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By ~LS~ On May 12, 2012 · Add Comment · In Capitalism, Random Musings and tagged Tagged With: Blogging, Capitalism, Consumption, Money, Pets, Voxygen

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By ~LS~ On February 25, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Generations, Pop Culture, Technology, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Age, Blogging, Generations, Hillary, Technoculture, Voxygen

I’m waiting for Typekit to populate/propagate my font. I’m using Cooper. It’s been some time since I’ve blogged. There’s so much to say I don’t know where to begin. I’ll just chalk it up to a lost and found year. The font makes the webdesign. I have to finish rebooting things here.

As always, the design reflects things about my life too numerous to go into. For instance, I tried to de-clutter and get things squared away into a single-file simple column. I failed. However, things did get shoved to the bottom, all linky and soldier-like, messy in an orderly fashion, but overwhelming from a big-picture perspective.

The Sells-Jaros household is now just the Sells household. The Jaros household will be a household with someone else. Quite surreal. The Sells household is also without the beloved Pach Du. That was a devastation too great to be accounted for – [...]

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A funeral for my e-texts page

By ~LS~ On October 20, 2010 · Add Comment · In The Web and tagged Tagged With: Blogging, Facebook, Voxygen

My first version of Voxygen was posted in 1996. It was fun building the most rudimentary webpage and exploring what could be done on the internet. Since then, things have changed so much so that I feel like I’m on another planet. Sometimes I wonder whether not I am suffering from “information fatigue.” Wondering? No…I know I am. I don’t feel the extreme levels of anxiety or sleeplessness that it presumably provokes. I have noticed, however, that I can’t keep up with Facebook — I bookmark hundreds of things my friends post and then spend too much time deleting them without reading any of them because the list is obscenely long. I no longer surf any of my usual reading spots. RSS readers have made blog surfing incredibly easy. The downside, however, is that with a simple click of a button, I flood my RSS reader with [...]

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Spam comments

By ~LS~ On September 14, 2010 · Add Comment · In The Web and tagged Tagged With: Blogging, Voxygen

Thank God for Akismet keeping my blog clean. I just now reviewed some of the posts trapped in the Akismet toilet bowl. Hysterical. Some trends I’ve noticed include

1. People who are obviously not native English speakers posting in Engrish. The errors are amusing. Yet I have to wonder if some SEO company is outsourcing spam comments along the lines of third world WoW gold farmers.

2. The usual “your post is interesting, you’re brilliant, I will come back and read you every day.” These comments are completely random and usually don’t fit the content of the post. I don’t find them amusing, just annoying.

3. The sneaky comments. These sound like they are actually commenting on your post at a glance but if you look at the email address or web address of the poster it’s clearly a spammer. Luckily, Akismet catches these too.

4. The “hey, why’d you [...]

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WordPress 3

By ~LS~ On August 19, 2010 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda), The Web and tagged Tagged With: Blogging, Goals, Voxygen

One of my summer goals was to learn WordPress 3 and convert my websites to the new platform. I did master some of the basics of the new WordPress, but I didn’t get the chance to do the conversion. I set up my website for my classes (laurasells.net), though, and I was quite pleased that I could figure it all out. WordPress 3 was complicated until I got the hang of it.

I used the Hybrid theme framework, which made a huge difference.The Hybrid theme framework is free, but any support beyond the basic installation is only available if you buy a membership to the forums. That’s a disappointment and it rubs against my desire for open source free information.

One thing I do like about the new platform is that it incorporates many of the plugins I use. That’s a relief. I still don’t understand [...]

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WordPress 3

By ~LS~ On June 18, 2010 · Add Comment · In The Web and tagged Tagged With: Blogging, Voxygen

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