Fracking Uncool

No Fracking Way by ProgressOhio on Flickr

Last night, I pulled up the local news website to check the weather and came across a news article that our state government is considering a move to let the gas companies come in and start fracking. Fracking stands for “hydraulic fracturing” and is a process to extract fossil fuels from beneath the earth. For…

Are We Prepared?

Post-apocalyptic DC - Fallout 3

It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted to this blog. One reason is that I’ve been pretty busy, but another reason is that I’m still not happy with the blog’s overall direction. I love web stuff, so I thought if I focused most of my blogging into that niche and built upon it, the…

Playing With WordPress Themes

I Love Wordpress by Felipe Lavin on Flickr

It has to be said. I love WordPress for websites. It seems like there is almost nothing it can’t do with a bit of customization. Best of all, it’s open source so the sky’s the limit and there are lots and lots of people developing custom themes, widgets, and plugins all packaged up and ready…

One Twitter Is Not Like The Other Twitter

Social Media Buzz by ivanpw on Flickr

Currently, I have two different active Twitter streams. I use @agirlirlblog to tweet about computer/video gaming related topics, and the stream is associated with my blog over at agirlirl.com. I use @bekkilyn in association with this rebeccachapman.org blog and have slowly started following more people who are involved with the web and social media. The difference…

Site Update Plans

No. 18 To Do lists by boboroshi on Flickr

Formatting! I still have lots of formatting left to do on the site. The footer still needs to be organized as well as parts of the sidebar. Since I’ll have different sidebars for some pages, I’ll need to make sure the formatting works for those too. Header image/logo. Nothing extremely fancy, but I’d like to…