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HP Holiday Magic Entry

December 7th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Miscellaneous, Sideblog

Moosh In Indy is giving away $6000 of HP computers here. It’s part of the HP Holiday Magic campaign.

If I won, I’d keep the desktop and printer for work and school. With the other computers:

One I’d give to my grandmother just turned 67 years old, and is going back to college to complete her degree in early childhood education. She postponed her education until after I had left home in order to raise me, and she’s an inspiration to me that yes, you’re never too old.

The other one I’d give to my best friend who’s a single mother raising her son without any help, living solely off of student loans. She’s pursuing her master’s in English and her old laptop has been giving her trouble. Recently she lost a year’s worth of photos of her 5 year old son and a semester’s worth of work. She continues to take it in for repairs, it continues to break on her, but she can’t budget in a new computer.

The last I’d give to my younger brother who’s just enrolled in the local community college. He’s made some mistakes lately, not the least of which was not being careful and contracting HIV, something that has forced him to put his life in perspective these past two months. He’s trying to do turn things around and I think this laptop would be beneficial to him for school and also, he’s a pretty good writer and I’d like to see him start his own blog. I think it’d be good for him.

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Three Important Things

December 5th, 2008 | 21 Comments | Posted in Miscellaneous

1. In a few days I’ll be mailing my laptop in for repairs. I dropped it yesterday and it’s not acting right. *cries* It will take about a week (so they say!) for me to get it back. So, my internet time after this weekend will be sporadic for a while. I hate desktops, especially ones that you have to share with other people because I can’t watch porn.

2. I am very angry that as soon as Elizabeth directed me to a hack for Google Reader that would allow you to comment from within the reader without having to go to their blogs (I KNOW!!), Google Reader up and changed it’s damn layout and the hack no longer works. Do you know how much time that would save me? Being as I’m super far away from the wireless router and my connection can be slow and potty at times, so loading multiple pages can be frustrating? A shitload of time, that’s how much. I’m hoping that someone updates it soon. There’s a fix for it already! Keep in mind - you’re going to need Firefox & have the Greasemonkey addon installed. After that, go here and install the script. Then here to find the update. If you need assistance implementing the fix, email me and I’ll walk you through it, or we can screen share and I’ll do it for you. Check this screenshot of the AWESOMENESS (click to enlarge):

If you’re wondering about speed - it seems load faster in the reader than in individual pages, from first impression. To visit the original post page, just right click the post title and open in a new tab.

3. I’m hosting my first giveaway on my review blog, a game from I Can Do That Games.

Oh and:

4. If you missed it, my first article went up at BlogHer yesterday - check it out here.

OH and:

5. I love you because you don’t care that there are actually 5 important things. (Loving you is such an important thing.)

*The blog pictured in the screenshot is miss-britt.com.

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OH HAI!!

December 4th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Miscellaneous, Sideblog

I wrote my first article for BlogHer. It’s up now. I would have said so earlier, but I thought it was going up Monday. So yeah, check it out. Moms/Dads, I’d like to know what you think. :)

Forgoing Traditional Kindergarten for Homeschooling. | BlogHer.

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