I am 28 weeks pregnant with BebeDeux today, which means that I am officially in my third trimester. I wish I had a belly shot to share with you, but I still don't have a functioning laptop with which to transfer photos from my camera and my cell phone camera isn't working. So here's what I looked like last year when I was 28 weeks pregnant with Claire, since everyone's been telling me that my tummy growth and weight gain look relatively the same. My mother theorized that I must be having such difficult pregnancies because the babies are "absorbing" all my health...
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As someone who is married to a Chinese man (and often gags at the things he is willing to eat), I can attest that this is completely accurate. ;-) Via 9GAG....
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It has been two months since I first decided to start accept advertising on this blog, and just a little over a month since the first ad appeared. Now, I know that no one likes a braggart. And I am not in any way writing this post as a way to scream, "Look how much money I'm making!" Rather, I decided to reveal my first month's advertising revenue (and by that, I mean the first month when the ads first appeared, not when I began accepting ads) solely based on the fact that there are so damn few bloggers who openly share their earnings. When I was first contemplating ads, the biggest questions I had were: "How much can I make?" "Which advertising method(s)?" And since I...
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So true. (via Reddit) On a related note, I have trouble pooping when I am away from home. Seriously. For example, I pooped once during our 10-day honeymoon. I thought I was going to die. Does anyone else have this problem? Also, I believe that having two full bathrooms is a HUGE contributing factor to my happy marriage. :-)...
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11 days ago, Google announced a new tool that aims to speed up the loading of websites. The new Page Speed Service utilizes the optimization techniques outlined by the company's Page Speed Online API and takes it a step further: by rewriting pages and delivering them to users using Google's servers. On the Google Code blog, Google says that it has seen speed improvements from 25% to 60% on some sites. Google has a gallery and a comparison test that users can try themselves. While the service seems pretty cool at first glance, it is not without controversy due to the fact that it requires users to point the CNAME of their URL to Google's own servers. (Take a look at the myriads of unfavorable comments on TechCrunch's...
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