One of the best WordPress theme designers

One of my favorite WordPress theme designers is Brian Gardner. His themes are sharp and uncluttered and really easy to work with. I use his Blue Zinfandel theme on several sites and find them very user-friendly- not junked up with a lot of unnecessary code. Brian has...

Z-List meme

I appreciate my friend Char over at Essential Keystrokes tagging me with a z-list meme for technology, science and consumer electronics blogs. Here’s how it works… 1. Write a short paragraph at the beginning of your post and link back to the blog that put you on the...

Performancing for Firefox- review

Now that I have four separate blogs going, I decided to try a blog editor to see if it would make things simpler. Logging in and out of separate blogs, waiting for pages to load, etc. can be tedious, so I thought it might be worth a try. I considered Qumana, because I...

My new favorite social networking tool

I was a latecomer to MyBlogLog. Not being a fan of lots of clutter in sidebars, when I began to see it, I thought maybe it was just a fad and I did not rush to join. I had no idea what a great tool it is. Two things that are great about it: First, it’s just nice...

Too much information?

I’ve recently begun to see the Twitter widget in the sidebar of blogs here and there, and like this post at Lifehack.org, I have wondered why.  Why do I need to know that people are doing right now?   Why do I need to know that KCtheStickle is watching QVC right...

User-friendly WordPress Themes

I’m a relatively new user of WordPress, having done my first install only 6 months ago or so, but I’ve tried out several themes and thought I’d give a review of each. Misty Look, by Sadish – this was the first theme I used, and it is a simple,...