• The Never-Ending Bloga

    Fixing CSS and Tweaking The Talian Theme

    Okay, it’s Saturday, it’s too cold to go outside for more than a brief, well-layered walk, and so therefore I’ve been making some modifications to the CSS file for the blog. There were a couple of issues that were bothering me with this otherwise excellent theme: Virtual Assistance For Business : Free Premium WordPress blog theme “Talian” released. An elegant theme that is very much close to my heart. The theme designer hasn’t responded to comments requesting fixes or information for several months. It’s likely that he’s not that interested in supporting his free themes, just in designing them. Which…

  • Flickr - Photos and Shutterblogs

    One of my photos on Schmap! Yay me!

    One of my Flickr photos got selected for the current Schmap online guide – they use photos to illustrate points of interest in their web-based city travel guides. It just goes to show you that it’s a good idea to tag your photos effectively on Flickr, as this is the second time something like this has happened. The other one requires me to fill out some kind of form, need to get on that this weekend. I might actually get a small fee for use of another of my photos. Salt Lake City – Theme Bars The decor is as…

  • Home Improvement

    Foundational Issues

    We had a trickle of water coming in the basement on Sunday during a thaw with plenty of rain, and since then it’s been really cold, so everything froze up again. Even the streets – where on Sunday there were running streams of water, trying to find their way to the storm drains (which were mostly blocked by snow and ice dams left by the village plows) we now have sheets of hard frozen ice. The bottoms of everyone’s driveways are also either ice dams or sheets of smooth, glassy ice, and in some suburbs, there’s so much ice left…

  • Mini-Posts - Only in Utah...

    Salt Shaker City Quake

    Quake hits NE Nevada, has buildings swaying in downtown Salt Lake City – Salt Lake Tribune There was an earthquake in Nevada that shook buildings – hard – in Salt Lake, more than 200 miles away.  I’m not too worried about family members there, but I expect they’ll have some good ‘all shook up’ stories for me later.

  • Clan: McTiVo - Food, Glorious Food

    Career: IMPOSSIBLE

    My husband David will be so disappointed to hear this: ‘Fraudulent’ British celebrity chef faces sack from US TV show after claiming he made Diana’s wedding cake | the Daily Mail A celebrity British chef who has his own TV show in America faces the sack after he was unmasked as a fraud. Robert Irvine claimed he had helped make the wedding cake for the marriage of Prince Charles and Diana. And in a bid to impress Americans the former royal chef said he was knighted by the Queen – and even boasted that he had been given a castle…

  • Food, Glorious Food

    Chicken Piccata Recipe | Simply Recipes

    Chicken Piccata Recipe | Simply Recipes Ingredients: all we need are capers! 2-4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves (1 1/2 pound total) 1/3 cup flour 2 Tbsp grated Parmesan cheese Salt and pepper 4 Tbsp butter 4 Tbsp olive oil 3 Tbsp lemon juice 1/2 cup chicken stock or dry white wine 1/4 c. brined1/8 c. capers in balsamic vinegar 1/4 cup fresh chopped parsley When I got to the store, all they had were capers in either plain vinegar, or balsamic, not brined (unless that’s the same thing… ). The recipe calls for either butterflying thick chicken breasts, or…

  • Geek Out!

    Cool Newness: Deep Space Network

    Deep Space Network Home Page The NASA Deep Space Network – or DSN – is an international network of antennas that supports interplanetary spacecraft missions and radio and radar astronomy observations for the exploration of the solar system and the universe. The network also supports selected Earth-orbiting missions. Neato! Via Neat New Stuff from the Librarians’ Internet Index

  • Episcopal

    Poachers in Western Chicago Suburbs Meet, Plot Schism

    Has the Anglican Split Begun? | Liveblog | Christianity Today Meanwhile, in the western suburbs of Chicago, I attended a Wednesday lunch meeting witha senior American Anglican leader who said in essence that the time may soon come for orthodox Anglicans to create some kind of new global structure because of repeated failures of ABC Williams to hold “revisionists” accountable for proceeding with gay ordinations and same-sex rites and for advocating a host of other non-orthodox revisionist teachings.This leader who spoke at aninvitation-only event anticipates creation of anew Anglican Province in North America thatorthdox Anglican leaders would recognize. These leaders…