Sometimes a girl's just got to write... and sometimes she doesn't. Distracted Mind is the home of one such "girl". Feminist, woman, wife, artist, mother; there's a lot of different hats worn around here and things get busy. Somehow I always seem to come back.
When you click on a broken link, or type in the wrong address, you generally want to know what the heck you actually did, right?
If web design is your bag, or you know someone who designs, develops, codes or would just appreciate the knowledge, send ‘em here:
Table of Contents | The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
A fabulous resource for anyone who takes typography serious… or just wants to learn how type on the web _should_ work. This is a serialized site — chapters are added periodically, and each one is easy to understand and its concepts are easy to apply.
I may have started using [Tumblr](http://www.tumblr.net/) for little blogging quickies, but I really wanted to keep my regular [WordPress](http://www.wordpress.org) weblog for various reasons like my silly attachment to the software, the powerful features, and the many options that WordPress offers. I love this piece of software, but unfortunately it is _so_ feature-rich that I sometimes become all ambitious and want to post masterpieces (hence the no-post in recent times).
Instead of ditching WordPress or not trying tumblr, I’ve decided to integrate them using something called [ReBlog](http://www.reblog.org), which allows you to syndicate posts from rss feeds. Now, I’m sure this tool is used for evil on a daily basis by link farmers and spammers, but I ain’t one of ‘em. I’m just using this tool for its sweet little integration feature, which has made life a lot easier in terms of the brain power I had to expend to get the two weblogs talking to each other. If you’re not evil and bent on making the internet a more cluttered place full of junk, I recommend ReBlog to splice your different blogs together.
50 Free Vector Grunge Corners | BittBox
“This is most wonderful. It is true, free vector grunge elements are the unicorn of the design world.”
— from a commenter.
Don’t we all? I won’t go into the oh-so-very wrongness of referring to one’s self as a “grammar nazi” (ranks right up there with the “parenthetical pogram” and the “comma clan”), but I love to read about how not to butcher the written word. If you liked that run-on sentence, perhaps you should read up on a few writing sites:
Picnik – edit photos the easy way, online in your browser
All I can say is wow. This little web-based photo editor is very nice for those photos that just need some touching up, or some special touches.
Picnik offers a free account, with promises of a premium (read: paid) version later on. It allows you to upload to your flickr account, or use Picasa, and does an excellent job of giving your photos some extra oomph.
Gmail Craze: 30 + Tools and Hacks for Gmail » MakeUseOf.com
Gmail tips and tricks–quite useful for me, since I now must check my email through the browser only on my work computer.
Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Web Worker Tax Relief? It Could Happen «
File under the “would be nice, but so would unicorns and teleportation” category. Seriously, how cool would it be if we could actually write off some of our telecommute expenses?
I’ve decided to give a little service named tumblr a try, seeing as I’ve had little to no time for any of my more lengthy blog updates. Still working on a way to import my wordpress stuff, but I’ll get to that in time.
What can I say? This should be fun.