Laurabelle's Blog

My friend Maggie has a .plan, and she writes on it a lot. Basically, if I want to stay at all in touch with what's going on in her life, I have to read her .plan, because she very rarely emails. (Part of that's due to the fact that she has very high standards for [...]

People who spam by using comments or TrackBack are the scum of the earth. Just so you know. Yes, I got spammed that way today (on my other blog, not this one). Two identical comments, actually. I had been so sure I would never need to block any IP addresses, too, not that I think [...]

This time the blogging world (or at least the part of it that I read) is afire about an article that Clay Shirky wrote on the subject of power distributions between weblogs. Basically the idea is that in the same way as 20% of the population holds 80% of the wealth, a small percentage of [...]

I finally decided what I'm doing with the TrackBack URLs. They're going back to being links, because I went in and found where the error message stuff was coded (not all that hard, really), remembered to save a backup of the original file before I changed anything, and added some hopefully-helpful text, so that people [...]

Today was my second day volunteering up in Mountlake Terrace. Unfortunately I didn't get up there as early as I intended, partly because I kept just missing the time when I thought I should leave in order to catch the bus, and I didn't feel like walking almost a mile and then either waiting in [...]

Kevin doesn't understand why libraries are installing coffee bars instead of more books. He argues that the reason he doesn't use the library much is that it has very few books that he's interested in. I see his point, but I also see the reasoning behind coffee bars and other weird installations.

I agree with Dorothea that