From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Weekly Wrap-Up

August 29, 2009

Hopefully, there’s something in this week’s notables that will appeal to just about everyone. I have to confess, I wasn’t quite as studious this week in reviewing items–I’ve spent a good part of the week in the garage, cleaning out 20 years of junk, and setting up a new workbench and tool cabinets. And the [...]

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Friday Five: Cool Productivity Sites

August 28, 2009

Welcome to the weekend! And a happy Labor Day holiday to my fellow Americans and our Canadian neighbours neighbors. In the name of the holiday, if not in the spirit thereof, I want to present a short list of websites I’ve found that can aid you in your labors, by saving time, frustration, or generally [...]

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How to Make Your Blog Reader-Friendly

August 27, 2009

"Whaddya mean, ‘reader-friendly’? It’s in English, what more do you want?"
Let’s start with why we blog (well, why most of us do, anyway): We want to establish a rapport with our readers, and we want to interact with them. The genesis for this post was Brajana’s article on tips to improve blog usability at Mend [...]

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Wrapping Up The Week: Recommended Reading

August 22, 2009

First of all, my apologies for no Friday Five yesterday; I promise to make it up to you next week! However, my youngest son is in town, and we spent the last two days assembling a garden shed for Mrs. Kestrel, for which we were rewarded with good food and plenty of beer.
I’m hopeful this [...]

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My WoW UI, a quick peek

August 18, 2009

Yesterday I tweeted that I was going to work on my WoW UI (and I did…spent all day and most of the evening at it!). Today, a friend IM’d me with a request for some addons, so I decided to post this "Before" pic for her. (The "After" shot will look pretty similar.)
 So for Lauren, [...]

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Wrapping Up The Week

August 15, 2009

Two really fun things here: Be sure you check out the photo-crashing squirrel pic, and the submission from @astropixie, Dr. Amanda Bauer (sorry about the misspelling in the note; I don’t know how to fix that) of Toto’s "Africa."
[recreading]

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Friday Five: Best Lagers

August 14, 2009

It’s midsummer (regardless of all the back-to-school stuff): The PGA Championship is underway, baseball’s pennant races are heating up, NFL training camps are in full swing, and you’re about to start choosing your can’t-miss fantasy team. Even if you’re not a sports fan, you’ve noticed the heat index is in the "hot as hell" range. [...]

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Looking For A Better E-mail Icon: Can You Help?

August 12, 2009

Look up there…no, on the right…higher, just under the banner. Yeah…there. Pretty snazzy lil RSS icon…the blue matches the Aerie’s color scheme pretty closely. Ditto the Twitter bird: Nice 3D image, probably Photoshopped. The php functions to pull in the subscriber numbers are pretty cool too (if you have Firebug, check it out, or go [...]

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Cool Stuff of the Week

August 8, 2009

[recreading]

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2K Comments – Thanks everyone!

August 7, 2009

In this case, a picture is worth much more than a thousand words. How about 2,000 comments: each of them a conversation between you and me. Amazingly, we’ve accomplished this feat just 8 days short of the Aerie’s second anniversary!
Thank you, every one of you great readers!


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