Sometime in 1996, a Real Life friend pointed me to This web site. I met Internet Friend #1 there.
Archive for February, 2007
I got a notice from my web hosting service near the end of the year last year that they wouldn’t host me any more when my contract was up. I had to find a new hosting service, and a place to put my domain name.
While I was at it, I ported my blog over to Wordpress. I use WordPress over at The Cultural Hall, where I co-blog with a bunch of people about Mormon stuff. I like it a lot.
There are scripts and utilities to manage almost all this stuff, so it wasn’t difficult, just time consuming. The hardest part was choosing a new theme. I like this one, and it’s “widget ready,” which is how the recent comments and archives and posts and calendar get there so easily.
I found out during the conversion process that my most frequent commenter is Phoebe; #2 is Vegas Joe. I should send y’all some king cake or something. Congratulations, you two.
A web site I read pretty regularly, LifeHacker, had a post about a meal planning service. The comments asked for tools we use to help us prepare a meal when we’re suffering from Cantthinkofanythingtofix disease. I had all kinds of things to say on the subject, but it really didn’t fit their question: Can you suggest any other sites or newsletters that do the meal planning/shopping list thing for you? Instead of editing my ideas down to a comment about my routine, I decided to make a full-blown post about it.
Continue reading ‘But Before I Get Started on the Friends’
I’ve decided that I’m going to blog about my internet buddies. I’ve met some of the very coolest people in the world on the internet. Some of them I’ve even met. I will probably not use their names, unless they comment here with those names, and I will not reveal anything about them that isn’t on the internet for others to read right now. So Phoebe, your secrets are safe with me. And Randy, you have nowhere to hide.
There is one person for whom that restriction does not apply. He is my very first internet friend, and my very best friend. Y’all have read a little about him before, and I will write a little more about him later.
I noted this morning before I started work that Molly Ivins died yesterday. I did what probably several hundreds of women across the country did: I cried.
There’s really nothing to say about Molly that hasn’t been said by hundreds of other people, and much more eloquently than I could. All I can add is that her column in the liberal alternative paper in Lubbock was a bright glimmer in the Republican duststorm that is West Texas.
Molly’s death brought to mind another kick ass Texas woman who died not long ago - Ann Richards. I remember an interview she did with Katie Couric on PBS that was broadcast from the 92nd Street Y in New York. She was inspiring. She actually made me look FORWARD to getting older.
To bring the circle round: Molly Ivins remembers Ann Richards.
I miss you both.
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