDA PAZ BESO VAMOS AMA ME DULCE MI NOVIA DE NADA ADIOS Not an “email me” or “fax me” to be found. Last post about conversation hearts for a while. Te amo!

Branding

I have long been bothered by but long kept quiet about seeing my website linked all over the internet as “Not Myself.” Now, I shouldn’t be complaining because (a) my website is linked all over the internet, and (b) it’s not reallywrong—that is the song this domain is from. The thing is, I have never [...]

Random CSS tip (?) #582

I’ve ran into a situation a couple of times lately where I’ve had problems unstyling an unordered list <ul> (so I can change the bullet style or whatever) using: list-style: none; What happens is, in Internet Explorer it will drop the bullets, but I get a phantom text-indent on the first line of each list [...]

Usernames

I got invited to try out the Ma.gnolia beta, and, inspired by Rachel, I decided to try to get “maura” as my username, which I did. I have a number of username candidates that I usually go for when I sign up for a new service, but “maura” is rarely one of them. Often I [...]

Hillary

I’m reading Hillary Rodham Clinton’s A Living History right now. (I’ve temporarily abandoned My Life, and by temporarily I mean I haven’t picked it up in six months.) I’m behind on books for 2006, although this one is only going to push me further back due to its length. Anyway, I must admit I’m enjoying [...]

A few good podcasts

Cinecast The Onion Radio News Slate’s Daily Podcast NPR: Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me NPR: Story of the Day Radio Free Burrito (Wil Wheaton) Blankbaby Radio!

My RSS Wishlist

An aggregate feed of my LiveJournal friends page. Feeds for free Blogger accounts. Photos in the Uncrate feed. Feeds for each of the sections of Metacritic. Full posts in feeds for all of you who have partial posts in your feeds. (Yes, I’m looking at you.)

Super Bowl XL

Yeah, I watched that. I made pigs-in-blankets for myself, because that’s what the Super Bowl means to me. Emma and I were rooting for the Seahawks near the beginning, but oh well. I’m not even too excited about any of the ads. Oh and did they seriously play Spoon during that one Belk commercial? And [...]

WordPress

I’ve long resisted trying out WordPress for various reasons including (a) I was unlikely to switch anyway, (b) as much as I like trying out the latest and greatest, the crazed fandom turned me off, and (c) oh, yeah, stuff like this. But, I have a confession to make: I have tasted the WordPress Kool-Aid. [...]

Things that are good

Mild abrasives Refraining from tearing things down for no reason Clean dishes A comfy bed Chick flicks Vaseline Intensive Care lotion Sweaters

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