Elysian Fields has expressed an interest in re-creating the BDB within their site.  I'm sure they would welcome any help anyone wants to contribute.  Anyone else who wants to incorporate the database into their own site as well, please let me know and I will send you a link to the php/database data archive I sent.  I stripped out the personality ( Read more... )

Long time, no post.  Just wanted to leave a note here yo say that I've finally decided it's time to stop renewing my web hosting account.  It would have been 20 years this winter, but for some reason the account expires Oct 22, so doesn't quite make a nice even number, but still... crazy.  25 years old then, 45 now!

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I know, I know, I never post anymore. But suddenly I realized I have been up to something some of you might be interested in, so I present:

The MuffinatorBasically I took the base muffin recipe that I've been using for years and turned it into a web form allowing you to generate (get it, Muffin(gener)ator? okay, a little weak, but I still like it ( Read more... )

A few projects from my new(ish) crafty site:


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I have reinvented my website: Dabbletree. The Buffy Dialogue Database ( Read more... )

In honor of mother's day, I bought 1 very mom-ish one-piece bathing suit. And 3 bikini tops with "wardrobe failure!" written all over them. Or possibly "sun burn city!" Now if we could actually get some warm weather sometime this decade, we will see which I will actually decide to wear in public...

It's not much, but it's a start:


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Google fu is failing me! I've been all over the internet trying to figure out exactly what is meant when you are instructed to plant a summer bulb in "spring". Late spring, after the last frost date? Which here in Chicago might as well be called early summer? Or much earlier, when you start seeing crocuses and it still might snow? Somewhere in ( Read more... )

I can't believe it's almost time to start planting indoors again. Seems like
a good time to look back at last year's methods and make a few plans for this
year.


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A few weeks ago, a friend introduced me to
oneprettything.com. I don't know whether to thank her or shake my fist angrily, because wow. This site is seriously dangerous to someone like me who never met a craft she didn't want to try. So far I seem to be spending more time obsessively saving links to projects to try in the near future than ( Read more... )