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make me feel good. Thank you for reading, thank you for voting, thank you for encouraging. But dude, I'm feeling weird about entering that contest now. I'm ready for it to be over, so I can have the manuscript back...

We've been making barbecue all day - pulled pork and brisket. And the soundtrack for barbecue is, what else, Kings of Leon. So here's some live KOL for all of you. Pictures of the cue later.

Bug Labs (a Union Square Ventures portfolio company) launched its new website this week and the details of the hardware and software are now out in the open. Engadget has the details if you want a quick summary. Or go...

Go see Death at a Funeral. Josh and I went with my mom and dad last night and Josh and I were falling all over each other laughing and kicking. It's about a funeral where things go haywire. It slapstick,...

You have to hand it to the people over at Facebook. They pay attention to what's going on in their community and when something is out of hand, they fix it. Everyone knows that the race to get the most...

I put my photos online at Flickr and occasionally directly on this blog. My girls put their photos at Facebook. My niece puts hers on Facebook too. The Gotham Gal occasionally puts photos up at Flickr and on her blog....

Josh is obsessed with this song. He puts it on everytime we get in the car and plug in the iPod. No Backbone - Lemonheads with J Mascis What's funny is that I posted this song last August when I...

Sometimes you write a post asking for something and then months later you find someone has actually built it. That happened with my desire for a Flickr/Twitter integration that I posted about in June. By early August Dave Winer had...

Ever since Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was rejected by their label at the time, Reprise, Wilco's been showing the way forward for bands. Most people know the YHF story. They bought the record back from Reprise for $50k, started streaming it...

So last Tuesday, Michele and Janice M. both pointed me in the direction of a First Romance Novel Competition. A site called Gather.com has teamed up with Simon & Schuster and Borders to hold a kind of American Idol competition...

The answer to that questions is of course you can. I still love Howard using that question to announce the sale of Wallstrip. And that also points out that blogging pays its dividends a bit less directly than straight publishing....

It's a day off -- finished my work week well and feeling strong, if tired. But because I get up at 4:30am on work days, it's hard for me to sleep past 9am on days off, and that's if I...

In addition to hosting the first board meeting since we invested, Twitter did two really big things this past week that I think are going to make the service a lot more useful to me (and hopefully you). They are...

I have friends who loved music in high school and college, would spend hours going through the bins at the record store, and would hang out all night playing music and talking about music. And some of these friends barely...

Cracking open the Sofia Coppola Blanc de Blancs sparkling wine (let's just call it champagne, shall we? Flout the Treaty of Versailles). It comes with its own straw! Champers in a can! Just the thing to celebrate, don't you think?

Ha! I didn't mean to post that sweater picture today -- I had preblogged it while I was recovering, and I must have put it on the wrong day. What I'm going to post today is this: **Hours before: Now...

Keith Benjamin, who was a wall street analyst when I first met him almost 10 years ago, has posted twice in the past week and a half about the impact the "credit crunch" could have on tech IPOs and venture...

My original post on this topic, which is still on the front page of google when you search for unlocked iphone, suggested we'd have an unlocked iPhone by July 5th. It took a month and a half longer, but we...

I just typed The End. For the first time, I typed The End. It's not really the end, it's the beginning of revisions. But I did it. I am so happy. I have a completed novel. My tongue is tingling....

Gauntlets. Running. No connection, surely?

So my friend Emily, designer of many beautiful patterns, including Coachella, left me a comment saying she wasn't THAT interested in Ravelry, since she knit her own designs. I hear that, oh, yes. But out of the spirit of fun,...

In this first of two articles on bringing your content to the iPhone, the Iconfactory's Craig Hockenberry offers detailed guidance on tuning your site for the hot new phone, and making changes that can enhance even non-iPhone-users? experience. Hotcha!

 

Hide Your Shame: The A List Apart Store and T-Shirt Emporium is back. Hot new designs! Old favorites remixed! S, M, L, XL. Come shop with us!

Ten years ago, Håkon Wium Lie and Bert Bos gave us typographic control over web pages via CSS. But Verdana and Georgia take us only so far. Now Håkon shows us how to take web design out of the typographic ghetto, by harnessing the power of real TrueType fonts.

 

Hide Your Shame: The A List Apart Store and T-Shirt Emporium is back. Hot new designs! Old favorites remixed! S, M, L, XL. Come shop with us!

Confession: I have recently started a writing blog. It's HERE, and it's based on the Treadmill Journal idea I stole from PoMo Golightly (through the writing group in Ravelry! Yay!). It's boring, mostly, and only documents my own writing angst,...

Which bright spark thought of this one?

You would think I would have blogged this before, but I kept forgetting. But if you're in the southern California area, you HAVE to go see the girls this week -- they're fantastically fun, and great musicians, and they smell...

I have a new coffee-shop! That is just so exciting to me. I'm well enough now to ride my bike there, which is thrilling to me. Maybe you're a bike rider, so you won't understand, but ohmygod, riding a bike...

Curried horse? Surely not?

Still on the mend! This is being blogged from my writing/yarn room, from my chair, which feels like a big step from being in bed. I have learned some things. I am a bad patient. Or, really, I'm not that...

I succumbed. I have NO idea what was holding me back. But I've fallen into the Ravelry hole, and god help me, I can't get out. For those of you knitters not using Ravelry yet, let me tell you a...

T, tee, tea?