Saturday, July 28, 2007

The Cat as Master of the Art of Shunning

The full moon is almost upon us, and with its advent comes yet another cycle of The Cat being weird.

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Thursday, July 26, 2007

Top Ten Ways to Blog and Bore Your Visitors to Itty Bitty Bits

Light-hearted read with tips and things to avoid while you're planning and executing your own blog, whether it's for business or pleasure.

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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

The Cat as Alien Life Form

[This could have been titled "The Cat as Overly Large and Persistent Ceiling Dwelling Spider" except I am too busy cleaning up cold coffee from my lap and keyboard to spell that long a title.]

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Monday, July 23, 2007

Warrior Women - Who we are, What we do, How we are

If you're a warrior woman, you may recognize yourself within. If you're not and you're female, you may see your future within. A thoughtful and slightly humorous look at the women of this world and social networking.

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Friday, July 20, 2007

The Cat as Olympic Contender

The Cat proves her merit in the highly competitive 2007 High Desert Feline Summer Olympics, starting with the challenging Long/High/Broad Jump event.

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Thursday, July 19, 2007

Geekenfodder - What it is, Why you need it, Where to get it

A superb collection of high tech gadgetry and toys for giving to your favorite techie, geek, nerd, collectively called 'Geekenfodder' (you can look it up.. it's a good thing)

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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

The Cat as Ant Command Post Monitor

Wherein The Cat decides that the early morning darkness is the best time to hunt for invasions and fend off the troops.

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Monday, July 16, 2007

Squidoo to Present Amazing Content

Squidoo provides a resource for getting the word out on almost any topic. Including one of the most highly rated and most popular lenses written to date.

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Friday, July 13, 2007

Top 50 Worst, Most Boring Sight-Seeing Trips in America (Part 1)

The Mundanes drive through the first half of the United States, and mishaps abound. Humor and good travel guides to boot.

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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Squidoo to the Max and Beyond

What Squidoo has allowed me to do, with much less time and effort, is create a library of lenses (sites) with both niche focus and broad categorization.One of my favorites to work on is focused on Micro-Green - Small Steps to a Greener Environment. I add little bits to it once a day, but the majority of the non-research work was (more...)

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The Cat as Cause of Near Death Experience

It's Monday at about 2:45 AM (as the event occurs). The Cat is camped out in one of her favorite places, between my keyboard and screen, effectively blocking the lower half and turning the functional portion into less than 640x480. Criminal demotion for a big wide screened iMac. (more... much more...)

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Haalp! I've been Squidoo'd!!

If you're a regular reader of my Fern's blog or any of the others I write, you may have noticed a strange silence on almost all but Totally Cats and What Do YOU Believe, where I have been able to make regular posts. Read on to find out why, and what it means to be Squidoo'd - trust me, it's a Good Thing. Social networking to the MAX.

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Monday, July 9, 2007

Words and Phrases that Should Exist but Probably Don't

Fun compendium of nonexistent words and resources to find REAL words. Instructions for making your own.

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Squidoodling Artwork for your Lense and Group on Squidoo

Absolutely free artwork for Squidoo lenses and groups. Not an active lensmaster? Joining is easy and free, and probably will even make you money!

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Sunday, July 8, 2007

Micro-Green - Small Steps to a Greener Existence

Small steps to take toward a greener existence. The things we can do on an everyday basis to lower our impact on the environment and even save a bit of money doing so. Everything from the micro steps to the big major serious ones, and quite a few in between. Links to resources and other information .UPDATE: More hints give small steps to take to save energy costs, help recycling, save water, save electricity and save gas.

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Saturday, July 7, 2007

A Small Group of People - A World of Difference



Words aren't enough. Watch. Listen. Comment, please.

Power Napping, De-Stressing, Rest, Sleep, Energy, pzizz

Power napping has been proven to dramatically increase productivity in every echelon of the workforce. pzizz offers the technology, both hardware and softwre, to facilitate great regenerative sleep.

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Thursday, July 5, 2007

Boost Site Traffic Exponentially

I just found this way to boost site traffic and thought I'd give it a try. It looks pretty cool... anyone have experience with it?

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The Cat as Fire Control Officer

This could be titled 50,000 Reasons to Keep a Home Fire Extinguisher Handy. After an evening of tension and worry over fireworks, The Cat prevents a potentially disastrous house fire.

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Wednesday, July 4, 2007

PopShops - Affiliate Marketing Dream Come True

PopShops has changed my affiliate marketing experience from a struggle to a success. Easy to use and Affordable data feed aggregator handles over 10 million products from over 900 merchants speedily and accurately. Building a PopShop takes minutes, a dramatic time and effort savings over hours of work and research by hand.

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Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Micro-Green - Small Steps to a Greener Existence

Small steps to take toward a greener existence. Links to environmental resources and other information. NOW with Daily Micro-Hints.

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Monday, July 2, 2007

Sunday, July 1, 2007

Help and Advice for HootOwls, Day Sleepers, Insomniacs

It doesn't take much lack of sleep to start racking an enormous sleep debt, at any age. Take the poll and see how your sleep debt may be doing, read some suggestions and cautions

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Kitchen Retro - Everything Old is New Again

Old style chrome appliances, formica countertops, stainless steel cabinetry, linoleum - rounded Art Deco lines that harken back to years before the Great Depression - post-WWII period pieces - grace of some decades many of us have only read about.

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The Cat as Benevolent Protector

Great distress in The Cat's household as a breakdown in communications spells disaster.

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