“Famous Shoes” is a collection that depicts the iconic footwear of celebrities and well-known fictional characters. I have cropped 10 of my favorites below — can you guess which shoe belongs to which person/character? (Click on the shoe to see the full version, and the answer.)
Starting a couple of weeks ago, I began to run into Netflix streaming issues. Movies would take forever to load, and when they finally did, they would start lagging after just a few minutes. I then realized that this only happened between the hours of 9pm-11pm. I knew that there weren't any programs or processes running on our end that may contribute to this issue. And as someone who doesn't have cable, regularly using Netflix to unwind at the end of a long day, I got pretty annoyed. I began to suspect that either our ISP or Netflix itself was throttling our connection. After all, we, as a family, use the web extensively and always have multiple devices connected at a time. Additionally,...
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ETA, March 2015:I am now hosting this site with Squidix, and have been very happy with their service. You can read a full review here. Short version: my site was down for 45 hours this weekend due to Hawk Host's abysmal support. Because I was well within their "30-day money back guarantee" period, I have changed hosts...
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A recent commenter asked me, "If you are so confident in what you have written, why are you responding to each critical comment?" The post in question was a controversial one with numerous commenters up in arms about what I had chosen to share. I considered my options. If I respond, people like her would think that I'm being defensive. If I don't respond, someone will inevitably chime up and say that I'm acting high-and-mighty by ignoring helpful statements. It was, as the title of this post suggests, a no-win situation. That was one example. Here's another. (image source) Last year, I sought to implement a blogging schedule. One of the topics I regularly wrote about was my faith. And it's funny, because I never, in...
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I know I've been blabbering on about my recent web host transfer and related maintenance issues, and that most people reading won't even care. But. Yesterday, a parenting Facebook group linked to one of my old, more controversial posts. Which led to tons of new visitors. Which led to more people linking to that same post from other parenting boards (like GBCN, which is apparently a message board for former Nesties). Which led to even more traffic from angry parents who didn't agree with my parenting choices. In simple terms, this blog received a whooping 172,616 hits yesterday. (And the stats continue to stay higher-than-normal today.) My new web hosting account received a total of 381 (as of this writing) 508 "Resource Limit Is Reached"...
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