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Saturday, February 16, 2002 |
To do list:
Move blog to domain
Today I'm officially moving my blog to my domain name at http://www.TheShiftedLibrarian.com/. Hopefully this will be easier for everyone to remember, but please make sure you change your bookmarks anyway because the old site will no longer be updated. There may be a couple of minor kinks still hiding, so if you come across anything unusual, please let me know. For those of you subscribing to my RSS feed, please note that you should unsubscribe from the old one and subscribe to http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/rss.xml instead. And for those of you having problems subscribing to the feed, that's on my to do list, too.
Next major item on the to do list:
Create my own template for the site, ideally using a CSS-based layout (wish me luck!)
6:30:35 PM Permanent link here
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Today we took the kids to see Big Fat Liar. It was totally excellent and everyone loved it, including us adults. If you have kids of any age, two thumbs up. At the beginning of the movie, Frankie Muniz's 14-year old character is late for school, so he has to climb in through a window. He needs someone to distract the teacher though, so he uses his Cybiko to contact his friend Kaylee on her Cybiko and asks her to do it. I nearly did a Danny Thomas spit take.
In visiting the Cybiko site for the first time in a while (I still need to get to the store and look at the new "Xtreme" version), I noticed that it now comes with a WAP browser and they've got the MP3 player live.
5:32:07 PM Permanent link here
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This morning we were watching Saturday morning cartoons when we saw a commercial for Parkay's new blue- and red-colored, squeezable margarine. Icky. Of course, the kids loved it and they both want the blue one. And now we have a new phrase in our house - the "parent gross-out factor."
Here's the kicker, though. I wanted to find out more about this stuff, so I went to www.parkay.com, which doesn't exist. I tried www.parkaymargarine.com, but that doesn't exist either. so I went to Google and typed in "parkay margarine." The first hit found the right company, but the URL went deep inside the site and 404-ed. I backed up on the URL like a good surfer and eventually found the pitiful, pathetic page for Parkay products, with no mention at all of the new product. That is just so sad. At least there's a company out there doing a worse job of advertising than libraries.
10:42:09 AM Permanent link here
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