I’ve recently needed to upgrade my work wardrobe, which was a trial until I decided to bite the bullet and buy clothes online. Then everything became much easier than I was expecting. Clothes! That look good and fit! Who knew?

That said, there are some knacks to shopping for clothes online -- things I had no idea about when I began -- so I thought I ( Read more... )

Recently, an anonymous commenter asked:

I too am an aspiring blog blogger but I'm still new to
the whole thing. Do you have any helpful hints for newbie blog
writers? I'd certainly appreciate it.
And as it happens, I do have some advice, although how helpful it is, I'll leave you to judge.

Before you start

There are two things I recommend you do before ( Read more... )

I've had a few people recently asking me about the video editor that I use with an eye to choosing one for themselves, so I've distilled the main issues into this post ( Read more... )

"We Must Be Killers" is not only my current favourite of all the vids I've made, it's one of the most technically complex vids I've edited, about on par with a constructed reality like "Movin' On". Hopefully you have no idea what I'm talking about right now, because if I've done my job right, you shouldn't even really notice that "We Must Be ( Read more... )

I'm not going to cross-post these non-fiction links about delicious to rec_room, but rather than delete them, I thought I'd make them available ( Read more... )

There are several reasons I have accounts on two social bookmarking sites. Mostly, I began by wanting a back-up site for my recs on delicious; but having now compared the functionality of diigo and delicious, diigo is the clear winner in nearly all respects.

Social bookmarkingIronically, delicious wins this category. I started out on delicious ( Read more... )