Blogger wins my newbie “ease of use” test…

OH YEAH! Blogger is really easy to set up and use… Easy to customize with widgets, and according to reviews that follow, easy to “monetize”. I will still probably keep them both for a while. One for “play”, one to “get serious” (???).
Both WordPress.com and Blogger.com are among the most popular free blogging services. A [...]

Help is here…

Sidebar Restored!
The first 4 links that follow were most helpful to me in solving my sidebar problem today.
WordPress.com Forums: Sidebar items disappeared
WordPress.com FAQ: Why is my sidebar at the bottom of my posts?
Help! My Sidebar Disappeared
W3C Code Validator
Blogger Forum
Blogging Help
Justin Wright’s BlogHelp
WDG (Web Design Group) HTML Help
63 Essential WordPress Hacks, Tutorials, Help Files, and Cheats…
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HELP!: WordPress Digg 3 Theme Problem

Why has my sidebar slid to the bottom of the page? And where did that little smiley-face come from? I don’t even know where to go to ask this question. I have tried changing the theme and re-applying it, but this did not work. A quick look at the designer’s page, WPDesigner, just tells me [...]

WordPress v. Blogger

Both WordPress.com and Blogger.com are among the most popular free blogging services. A couple of days ago I signed up with both of them without doing much research ahead of time. I knew I wanted to be able to post photos, and that I could post directly to Blogger from Google’s Picasa, which I [...]

Arabic Language Learning Online

Intute’s search, save, and export functions allow me to bring the following list of Arabic language learning sites to you in a matter of minutes.

al-Meshkat
http://www.almeshkat.net/

Alan Corr?n the web
http://www.uwm.edu/~corre/

American Association of Teachers of Arabic
http://www.aataweb.org/

Arabic without walls
http://arabicwithoutwalls.ucdavis.edu/

Aswaat arabiyya
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/aswaat/

Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW)
http://www.casaw.ac.uk/

CILT : 14 to 19 : reshaping languages
http://www.cilt.org.uk/14to19/

Digital Arabic flashcards
http://d-arabic.blogspot.com/

E.L. Easton [...]

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King Human: “You don’t have to be a rocket surgeon”.

Searching “how to make money on e-bay” I found several King Human videos on You Tube. I particularly enjoyed I Do Not Have A.D.D. !!! .
WARNING: Some videos may contain Obscenity and Adult Language, Adult Content, or simply be tasteless.

I remember why I quit…

I remember why I quit doing this now… everything moves muuuuuuchhhh toooooo slllllllooooowwwwwwllllyyyy…. It’s like learning chemistry just to dye your hair, and then still screwing it up because of something dumb like grabbing the wrong bottle or your timer breaking or whatever…

How to Help Your Preschooler Make Friends

My 4-year-old and I are in our first couple of months in a new town, in a “nice quiet neighborhood”  (where we don’t see a lot of people outside this time of year). But today it is 75 degrees F in Fayetteville NC and we went for a walk and met some neighbors.
Still, he is [...]