Too many progress bars, too little time
Site maintenance: I added a dedicated houseblog page to my site, which allowed me to put up a list of shame projects in progress, and also hopefully made the houesblog more visible than it was previously. I wanted to use the progress bars that Houseblogs.net provides (as seen on HouseInProgress), but didn’t want to allow [...]
A date with IKEA
Pavement-influenced post title aside, this might be more aptly described as IKEA as Mail Order Bride. Lisa and I are practically on tenterhooks for the 2006 catalog, and frantic to get an updated Kitchen Planning Tool. I feel like I did back in 1982 when I was waiting for my exclusive mail order Admiral Ackbar [...]
Speaking of deserving people making good
Back in 1996, when Eva Cassidy died, who would have predicted that she would be #5 on the list of Amazon’s top selling musicians in their first ten years in business? She beat out Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, and the Rolling Stones; she also beat the Dave Matthews Band, Josh Groban, Celine Dion, Johnny Cash, [...]
Ladies and gentlemen, start your cooktops
Following a link from Blogorelli, I was delighted to see that Julie Powell’s book, Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen, is available for pre-order from Amazon. Go Julie! As a longtime reader of the great Julie/Julia Project, I’m, well, salivating in anticipation of having the chance to go through the [...]
Newspaper comics getting bigger
In other news, hell freezes over. Seriously, the launch of the Globe’s tabloid sized pullout, Sidekick, mostly makes me unhappy. In design and content it feels like a Mini Pages for adults. But having the comics strips at a readable size almost makes up for it (though the Globe’s comics selection is nothing to write [...]
