Ah, the web designer’s dilemma: when to declare a site is finished and ready to go live! With a straight HTML site, this is easy…you move the files to the live server (from your testing server) and your site is live. With a WordPress site, it’s a bit more complicated to transfer files from a [...]
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Stumbled upon this lovely example of street embroidery from Barcelona, Spain. The cross-stitched dog and other designs were embroidered on a long railing/fence in a beautiful park in the heart of the city. A perfect grid surface, a little colorful rope/string, some creative folks and we have a wonderful piece of street art. For more [...]
(Here’s a little poem I wrote in 1996 whilst carrying on a wonderful long distance relationship via email. Back in the days of America Online and dial-up modems!) Send. Goodbye. Thousands of thoughts, feelings condensed into seconds of electronic blips. Welcome. You’ve Got Mail! Millions of miles away, you read my words, you enter my [...]
I thoroughly enjoyed Katarina Mazetti’s novel Benny and Shrimp. This quirky love story follows the relationship of Desiree, an urban-dwelling fastidious librarian (nicknamed Shrimp), and Benny, a milk farmer who works too hard to settle down. This a real-life romance with all the lovely firsts at the beginning, the arguments and compromising in the middle, [...]
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