Jane McGrath, wife of the cricketer Glenn McGrath and founder of the McGrath Foundation, passed away yesterday. After (and during) her battle with Breast Cancer, Jane McGrath became a spokeswoman for breast cancer awareness, and actively worked to provide support for women with Breast Cancer in remote areas, where help is not readily available. She […]
Archives for 2008
Do you want people to correct your mistakes?
I asked this question on Twitter and actually got several replies in the time it took me to get from home to uni! Call me lame, but I thought this was exciting. 😛 Would you prefer to be told about weird grammatical mistakes on your blog? E.g. using the wrong preposition or missing out a […]
Square peg in a round hole
We’ve been trained to change ourselves to make ourselves fit into the cars that drive us to the buildings where we work in the jobs that we study for so that we have the right skill sets. And we wonder every day if who we are is good enough to be there. It’s the dilemma […]
Multiple WordPress Blogs
So many multiple blog requests There seems to be a lot of people wanting to know how to run multiple WordPress blogs. Some people want multiple blogs with one admin area, so it’s more convenient to post. Some people want multiple authors, each with their own blog. Some people want multiple blogs using the same […]
This isn’t a magazine: subscribing is free!
What does “subscribe” mean? How to increase your blog subscription rate by 254% suggests you shouldn’t use the word “subscribe” to entice people towards your RSS feed. Bloggers are used to the word and know what it means, especially when accompanied by an orange icon with two curves and a dot. How many other people […]
James Squire Brewhouse
Went out to James Squire Brewhouse on Friday night. I had thought a quiet night at home would be in order since I’d gotten up at 5:30am (very out of character for me), but I was a bit buzzed after handing in my essay and wanted to do something different. So, I met hubby at […]
