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Welcome to the world of freelancing . . .
class=”aligncenter” Welcome to the world of freelancing: one week we’re struggling, with no projects on the horizon. Reality chose that week for my monitor of 8 years to finally die, and I’ve been using the MacBook for designing since (which isn’t ideal since the color isn’t as good and changes depending on what angle the…
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food it is, then…
so, i just checked my wp analytics and the last post, new topic: cheese is my top post and most active. so, um, i guess i should talk about food more. ha. which really makes the ubergeeky theme for the site somewhat unrelated. so yeah, it’s on the list… the big boss came (regional pres)…
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new topic: cheese. discuss.
erin thinks i should write about my cheese exploits. because it’s at least as exciting as anything else i ever write about. …she probably has a point. so. today i discovered cowgirl creamery. they’re based in petaluma, ca and we got some MT TAM in (named after mount tamalpais). not only is it a good…
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someone put me out of my g33k’d misery
i feel like steve jobs is playing a cruel game of punk’d on me. so here’s the deal. i have a macbook. many applications that i want to use don’t work or don’t seem to be entirely supported or have weird issues in tiger (such as the bizarre instance of photoshop not being able to…
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ThinkTank gets a mention for Elgg development
class=”aligncenter” I built a mod for Elgg to put rss feeds into the spotlight in Elgg, rathar than the default Elgg stuff. I posted it to the usergroups and, hey, we got a shout out. It’s not much, but it’s still nice to see our name on someone’s blog other than my own. :) http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/09/05/great-elgg-10-plugins-trickling-in/
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new theme and pretty titles
class=”aligncenter” I added the “Metallic” theme which was ported from the old site and I’ve added in a pretty titles wp plugin (ttftitles) that makes an image from the text using fonts you upload — i like it a lot. I have one more theme I need to port over and then I think we…
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chrome: simplifying the web
in other news of simplifying things, google chrome… i have been a firefox=aholic for a good long while. way back in the beginnings of the internet, i wasn’t ever totally satisfied with internet explorer, and netscape was always too bloated, so i tried every browser i could get my hands on. i settled on opera…
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simplifying things, cutting off painful extremities
so last week, erin and i decided to cut off iFreelance for good. we’ve gotten a good run on Elance and we’ve only really gotten 1 fix-it job on iFreelance, the interface isn’t as good, the support and payment isn’t as easy (for either party) or well developed, and the jobs are fewer and tend…
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freelance success!
after a month of being frustrated and writing bids on projects we wouldn’t get, erin and i re-evaluated what we were doing, how we were approaching the business, and what we should be doing. since then, in a little over a week, we’ve scored 7 new projects on Elance and completed 4 of them. saying…
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obama isn’t going for the low blow
after news of gov. palin’s teen daughter’s pregnancy broke, i thought to myself (and to erin), i hope obama doesn’t use this. it’s typical to go for the groin shot in politics, use an advantage like a teenage pregnancy in the family (or a wife’s alchoholism, or whatever) to drag your opponent’s name in the…