Arachne's Sister

The problematic situation I wrote about yesterday has a happy ending after all. At 8:30pm last night I was left a voicemail message from Nelson, a Customer Service Rep in a Phoenix, AZ office. Nelson was the last person I had spoken to that afternoon, and his message stated that he had been bothered... [More]

This afternoon I went online to purchase a ticket from USAirways to travel from LGA to visit my family in Pittsburgh. When I arrived at the website, I was asked if I would be willing to try their new website. When I clicked “Yes”, I was redirected to the new site (www2.usairways.com) and went throug... [More]

Victor and I belong to a local CSA (Community Supported Agriculture program) which brings us tons of fresh, ripe, local, organic produce each week. Yum! The past few weeks have provided peaches, plums and nectarines in our fruit share. One particular variety of peaches I just want to mention specifi... [More]

On Sunday I was invited by my good friend and stylist Monica Diaz to a Trunk Show for an awesome NYC-based designer, Roxi Suger and her line called AngelRox. Roxi’s fun, versatile designs are also eco-friendly and are sewn with fair labor practices, which makes them doubly cool.

If you have spent any time doing web development or updating your blog or website using some sort of Content Management System,  you have likely come across the problem of converting MS Word files into HTML code. It seems like it would be a simple operation – Word does include a “Save As Webpag... [More]

I love Content Management Systems and now always use them for my clients’ websites – no matter how “small” their site is.  If you are thinking about moving to a CMS for your website, I say GO FOR IT! The flexibility it offers is totally worth it. There are a lot of opti... [More]

  If you plan on having a business based solely online, Blogging to the Bank 3.0 is a good, quick way to get started with a proven business plan. At only 58 pages, it is a quick read, but everything is presented in a step-by-step manner which even a technology novice should be able to fol... [More]

Still questing for the best in desktop blogging tools... ScribeFire installs into the Firefox browser, which is interesting because you can click between tabs in the upper area, while editing your posts below: But this means you are dealing with a squished web browsing experience as w... [More]

So, here is another desktop blogging tool I am testing. Let’s see how it stacks up. Account Setup To use with BlogEngine.Net, you need to choose "MetaWeblog API" and I had a bit of trouble because it asks you to point to a file called XML-RPC: Setting up P... [More]

w.bloggar is a desktop blogging tool. Since I am looking for ways to make blogging easier and more fun, this is a test post & review. Account Setup This is one of the very few blogging tools which specifically has support for BlogEngine.Net blogs, which can be chosen as the blog service when... [More]