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  • Free Texture Pack: Nature Textures 3

    In our ongoing quest for awesome outdoor textures, we present our third all-purpose nature textures pack.  This pack includes a few beach textures, a couple rocky creek bed shots, and a bunch of different types of wood textures.  These pictures come from City Creek in Salt Lake City, Pescadero Beach on the California coast, and…

  • My relentless pursuit of the guy who robbed me – Life stories – Salon.com

    My relentless pursuit of the guy who robbed me – Life stories – Salon.com

  • Last Bit of Summer

    The Last Bit of Summer template for Blogger was inspired by thoughts of fall leaves, ripe watermelon, and the beautiful golden light of late summer. It’s a little bit of summer serenity to me and I hope it will be to you too. Warm colors, art paper textures and a little bit of extra colorful… (read…

  • How the Leaning Tower of Pisa Was Really Made

    How the Leaning Tower of Pisa Was Really Made

  • A slow day?

    A slow day?

  • A slow day?

    For those that haven’t noticed it yet, upstartblogger.com has taken yet another turn. Remember the old tagline of the site?  If you don’t, I’ll remind you: Successful blogging made simple. As it turns out, successful blogging just is…

  • dear Audrey

    This charming Blogger template is a little bit vintage, a little bit writer and a whole lot of personality! It uses neutral colors and inviting paper textures with an added vintage style ornament as accents to create a warm and sophisticated setting for your words of wisdom, adorable pictures or online diary.  Dear Audrey uses… (read…

  • Free October Calendar Wallpaper: Good Morning

    This month’s wallpaper comes out of a long-exposure shot I took sometime in the pre-dawn hours a couple months ago.  As I was staring at my computer screen  at more or less the same time, it seemed an appropriate start for a new wallpaper.  T…

  • How I fixed the “cannot redeclare _checkactive_widgets()” error in WordPress child themes

    So, I had a problem.  For a while I’ve noticed a whole bunch of code being tacked on to my functions.php file.  I’ve had no idea where it came from since I certainly didn’t write it, so I generally just removed it when I saw it.  Then I noticed this weird php error when I… (read…

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    whatever happened to…