For those of you not on Facebook, and/or not a fan of the Hello World Web page...

Introducing Hello World Web's new official mascot!



Created by the lovely and talented Ivan Henley (the_terrible on LJ) famous for the "Galactic Drifter" webcomics series in addition to numerous comic series and books.

This is only the beginning of more good things to come!

Why same-sex marriage is an American value

One of the best statements on the subject I've read, and I *love* how this man describes marriage. His view of what marriage is and should be is really beautiful and touching. A tiny bit "utopic", perhaps, but something to wish for, aspire to.

Wish us all a prosperous 2010 (twenty-ten)!

My favorite version of this song, I wanted to share with you.

Or rather...the prelude to a change: http://helloworldweb.com

Guess who's little feet those are? LOL!

If anyone is looking for a special Christmas gift for that Barbie collector in your life..please look at the 4 NRFB collectible Barbies I have for sale! Prices range from $25-100.

http://www.whoismara.com/barbie/barbies.php

The are from my personal collection, never removed from the box (the 1995 Golden Anniversary Porcelain Barbie was removed just for these photos, but her box wasn't sealed), from a no pets / non-smoking household.

It would really make my day if you could share this with whoever you think might be interested, and/or "bump up the signal." I'm making this post public for that purpose. I'm willing to deal on more than one, can ship the next day, can accept PayPal, etc. Message me for any questions, and thanks!

The first few photos were taken this morning at 3:30am, when the snow first started falling. Yes, OK...I was like a little kid on Christmas morning, too excited to sleep for fear I would miss the first snowfall! I was able to catch the falling snowflakes in the photos!

The next set of photos were from 8:30am this morning, while the skies were still gray and overcast. Then later the sun came out. In one of the photos you'll see my sunshade that's over my camping and Christmas stuff. I had to use a broom to "shake" the snow off from the canvas.

And OMG....I just saw Auburn on the NBC national news!

Snow falls all the time in the Sierras. In fact nearby Blue Canyon has some of the deepest/most snowfall in the US. It's not even usual for snow to fall where I live now (flurries have been reported, though I'm still not seeing any). But there's SNOW expected in the Sacramento valley!!!

The last time this happened was Jan 28, 2002, though I can't remember it (bothers me that I can't). The last time *I* remember it snowing in Sacramento was 1986 (I have photos)...but the National Weather Service remembers differently.

It was a cold morning on January 28, 2002, when light snow covered the State Capitol and the rest of Sacramento.

Before the chilly 2002 event, the last reported trace of snow in Sacramento was registered on February 27, 1996, according to the National Climatic Data Center. The last time there was an official accumulation of snow came on February 5, 1976, when two inches of snow fell over the capital city.

The all-time record for snowfall in Sacramento happened on January 4 and 5, 1888 when the city saw four inches of snowfall.

I used my "harvest table display" from FarmVille (in Facebook). I have too much fun in that little virtual world...lol.

Made by yours truly :)


(pics cuz tori04 likes food pics)

( Click for the crazy...(wide image) )

Note: apparently the URL redirection service has a particularly annoying popup that passes through Firefox 3.5's blocker (I find a lot do, sadly).

It just fits.

on "to do" list items. Last night I completed and crossed off an item that had been on my list for 3 years. Go, me!

The Hobbit House seems to have been visited by the Pumpkin fairy. I awoke this morning to find this on my front porch:

I've just set up a new business blog to use for web design-related issues, and anything else that doesn't fit in the hosting status blog. I try to keep the status one short, sweet, and only deal with hosting status issues there. There's at least one person here who will smirk when reading the title of the new blog, "My Muse." ;-)

I still need to customize the theme (and get rid of that crappy Blogger header, etc), as well as set up an LJ feed (and a 3rd one to combine both the design and hosting blog feeds, to give clients who are also on LJ an option, maybe...open to thoughts on that!)...but I thought I'd link my first post, since it's an offer (from Microsoft, not me!) that expires today:

Get a better browser and feed the hungry...and it won't cost YOU a penny! Seriously, it's true...go read!

And in other business news...there's a ton (a TON I tell you!) of new features we'll be rolling out soon, in the next month. Hoping to roll out the new site design, also, in the same time frame if not sooner.

But I really enjoy the fact that, if something has to be midnight marauding in my garden...that it's a deer. Considering the fact I'm up all hours of the day and night, and keep trying to catch her in the act but never do, I'd say I have a worthy opponent.

Saw more, fresh deer tracks in the garden yesterday. She's apparently both hungry, and happy that I removed all those pesky weeds out of her way!

I know, my "city girl" is showing....but I think it's pretty cool I have a deer who comes to visit. A squirrel or raccoon would just be annoying, but a deer, a deer is cool! And cripes, the way she hides from view yet appears almost out of nowhere, she might be a unicorn for all I know!

I'll have my camera handy...just in case.

Look close...closer....closer....

To provide more artistic inspiration that anything or anyone on earth ever could for me.

Looking at this makes me feel very important and connected, yet very small and insignificant...all at the same time. I can't name an earthly artist who can do the same for me.

I'm applying to be a BETA tester for some new (and potentially very cool) software, and they need to know the machine's specs. I've been having a lot of trouble with my laptop and have been "load balancing", running the more memory-intense programs (and anything I don't absolutely need on the laptop) on the desktop. Since I'm not "bonded" to the desktop like I am my laptop...I had to look up the CPU and such.

It's an AMD64, and apparently can run both 32-bit *AND* 64-bit programs! Is that cool, or what?!?!?! All I know is it can handle applications that would bring my laptop crashing to it's knees without even breaking a sweat.

Amazing that for as good as most of the guts of the machine are, HP really cheaped out on things like the DVD drive, which died after less than a year (and I understand that happens more than not), and the built-in card reader is dead, too.