April 27, 2007
I went to the
Ann Arbor Ad Club meeting last night, at the dreadful SPARK place (sorry folks, you've got a great mission but an awful space), to hear about SEO and engaging the blogosphere. I know some about the former and well, I live in the latter, so I'm not sure why I felt compelled to attend, but there you have it.
The talks were good - Linda Gerard from
Pure Visibility was her perky and engaging self, evangelizing for good SEO practices (the white hat, google-fu kind). I picked up one thing I hadn't thought about - don't use your company name in the page title, use something descriptive (keyword-y). There were two ...
April 21, 2007
Feelin' mighty nostalgic this morning, not sure why. But I may as well share a little piece of my nostalgia, eh?
I wish I was back on the Lochranza ferry
With long legged Keefy
Breathing the spray and the sweet island air of the morning
But I'm wasting away in this sweltering prison
The mercury's rising
And freedom's a dream that arrives and escapes with the dawning
I won't leave this link up very long, but if you want to hear the accompanying song running ...
April 19, 2007
CinemaSlam got a mention in the
New York Times! Too bad it wasn't for something more pleasant:
Michigan Arts Groups Protest State Freeze
Groups representing Michigan’s public museums, theaters, music halls and other cultural institutions plan to rally at the state capital in Lansing today in hopes of lifting a freeze on state spending for the arts. The moratorium was ordered last month by the state’s governor, Jennifer M. Granholm, as part of efforts to head off a $686 million budget deficit. State law requires that any deficit must be wiped out by the end of the state’s fiscal year on Sept. 30. The governor’s action affects about $7.5 million of $10 million in ...
April 16, 2007
You've decided to commit tax fraud! What will you spend all that money on instead?
I'd get a new tv - something big, but not too big, flatscreen, HD, the most gorgeous display I could find.
(From
Consumating)
What we wake up to:
Music & Company, a CBC Radio 2 morning program with a humorous host who makes classical music fun again. Listen on 89.9 in SE MI from 6am to 9am, or live on the web up through noon.
April 15, 2007
I've been mucking around with this for what seems like forever now, but here it is, the new design. If you're reading a feed reader, please do take a moment to pop in!
Not all the pages are completely populated with proper information yet, but I'm going to burst if I don't get this thing out into the wild. I'll be cleaning up and adding more content as things go along.
This is actually a beta level design - I plan to add more bells & whistles using some of the things I learned about at SXSW and have since been
reading up on. I may change the layout at that time, too, if I get significant feedback one way or ...
A movie which doesn't know who its audience is. Styled for kiddies, but a non-linear narrative leaves them scratching their heads and there's not near enough fart jokes to keep them entertained. Grown-ups get the story, but no clever jokes or innuendo to keep them entertained. What a complete miss.
April 7, 2007
Hacked it all off, I did. Well, I didn't do any hacking per se - the lovely Renay over at
Serendipity Salon did the cutting, and I am now the proud wearer of a totally rocked out coif.
I haven't worn it this short in a long, long time. Twenty years, maybe? I was due for a big change. Renay noted that I didn't flinch as the long locks fell to the floor. Nope, I've been needin' it. Feelin' it. And I've got it now.
I reread
Bernice Bobs Her Hair (by F. Scott Fitzgerald) this morning. It's a funny story. And it's funny to think that short hair on women was ...
April 6, 2007
The cheap wine at Trader Joe's is always so appealing in the store. Such pretty labels, such promising words on the little cards - our store has now taken to putting up little country of origin flags, so it's like traveling the world for $5 a bottle.
But the $5 a bottle jet lag is a killer. My head's fuzzy, my eyes are tired - and it's only 8:45am. I should have taken the non-stop flight.
April 3, 2007
How would you like to be fooled?
I like to be fooled by magicians. Not the bizarro David Blaine-make-an-airplane-'disappear' types - I can't enjoy those big tricks, can't suspend my disbelief high enough to enjoy them. But I do so very much enjoy good sleight of hand - making cards and rings and coins and hankies appear and disappear in the amusing mystery of legerdemain. I don't want to know how they do it, even if they were willing to tell. I enjoy the fooling, the last little bit of childish 'how'd they do that?' not kicked out of my brain by school and physics textbooks and various other life experiences that tell me they shouldn't ...
