Glass Panes That Separate

transparent barriers to communication

Tag: life

  • multiply

    A bunch of my family members use Multiply for posting blogs, book reviews, photos, and links. It’s kind of like Facebook or Myspace, but slimmed down, and geared more towards blogging. Several of them have recently joined Facebook, and yesterday, my aunt asked me an interesting question. Is there any way to integrate the two sites? I knew there had to be, but it took me a while to think of how to do it.

    So, here it is: On facebook, go to your Profile, and make sure you are on your Wall. Right below the ‘Write something…’ box, there is a Settings button. Click that, and the top section will say ‘Stories Posted by You’. As you can see, Multiply isn’t listed, but there is one called ‘Blog/RSS’. Click this, and it will ask you for the Public URL of your blog. For my Multiply site, it would be nosilver4u.multiply.com. Fill in yours, and click the Import button. Now it will automatically post anything from Multiply on your Facebook page. Unfortunately, I don’t think there is any way to go the other direction. This will also work for any other blogging site like blogspot, livejournal, or wordpress.com.

  • earth hour

    The other day I found out about earth hour. You can go read about it, but I’ll give you the short version. At 8:30 P.M. turn off all your lights for one hour. They are aiming for one billion people participating this year (last year was 50 million). I’m not huge into all this ‘global warming’ stuff, but I do think we need to do a better job conserving energy, and this is one way to help make that happen.

  • roo

    As some of you probably already know from Facebook, we have a new addition to the family. It’s a girl! She is a 3-month old Labrador/Border Collie that we adopted from the Eastern Montana Humane Society. At three months, she’s obviously not as well-behaved as Scooter was when we got him last year, but she’s picking things up quickly. It seems pretty amazing that we’ve only had her a week.

    Her name, as you might have guessed, is ‘Roo’ of Kanga & Roo fame from Winnie the Pooh. Watching her and Scooter interact has been quite fun, and they are certainly getting plenty of exercise too. We’ve had to give her a couple baths, as she has some sort of skin infection. When she comes out of the bath, her scent is masked by the shampoo, and Scooter always thinks there’s a new dog in the house. Eventually, her scent comes back, and he figures out that it was his sister all along.

    As always, there’s pictures in the gallery, and I’ve even uploaded a video for your enjoyment.

     

  • still

    Nothing would be the same without my darling one and only. Today marks four years since she said, “Yes.” I love you, and you’re still my favorite. It also happens to be the day to remember Saint Valentine. Whoever he was.

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    LLL          OOOOOOO     VVV VVV    EEE
    LLL         OOO   OOO     VVVVV     EEEEEE
    LLL          OOOOOOO       VVV      EEE
    LLLLLLLLL      OOO          V       EEEEEEEEE

          YYY   YYY      OOO      UUU   UUU
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             YYY         OOO       UUUUUUU

  • dwelling

    We now have real pictures of the house we bought in Glendive. Or, as Amanda likes to call it, our ‘cottage’.