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Baby, Claire, Motherhood, Parenting, Personal, Relationships

Just in case you weren't aware, today marks an important holiday for the Asian community: lunar new year. This year is the year of the rabbit, and while I hardly pay attention to astrology (western or eastern), I can't help but share this awesomely cute picture with you: (image source) Because today is such an important day in the Chinese culture, J took the day off from work. And he gave me the best new year's day present — He took the baby out with him to dim sum and left me all by myself. For three, GLORIOUS hours. (Well, the dog was home too but let's just pretend he wasn't there for the sake of the story.) You guys, I can't tell you how...

Blogging, Geek, Personal, Tutorials, Web, WordPress

WordPress for the Everyday Blogger:
Part 1 – Setting Up

Feb 03. 2011

Now we get to the nitty gritty fun: developing your own WordPress theme! To make things a bit easier on myself — and for my readers so that they can see a live sample — I will detail how I built the theme I am currently using: (From now on I am going to assume that you have some knowledge of HTML and CSS. If you do not, I really, REALLY recommend that you learn! I truly believe that even a BASIC understanding of HTML and CSS will help you out tremendously as a blogger. Go check out W3Schools for some great tutorials. What about PHP — the language that WordPress is based on? You do not need to know PHP to build...

Art/Design, Blogging, Geek, Personal, Relationships, Web

Meet Mr. Geek in Heels…

Feb 02. 2011

I always have a gazillion projects en queue in my head, am usually in the middle of several at once in real life. A couple of weeks ago, when J mentioned that he was thinking about blogging again (he was quite an avid blogger when we first became friends), I enthusiastically endorsed the idea and even thought of a great domain name for him. What he didn't know was that I had a mini-project brewing in my head since that night — — a brand new spankin' blog, tailored just for him! Meet Mister Geek in Heels: I will unveil the URL once he fills it with some content. We are now a blogging couple!...

Entertainment, Geek, Infographics

Transformers: Cars to Autobots Infographic

Feb 02. 2011

Carinsurance.org has created an infographic which illustrates the cars behind the Autobots. I didn't watch Transformers much as a kid (I preferred the likes of Thundercats and Masters of the Universe), but J tells me that it was one of his favorite cartoon shows while growing up...