I Never Promised You an Organic Garden

Yet another fun video by the cast of the Guild:

Here is yet another iPad parody.  This time in the form of a song.  It is a little long but a must view… especially for all you Michael Jackson fans out there.

The folks at Blendtec have jumped on the iPad bandwagon just like so many others this weekend.  But what they do with it goes way beyond jailbreaking:

This evening I attended the Blog Indiana event at Indiana University East sponsored by Summersault Website Development.  Brad J. Ward, CEO of BlueFuego — a web-based higher education marketing and recruitment company — gave a presentation on the future of social media.  It was an interesting presentation and Brad was a good presenter.  While I didn’t really hear anything new about social media and networking, I did come away with one bit of anecdotal information that could come in handy. (more…)

Thanks to Gadgettes, I found out today that Barbie is now a GEEK.  After an online vote, it was decided that Barbie’s new career would be Computer Engineer.  This is Barbie’s 125th career (wow, can we say indecisive) and the first that was decided by an online vote.

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The long awaited day has finally arrived.  Droidmas has finally come.  I am now the proud new owner of a Motorola Droid.  No longer a coveter of my friends’ and family’s smart phones.

I have had my new phone for 2 whole days now and I am feel like I have a good feel for it.  So I will share my first impressions of the phone.  I am sure over time some of these will change, but for now, here’s how I like it. (I LOVE it).

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I know most people won’t recognize all the fabulous web/tech celebrities but this is still a fun video.  Who can pass up puppies:

As I finish  knitting projects (most recently a baby sweater and set of  wash cloths), I record my new projects in Ravelry.  Ravelry is a perfect union of two of my strongest areas of interest: knitting and the internet.  It is an online community for knitters and crocheters that goes way beyond social networking. Ravelry allows its users to post and track projects, search patterns, store information about stashed yarn, search forums, keep a list of needles owned, join groups, see what others are making, comment on other users’ projects, and much much more.

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While I was on my blogging hiatus, I added a new gadget to my collection:  A red Lenovo IdeaPad S10, 10 inch netbook.  I have been wanting a laptop for some time now, but the idea of lugging around a 15 inch or 17 inch behemoth never appealed to me.  They are far too heavy and unwieldy.   So I began to covet the Lenovo X-series laptops that are direct competitors to the Macbook Air.  They have a big screen, are super light weight, and have lots of power; however, they are ridiculously expensive.  This is where the new Lenovo netbooks came into the picture.

Matt mentioned off-hand one night when we were discussing “the lap top of my dreams” that I should just get a netbook. After some thorough online research, I agreed with him whole heatedly, and eight months later I absolutely love my Lenovo s-10.

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I just completed an online survey hosted by A List Apart gathering information about what it is like to “be the people who make the websites”.  This is one of the fastest growing fields in the country, and A List Apart is gathering information to better demonstrate what it means to work in this profession.

So if are a designer, developer, information architect, project manager, writer, editor, marketer, or anyone else who makes websites, even you freelancers, I encourage you fill out the survey. It will only take a few minutes.