Last night I attended a 3 hour CERT training class sponsored by the town fire department. CERT stands for Community Emergency Response Team and is associated with Citizens Corp and FEMA. The idea behind CERT is that in times of disaster, natural or manmade, where first responders, such as the fire department, EMT’s, police, etc. might get overwhelmed, they have trained, local citizens who can help in a variety of emergency situations. For the next six weeks, I’ll be attending… Continue Reading
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Category Archives: Web Stuff
Playing With WordPress Themes
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 to go for endless fun and experimentation. WordPress started out as a very customizable blogging tool, but it has developed into a pretty powerful content… Continue Reading
One Twitter Is Not Like The Other Twitter
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 between these two streams is like night and day. Water and oil. Soap and pepper. (Yes, soap and pepper. Haven’t you ever done that experiment… Continue Reading
Site Update Plans
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 play around more with type/fonts. Complete revamp of the “About” page. The personality tests are fun, but I’m wanting this page to be more engaging…. Continue Reading
Tuning In To The Social Network
So a friend lent me the DVD for the movie, The Social Network, last week and I was able to finish watching it this weekend. The movie is a take on how Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook and the events that led up to its extreme popularity today. There were times when I really sympathized with Zuckerberg as well as times when I thought, “What a wretched little jerk! I should go delete my Facebook account right now!” Naturally, there were… Continue Reading