Here be dragons.
Quick and Dirty Tips is a network of blogs and podcasts I wandered into today. It looks good and I like the addition of podcasts. If you are looking for a network to write for take a look. I noticed no one is doing a home and garden theme yet.
I came to it through Grammar Girl.
“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out” Winston Churchill.
In short, “shut up”. He was just more polite.
I just sent a love letter to my nephew. He is 13, taller than I am and full of muscles from sports he has been doing. So strange to think of him as a young man versus the little towheaded boy I looked after. He is being bugged by his parents and Grandmother and family friends about what he will do this summer.… Read the rest
The easy way to design your own Twitter background. It’s free but gives you a small banner at the top left corner with the Free Twitter Designer.com name.
You could also use it to make a blog background if you keep it simple.
Question – If you could hire a professional writer for your blog, would you choose to do so or keep writing your own content for yourself?
Canucklehead – I would continue to write myself. Visitors of Canucklehead have come to expect and in an odd way enjoy the mindless, barely legible way I write and I’m afraid writing that was in any way professional would frighten and/or confuse them.… Read the rest
Fish like being watered. Not a heavy, hard water but a light, gentle water. They swim all around the water from the hose when I spray them. Just love it! I think someone should design a theme park for goldfish, just those in ponds cause the goldfish in bowls are just too tanked to really appreciate a good theme park.… Read the rest
ProBlogger posted about making a linking post. In his list of styles of link posts was One Question Interviews.
… Read the restOne Question Interviews – this one takes a little co-ordination and advanced planning but is when you shoot a question out to another blogger (or bloggers) to get their perspective on a topic relevant to your readers.
I posted about harajuku girl fashion in my personal blog. It was fun to see the photos of these girls especially. There is such a wide variety of clothes, styles and art involved.
One point I came away with is “Mix and match – harajuku style is about visually and mentally refreshing contrasts” (Quoted from Mooky Chick’s post about harajuku fashion). … Read the rest
