Turns out my site wasn’t working in IE. I don’t have time to invest in fixing it right now, so it’s back to the default until I find the time! Blah.

If you view this blog on site as opposed to a reader you will see it looks different. We have switched to Wordpress and it’s functioning, if not pretty. Functioning is good.

There’s lots of tweaking to do, and I know for sure I’ve lost one comment that came in after we did a data dump (sorry Tania!), but otherwise everything should be here. I hope. I have no idea what to do for a header. I’m just out of ideas at the moment. Boring life == boring header?

Now.. to remember what it was I was going to write about for the past two weeks. And pictures! I have pictures to post. If I can just find some time on the photo computer.

So how many unread emails do you have in your inbox? I have 459. Eek. Why doesn’t Google have a filter where you can just see the unread ones? I can’t be arsed to flip through pages looking for the bold emails. Sigh.

Side note: I have 1111 spam messages. I just love a nice number.

I cannot seem to comment on Blogger anymore. The window just spins and spins and never fully loads. So if you have a Blogger blog, I may have been trying to comment on it but can’t. Bah!

Google Reader is making me feed-happy. I add things willy nilly to see if they’re interesting, and delete when they’re not. Without anyone getting offended. Nice!

The next round of things to get added have been to do with homeschooling. Since we’re interested in this, I find myself wondering… what does a homeschooling life look like? What better way to discover it than from the words of those living it? Should be an interesting reading experiment, anyway. I haven’t added any to the sidebar links yet.. we’ll see what stays and what goes first :)

Unlikely, but hey, if anyone has any favorite homeschooling (or other, for that matter, like knitting or food) blogs I’d love to hear about ‘em. Gotta feed the feed additiction. Thanks!

I am not a fan of WYSIWYG editors in general. I’d rather do the HTML myself and know that it’s going to work and be accurate. I approve of those editors that let me dump content into the WYSIWYG part and then let me switch to the HTML side to finish things off properly, like Dreamweaver.

However, for ye ole blog, it’s just a basic HTML editor. Which is normally fine, but sometimes…. I long for the WYSIWYG. For example, the post below has a picture in it. I have to do a table to get the picture to align properly and frankly, it’s a PITA. I’d rather just dump stuff into the editor and let it be. Sigh.

It’s high time for a redesign. I’m getting sick of clutter — strange, but true. Extra pages on a site annoy me, just like scrolling annoys me. Clean, simple, to the point. That’s the goal.

So I have gotten rid of the strange navigation. Never was happy with it and now I have decided it’s totally pointless.

I’ve just spent far too long adding blogs to my blogroll list. Google Reader doesn’t seem to employ any easy way to do this (unlike Bloglines — I guess they want to drive traffic to your own “personal” space on their servers) but blech. It needs to be here. Will be a PITA to upkeep two lists, but I will endeavor to do so. Besides, sometimes Google’s site is just sloooow so it might be nice to be able to go to my own site for links every once in a while. Although with the addictive power and beauty of feeds, no doubt the Google Reader list will always be more up to date. It’s just so easy to add stuff that you run across at random!

I hope to have a new look coming, but I am finding it difficult to find the time to work on that. It involves sitting at a computer for longer than two seconds without little hands creeping over the keyboard and doing things like hitting tab and caps lock. Soon, I hope.

If I’ve missed you on the blogroll list, please let me know! It’s a little early to be thinking coherently here, but it’s the only time I’ve got in peace.

H’s Macbook is on the blitz. Just up and died. It’s practically brand new! H’s work apple laptop has also had to get fixed recently.. maybe even twice, my memory eludes me. The work laptop is the same edition, if you will, as mine. Gulp.

The Yarn Harlot’s laptop has also gone to ghose recently. Her laptop that died before that? The same version as mine. This one was newer. Gulp gulp.

My first laptop lasted years. Literally years; it still works actually it’s just that at some point H showed me how fast it ought to be running, that in fact waiting several minutes for things to load was no longer acceptable. So I got a new one, whee! I daren’t type what you know I’m thinking now. Knock on wood. If apple’s are dying left and right though, would we continue to plow money into them? Good question. Worthy question.

The problem is I cannot fathom my life without my Mac. I love my Mac. I love OS X. I do not want to go back to PCs. I also can’t imagine going Linux, which is what H would do I can only assume. I have some PC software I like, namely Photoshop, which I suppose would be nice to have on my laptop again (currently I have to go to the actual desktop to use it). But still.. ugh…. PCs. Sniff. I really like my Mac.

I am troubled. Deeply, deeply troubled.

I posted a few days ago about switching to feeds using the oft recommended Google Reader. I have to say I am *very* pleased.

I am mostly happy because every day there have been a few of my “crafty” blogs to read. Just two or three, nothing major, but enough to give me that inner sigh of happiness at all the beautiful things in the world. I also like it because before I would troll through other people’s lists and used up a ridiculous amount of time just clicking only to see nothing new. When I set up feeds, I just added anyone and everyone that looked remotely interesting, figuring if things got boring, or conversely overwhelming, I could easily delete them from the feeds list. Turns out this was a fabulous idea because now I have a wealth of crafty blogs to read, but not too much. Yay!

I’ve also started adding foody blogs for the same reasons — but those people post a lot more!

If anyone has any favourite blogs I’d love to hear about them.. I can add them and then manage my time for myself. Yippee!

I tried Bloglines out a while ago. It was good, but it was addictive. I was subscribing to everything I could get my hands on. It became too much. I quit.

But now I find myself stealing other people’s blogrolls. I cannot stand to add to my own, so I go off to other people’s websites and read their blogrolls. It’s getting ridiculous.

So finally, at 6am this morning when I cannot sleep, I read about Google Reader. (Which is bizarrely hard to find on their website. Anyway.) And it occured to me I wouldn’t have to spend half so much time trolling other sites and waiting for stupid ads to load if I used a reader again.

Well, it’s worth a shot. I am seriously out of the loop, people.

So, I signed up. So far it’s promising. Unfortunately I *am* adding knitting blogs like all I do is read knitting blogs, but dammit, they are so inspiring! Plus they don’t seem to post all that often so I should spend less time looking for new entries and just enjoying them when they pop up, right? Besides, how else am I supposed to fill my wishlist for next year without inspiration? :)

I have high hopes that I will be able to dest my entire links page at some point. Wouldn’t that be nice? I could have one of those lovely, laidback and simple designs with just a few bits and bobs on the side, but otherwise no extra miscellaneous content. And better yet, no ugly navigation bar. A girl can dream.

Speaking of, totally time for a redesign but I’m really clueless as to what to do. This background has never really worked but I never could be arsed to fix it. I have an idea for the Boo’s site, but not for my own. Hmm.