Author Archives: Meredith
Holiday Email “Catalogs” Out in Force
I can still remember the Sears Catalog Wish Book from when I was younger – the excitement of flipping through and marking off all of the toys I wanted Santa (or his stand-in) to bring. When I was a bit … Continue reading
My First Craft Fair
This past Saturday (October 24th) I shared a booth with my friend Anne and her lovely custom bags of Bagatelles (New York). I sold a couple pairs of fingerless gloves (or should I say fingerless mittens since there aren’t individual) … Continue reading
New Venture – New Adventure
This summer I started a business called Goldie Ashe. What is Goldie Ashe? Well, for now it’s web design, coding and crafting. It’s rather broad – but it will be refined in time. Mostly it’s an avenue for my passions. … Continue reading
Music Brings It Together
Or at least gives me a nice distraction… I find myself drawn to music in these crazy times. Will my job last (do I even want it to)? Will my husbands? Are we living beyond our means? How did our … Continue reading
Pulling it all together…
When I bought Goldieashe.com in February of this year I had grand plans of playing, developing, learning… And still have those plans – but I’m just finally really beginning to pull things together. Coherent is the name of the game, … Continue reading
You’re Only Now Realizing How Hip Librarians Are?
I have to mention this NY Times article – I “blogged” about it on my work’s blog briefly. But here I will mention my ambivalent feelings about the article. It makes me feel at turns vindicated and awkward. The article … Continue reading
The 5K Journal is in the Sidebar
My brother and I went for a nice walk/jog on Saturday and got ourselves motivated to get in gear for a 5K. So we signed up for Silks & Satins in Saratoga Springs in late July – just enough time … Continue reading
Microsoft Beginner Developer Learning Center
Besides being a mouthful to say – I’m curious to explore this site (which I haven’t fully). I must say I like how it is structured lesson-wise – something that, in my experience, can be very difficult to present in … Continue reading
Presidential candidates and technology collide
Fascinating web site called techPresident (http://www.techpresident.com/). It’s a great example of pulling different web technologies together in order to present a view of how candidates are doing in the world of the Web. techPresident scrapes how many friends each candidate … Continue reading
Slicing & dicing the Web using Yahoo! Pipes
I had been reading about Yahoo Pipes in at least a cursory manner at the O’Reilly Radar blog (highly recommended for those interested in the newest web tech talk – http://radar.oreilly.com/ ). Well I decided to explore them today, especially … Continue reading