Garden Party
// June 29th, 2007 // No Comments » // tagged: video
Archive for June, 2007
Email Overload
// June 29th, 2007 // 1 Comment » // tagged: Work
I am feeling an email overload right now. It feels like it has been months since I have been able to look at my inbox without cringing because I know I have emails from FEBRUARY that I still haven’t tended to. Oh – I’ve read them. But as soon as I read them, I clicked MARK AS UNREAD because I didn’t have time at that moment to tend to what the email was requesting.
I have an email from March sitting in my inbox from a high-school friend I haven’t talked to in … 5 years … and it’s in it’s fourth “mark as unread” status.
I wish I could just delete my entire inbox an start fresh. I know it would pile up in only a matter of a day or so … but wow. The feeling of a fresh inbox with no ghostly reminders of tasks not yet completed.
A Wedding Bouquet
// June 27th, 2007 // No Comments » // tagged: Friends > Photos
My friend Jill and I did the bouquets and a few small arrangements for a friend’s wedding (it was our gift to her) – Congrats Kimberly & Matt!!
Jill and I are on the flower committee at church … and so we are used to doing HUGE flower arrangements and those don’t make us nervous … but bouquets are a totally different animal. Wedding flowers are … going to be photographed and scrap-booked for forevermore! They have to look just right!! Jill and I ended up putting flowers together … and then standing in front of a mirror holding them as the girls would — to make sure they looked like what a bouquet should look like.
I think they turned out pretty well … and the most important thing — Kimberly loved them. AND we got a steal on the flowers from our florist … we used the same wholesale place we use to get the flowers for our church arrangements … and so we did the bridal bouquet, 3 bridesmaid bouquets, 3 small table arrangements, 7 boutineres and 2 corsages for $220!! Not bad ;)
links for 2007-06-10
// June 10th, 2007 // No Comments » // tagged: Links
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put in local phone and it will tell you international codes to use to dial from any location; for reference;
25 Books That Leave a Legacy
// June 6th, 2007 // 1 Comment » // tagged: Books
USA Today’s “25 Books that leave a legacy” … (only looking at books from the past 25 years) including:
Harry Potter & The Sorcerer’s Stone (for obvious reasons)
The Da Vinci Code (on the list basically for it’s controversy)
And the Band Played On (excellent book … excellent movie)
Bridget Jones’s Diary (interesting choice … though their reasoning makes sense)
Left Behind (surprised this made the list … but I agree)
Fast Food Nation (a definite must read for everyone)
… and more. A few on the list that I haven’t read are now on my library hold list.
Top 50 Tourist Attractions
// June 6th, 2007 // No Comments » // tagged: Traveling
Bold the ones you’ve visited and post … Many of these are Japan, China, India … hope to one day visit Japan for sure!
1. Times Square, New York City, NY: 35 million visitors every year
2. National Mall & Memorial Parks, Washington, D.C. (Washington Monument, Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials,the war memorials): About 25 million 1999.
3. Disney World’s Magic Kingdom, Lake Buena Vista, Fla.: 16.6 million with family
4. Trafalgar Square, London, England: 15 million
5. Disneyland Park, Anaheim, Calif.: 14.7 million
6. Niagara Falls, Ontario and New York: 14 million – and they were frozen!
7. Fisherman’s Wharf/Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco, Calif.: 13 million
8. Tokyo Disneyland/DisneySea, Tokyo, Japan: 12.9 million
9. Notre Dame de Paris, Paris, France: 12 million.
10. Disneyland Paris, Marne-La-Vallee, France: 10.6 million
Movable Type 4 beta
// June 6th, 2007 // No Comments » // tagged: Movable Type
MT4 beta was released Monday …. I had a test install up and running by that night.
I’ve long been a supporter of Movable Type … it’s a fantastic content management system, with unreal online community support. I’ve been using MT in one form or another for almost five years now — either as blogging software — or even better — as a backend content management system for corporate clients. I’m a firm believer that MT can do whatever you need it to do … the possibilities are endless.
If you’re an MT user … and haven’t done a beta install (it’s definitely not ready for a production environment – it IS a beta, for users to install and give them feedback … they’re shooting for 3Q full release;) — I recommend giving it a whirl. Again … as a BETA release. It is *not* ready for a production environment (or atleast … not to my standards … I use quite a few plugins, custom code, integrations with other programs, etc … but if you just have a basic blog — go for it.)
Be sure to submit your feedback so the final 4.0 release can be even better …
