Ab’s Blog

for I have returned from an offline vacation just as the NY Times article is making the rounds of the blogosphere, and it is standing between me and all the quality blog posts further down the page.  I have no further comment, except to say that things are looking pretty good for the American League tonight… now that’s important.

If you haven’t taken an offline vacation yourself recently, may I suggest one?  I don’t mean no work; I mean no e-mail, no blogs, no web surfing.  I didn’t log on - except to reserve a boat ride - from Tuesday morning to Sunday night.  I wish the trip could have been longer, but six days of walking, hiking, boating, and eating seafood is enough to put things in perspective and provide sustenance for, um, reading a dozen posts about thrifty, tattoed librarians.

G2G - it’s bottom of the 9th, 5-4 and 1 out left!

It’s arguably been a while since I posted any truly useful content. But never fear, because now there is… The Daily Puppy!!! I have added The Daily Puppy as a widget in my sidebar. Look today or you might miss Brandy the Saint Bernard. I’m more of a cat person myself, but I’ve always had a soft spot for big dogs that still manage to look cuddly.

I’m intrigued by the proliferation of blog widgets and other blog add ons, since I rarely hop over to blogs from my feed reader unless the author mentions changes to the site or I know that the design gets updated frequently (e.g. dooce). I fiddle with my blog design mostly for my own amusement, to try out new things, and to give people finding the blog for the first time something interesting to look at. But I hardly expect that most of you see my site on a regular basis.

I feel like such a fuddy-duddy: I actually log in to WordPress to post to this blog. Library Clips has a list of over 15 ways to post. I’m going to try the browser extension. Via Lifehacker.

Rachel Singer Gordon asks, “What do people read outside the library field?”

• dooce - “I’m Heather B. Armstrong. This is my website.”
• A List Apart - “For people who make websites”
• Church of the Customer - by Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba, authors of Citizen Marketers and Creating Customer Evangelists
• National Geographic News - Jurassic crocodiles, interspecies mating, “Toyger” kitties.
• desire to inspire - “This blog was started so that we could share our favourite inspirational design photos with you”