Digital ADD (Digital Attention Deficit Disorder) - I has it.

Digital ADD. I don’t know if this term has been coined by others (I imagine it has) but that’s what I’m suffering from today. Actually I’ve been suffering more and more from it over the past year or two.
Right this moment, I have Firefox open with 18 tabs: Gmail, Google Reader, Meebo, Google Docs, Twitter [...]

Drowning in Lemonade

The old cliche goes “when life hands you lemons, make lemonade.”
I’m beginning to drown in the lemonade but I’m hoping for a lemon shortage in the next couple of weeks.
I’ve been on the internet little the last few weeks and have neglected not only the blog but twitter, facebook, friendfeed, seesmic, etc.
I’ve been told several [...]

Saturday Morning ToonDoo…

My good Twitter pal Paisano created a great comic on ToonDoo.com which was today’s Editor’s Pick.

I think Pai’s toon deserves a Digg don’t you?
I’ve never heard of ToonDoo.com until today but I quickly signed up for a free membership so I can play with the great Toon creation tools they have. Here’s a quick (and [...]

GapingVoid leaves Twitter leaving a … gaping void?

Hugh MacLeod, better known to some as GapingVoid, has announced that he has deleted his Twitter account.
MacLeod - cartoonist, author, blogger, all around Renaissance man - will be sorely missed by his legions of followers. You can subscribe to his blog to keep up with him now.
It seems that the more popular Twitter becomes, the [...]

Rollin’ with the punches…

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
Are you the type of person who can roll with the punches? or are you the sort that freezes up with a plan goes awry?
I’m not sure if I’m a roll with the punches sort by nature but I’ve had to learn the skill [...]

8 Things You Might Not Know About Me

I’ve been tagged by Loud Mouth Man to write 8 things. I’m not really sure where to begin but let’s see what I can come up with.

In 1996 I won Family PC Magazine’s best kids’ website contest for my site Maddy Mayhem’s Kids’ Stuff which was later mentioned in several other magazines & newspapers worldwide [...]

5 Easy Ways to Reduce Packing Stress When Moving

While preparing to move for the first time in nearly 12 years I realized that there are many easy ways to cut down the mountain of possessions I own to a more manageable molehill. I figure the less I have to actually pack and move the less stress the process of moving will be.
The last [...]

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I admit it. I’m totally addicted to tabs in Firefox. Are you?
When I get up in the morning and start up Firefox it automatically opens my first tabs of the day: Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader, weather, local news.
I read about 175 (give or take a few) RSS feeds so the first thing I do [...]

What’s Your Pot of Gold?

I’ve mentioned in previous posts my plans to change my life in many ways. I’ve also mentioned my goal to move in about 10 years time to somewhere with a moderate climate, possibly the south of France although I’m considering several options.
Last night I got into a heated argument with a very dear friend about [...]

Tempest in a Teapot

A couple of days ago I saw an absolutely incredible teapot on Etsy and shared the link with an online social group I’m involved in.
My friend Seana said, “Oh my god, Merlene likes teapots! Let’s all buy her teapots!”
She’d remembered a teapot story I’d told a couple of years ago.
Years ago when I was first [...]