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Is he or isn’t he? Only his bartender knows for sure.

I just discovered another very cool thing WordPress 2.9 lets you do — embed video right into your blog just by pasting the You Tuble URL. You don’t have to use the “insert video” icon, or even paste in the embed code. Just the URL text, right into the post.
I know, I know. [...]

Posted 31 December 2009 † Brigette Russell § Blogging § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Why I am so clever

The post title is pinched from a chapter title in one of Friedrich Nietzsche’s books.  I cannot remember which one, because I had time either to look it up or pinch and upload a picture of philosophy’s bad boy, but not both, so I chose the latter.
And yes, that means that I can now [...]

Posted 29 December 2009 † Brigette Russell § Blogging § Personal § Santa Fe ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , , ,

So you think I’m too young to use a knife?

Go ahead and try to take it…out of my cold, dead hands.
Obviously, I figured out how to get a new photo onto the blog, since Portia was a little bitty baby when my technical difficulties began.  I still can’t upload pictures to the blog, but I can upload them to Flickr or Picasa and then [...]

Posted 18 December 2009 † Brigette Russell § Blogging § Personal ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Am I blue

You’ve seen this picture before.  You’re not seeing a new one because I have been unable to upload new images to my blog for many, many months now, and it’s really got me, well, blue.
It used to be so easy.  I’d press the “insert an image” icon, and then click the “Choose files to upload” [...]

Posted 15 December 2009 † Brigette Russell § Blogging § Personal ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Work in progress

This is a new blog, and very much a work in progress. I am still getting to know WordPress and trying to figure out the quirks in the theme I’m using. My “About” and “Contact” links, which were on the sidebar yesterday, have disappeared today. Until I figure out how to get [...]

Posted 02 June 2008 † Brigette Russell § Personal ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: