Wow, it's been years since i could access the site properly. Thanks to my shiny new Firefox install which works so much better than either my ancient ie that's all this little netbook will run or Google Chrome which appears to have decided that I am an alien life form who doesn't deserve web access at all. So, now i can read and post to LJ stuff ( Read more... )

Senator Leahy issued a press release regretting the delay of the Protect IP Act. Below is my response ( Read more... )

it's funny how your size can vary so much. I don't mean your physical, embodied size, I mean the space you take up in the world and in your life ( Read more... )

Sharing with those who haven't seen my linking to it on FB because it's so very delicious. Enjoy!

And so, after eight and a half tumultuous years of a very full and worthy life in California, I have returned to the land of my birth, to a place with four true seasons. Again, the taste of real apple cider fills my mouth like the kiss of a long-lost love. Again, the evening's chill after the day's warmth reminds me that the warmth is fleeting. ( Read more... )

Every year around this time, I start feeling the pull of change coming. This year, it's especially strong. Our lives are changing in major ways, and I can't see the end of things at the moment to know how it's all going to work out ( Read more... )

The problem: I want to be able to swipe credit cards using the authorize.net gateway which is where my merchant account is. They have a virtual terminal into which I can type credit card info, but this is tedious, and I get charged a higher transaction rate. However, whenever I try swiping a card, the browser session crashes and recovers without ( Read more... )

I am conducting an unscientific poll to determine how folk would feel about their massage therapist working barefoot. I'm considering this for myself as a health matter, but I have no sense how prevalent it is in the field (I'm asking for those data elsewhere but other body workers here may chime in) and how people would feel about it. Assume ( Read more... )

I was pointed to this piece of amazing, powerful writing from 2007. Along with several other pieces I've read in the wake of the great Pantheacon gender debates, I have been confronted with the undeniable fact that I know so much less about gender and the experience of others around gender than I thought I knew. This is at once disheartening, as ( Read more... )

I make no promises as to the accuracy of my typing or spelling in this entry, as i am in recovery from visiting the Sacramento Beer Festival this afternoon. As a craft brewer it was my duty to stay caught up on the state of the art of brewing in the region I live in, so I manfully took on the burden of tasting representatives of several of the ( Read more... )