Last week I went to hear Guy Kawasaki at the Houston Technology Center here in Houston, where he spoke about the Art of the Start. It was AWESOME. You may not know this about me, but I’m a total marketing and sales junkie. My all-time favorite job ever when working for someone [...]
I needed a change, and thanks to the fabulous talents of Derek Powazek and a little code-fu of my own, I have one. Code-fu which even involved CSS, because the center column wasn’t 500 pixels wide, so my photos were messing up the page. 500 pixels is the default medium size from Flickr, [...]
Now that Mike & I both have new computers, it is interesting to see how we use them from the ground up. The night we opened them, we spent the same amount of time on them - doing very different things. He went right into downloading things, getting it all set up just [...]
For YEARS people have said to me, “So, you’re a photographer - so you use a Mac, right?”
Uhm, no? They make all the same software for a PC, and I that is what I’ve always used. I married a PC geek. We have lots of Windows machines in our house. More [...]
So Google is at it again. A few weeks ago, I noticed a sudden drop in my Google pagerank on this site. Seems Google didn’t like that I had text link ads on my sidebar. Now? If you do a search for something that should bring up ScriptyGoddess as a result, [...]
First, I didn’t want an iPhone.
Then they lowered the price, and the gadget geek in me started to toy with the idea. I mean, just think! I could use it to show people my portfolio, no matter where we were! (This may be completely unrealistic, because I have no idea how it [...]
Years ago, I set up WinAmp to generate a list of what I last listened to that then uploaded itself to my server and displayed on my blog sidebar. It was pretty sweet. Now I almost never listen to music through the computer since I work at home, so there is no point. [...]
I know the geekosphere is clamoring for the iPhone. Everyone seems to want one. Well, everyone but me.
I don’t want one, and it is for one very specific reason - the reason that Apple says is the cool thing about it. It has no buttons. No keys for dialing a number. [...]
I adore Twitter. I’ll admit it. I liked sending updates from my phone while I was at SXSW this year, and I’m now hooked. If you don’t already follow me on Twitter, feel free to add me so I can add you too! And now, if you can’t get enough Twitter, [...]
In today’s climate, it is very important to have a personal brand. It will make you memorable to the people that meet you, and networking is very key no matter what you do for a living, and even outside of work.
I came across two items today that can help you define your personal brand, [...]
I mentioned when I returned from SXSW that I had learned about Scrapblog while I was there. I had this total fangirl moment when I met Hugh MacLeod, and after I settled down I then spoke with Alex and he explained to me somewhat how it all worked. Of course, it didn’t make [...]
I’m doing the happy dance right now, as I just discovered that Flickr has added the option of getting an e-mail whenever someone comments on your photos, or once a day with a comment summary. Sweet! It is one of those “wishlist” items I have had for a long time with Flickr.
There are [...]
Over the past few weeks (ok, years, but it has been really heavy the past few weeks), I have heard the term Web 2.0 tossed around a lot. Thank goodness for Wikipedia, I finally found a definition:
Web 2.0, a phrase coined by O’Reilly Media in 2004,[1] refers to a perceived second generation of web-based [...]
Before I started knitting and went back to school, I used to post a lot about geek related topics. Over time, between the crafty side and school work, my focus on that has dropped off - at least on this blog. (In reality, it is not something I can let go of - [...]
I will be expanding this post in the future, but as I find handy things for the Pearl that I like, I will post them here on my site. So far we have:
- How to put Video on your Pearl - It is Katherine’s fault that I own a Pearl now, because she told [...]
Refresh Houston is meeting on Monday night; a special meeting with H-Town’s very own Photomatt! (We still get to claim him even though he lives in California now, right?) What is Refresh Houston?
Refresh Houston is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical and professional culture of new media [...]
I don’t normally cross-post between this site and Pointy Sticks, but I had to share my crafty goodness from SXSW. This is normally a geek festival, and I went in part for reasons related to the podcast and in part related to Fresh Photography. It ended up being so very, very much more. [...]
In getting ready for the geekfest that is SXSW, I thought I would point out some fun sites that you might or might not know about that are handy, plus fun. And not at all geeky - they are much more for social networking.
- Upcoming.org - allows you to set up an event for [...]
I’ve been working on this on my hard drive, so I was totally psyched to see that it works ON THE SERVER!
It is nowhere near its finished form, and by the time you look at it it might be rather different than it is right now (since every album has the exact same images in [...]
I drank my first caffienated cola last night in almost two weeks.
I always used to say that caffiene had NO effect on me, and that I could drink a cola and then go to bed. No effect at all.
I learned last night that if I drink cola at 10pm at night, I will still [...]
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