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Links Roundup: Super Bowl XLV Edition

With just an hour before kickoff, I figured that there has to be some Americans (like us, who are stuck home with the baby) who will not be attending a Super Bowl party tonight and will be enjoying the game at home instead. And I'm sure there are those who won't be watching the game at all. So this post is for us. Enjoy, and let's go Packers! Who's rooting for whom? Go see if you're in Steelers or Packers territory by inputting your zip code at this Super Bowl FanMap. Still not sure who to root for? Check out this Super Bowl Flowchart: Enjoy the commercials more than the game? Check out this Super Bowl commercial schedule, then make sure you haven't missed a single...

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WordPress for the Everyday Blogger:
Part 2 – Set the Bare Bones

Prelude Part 1: Setting Up Let's run through a checklist of things you should've done by now: installed WordPress in a web or local host imported content (whether from another blog or dummy content downloaded from the web) to your new blog chosen, downloaded, and installed a blank WP theme went through the PHP and CSS files in your blank theme to familiarize yourself with its setup If you have done these things, you should now have a blog that looks similar to this: Our new blog running the ET-Starter theme with the WP .XML Test Data Import dummy content Remember when I said in Part 1 of this series that one of the great things about the ET-Starter theme is that you can easily toggle between...

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Kristin & Kayla: Creative Kids Photography

Last October, photographer Jason Lee's über-creative pictures of his two daughters became viral. I was quick to share the item on my Google Reader and tweet about it, but I don't believe I ever blogged about the father, his camera, and his two adorable girls. Jason Lee is a wedding photographer by trade, but when his mother became ill with non-hodgkins lymphoma in 2006, he set up a website called http://kristinandkayla.com to keep her up-to-date and cheer her up with whimsical pictures of her granddaughters. Kristin and Kayla are incredibly adorable in their own right, but the way that their father poses each shot to give each scene a curiously playful spin is what makes these photos so unique and loved by...

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