tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40605712009-03-01T16:13:48.186-08:00Life of Colleen (Archive)Ummm...the life of Colleen.Colleen Shirazinoreply@blogger.comBlogger385125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4060571.post-1115841223153496162005-05-11T12:52:00.000-07:002006-08-23T11:53:44.116-07:00I'm archiving this blog in favor of the new blogger format. Here is the new location:Life of ColleenColleen Shirazinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4060571.post-1114218840310634122005-04-22T17:53:00.000-07:002005-04-22T18:14:00.310-07:00I am reallllly hungry.It is time to go soak some rice. You have to soak basmati rice, preferably for one hour (not that I always do, I'm just saying).This time I have one of those premixed "green rice" herb packets. lol I'm not sure if it's better than mixing it yourself, but it isn't bad.Then we're having a salmon roast. So I really should start doing the rice now.Colleen Shirazinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4060571.post-1113609510284511302005-04-15T16:50:00.000-07:002005-04-15T16:58:30.283-07:00Good to see you back. :)Colleen Shirazinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4060571.post-1112735809280840652005-04-05T14:00:00.000-07:002005-04-05T14:16:49.280-07:00Argh! I cannot believe it. Well I do believe it actually, since it is the same thing that happened to me, involving exactly the same people...everything the same. Same-same.Anyhow...just had to get that off my chest. Carry on, carry on...Colleen Shirazinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4060571.post-1112683408698317762005-04-04T23:40:00.000-07:002005-04-04T23:43:28.700-07:00A trip down memory lane:lol! It looks really nice if you tile it on your webpage.Colleen Shirazinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4060571.post-1112514898570278192005-04-02T23:46:00.000-08:002005-04-03T00:01:06.433-08:00Not to worry, we are going to have a Q2. We have a new feature that can't go up until after April 5, so I'll update the front page then.We've been working like madmen on some new features on The Lipstick Page Forums side, to whit:1.) Brand new photo upload site here: The Lipstick Page Forums Image LibraryThis replaces the old image library with spankin' new Photopost features.2.) Reworked productColleen Shirazinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4060571.post-1112316464068615002005-03-31T16:46:00.000-08:002005-03-31T16:48:31.760-08:00rotfl! I got this from the Who's The Fairest board:You are a toothbrush.(Please disregard the picture). You are a control freak. You love to be in charge of everything, and like to do things yourself instead of indirectly. Hands-on projects are your favorite. You like to accomplish things the hard way, even if it means getting dirty. You have high priorities and set goals for your life, which Colleen Shirazinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4060571.post-1111273906412976922005-03-19T15:06:00.000-08:002005-03-19T15:11:46.413-08:00grumble... I tried blogging here yesterday and the whole post got a 500 Internal Server error. smirk I don't actually miss programming in Perl but hey, it was a sentimental moment.Colleen Shirazinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4060571.post-1111083436554424752005-03-17T09:50:00.000-08:002005-03-17T10:46:54.700-08:00Happy Saint Patrick's Day!!!!!I wish I was a DJ? (For those of you who have never heard of a DJ, it's the guy or gal who makes up a playlist of songs and plays them on the radio, along with some pleasant or snappy commentary in between. DJ's used to rule the world but that was quite a while ago.) Today would be All Irish Music Day. So I would have Sinead O'Connor, The Cranberries, Clannad, U2...Colleen Shirazinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4060571.post-1110921232807110702005-03-15T13:07:00.000-08:002005-03-15T13:21:15.290-08:00Charles Gunn-Dangerous and strong, you hold yourpart of the leader role when the others backdown. Cheer up though, you are the only onewith a girlfriend here! What Angel Character Are YOU?! brought to you by Quizillarotfl! I knew it!!!!! I knew I had to be Gunn.Yes, I was shooting for Fred, Cordelia or even Angel, but Gunn I am. lol! I love it...Colleen Shirazinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4060571.post-1110777169147572622005-03-13T20:52:00.000-08:002005-03-13T21:17:11.320-08:00Bleh! How crappy did that sound? I'm tired. I've been working since last night...I helped snake a drain (the glamour, the glitz lol); all day today I've been doing physical work. It was okay at first but the last hour was the last hour and should have been the last hour, an hour earlier.Now I'm doing laundry. I did mention about the drain? A few days without a washer in this household, means no Colleen Shirazinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4060571.post-1110775581980508572005-03-13T20:39:00.000-08:002005-03-13T20:46:21.983-08:00I was sitting down here to write that the Internet is the singular "place" in the world where a woman is not defined by her role as, well, a woman...the bottom caste in a two-caste system.Then of course I realized the sheer fiction of it. There have always been "places" where one is taken as an equal, albeit not real places.When I was eleven or so, I started writing...the Great American Novel, Colleen Shirazinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4060571.post-1110315647627420282005-03-08T12:45:00.000-08:002005-03-08T13:08:28.676-08:001. Grab the nearest book2. Open the book to page 1233. Find the fifth sentence4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog, along with these instructions.5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it. Just grab what is closest!Okee dokee...got this from Carol's blog. :)The nearest book to me is a paperback Roget's ThesaurusColleen Shirazinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4060571.post-1109221846408648442005-02-23T20:57:00.000-08:002005-02-23T21:10:46.410-08:00Yep, we have one of these on the side menu now:Yep, it's an ad...it is the Amazon.com pic of the DVD for the fifth season of Angel. But, it is also an excuse to put up a pic of David Boreanaz and James Marsters. Had we not gotten the Amazon affiliation, what other excuse could I have invented to put two hunky guys on the side menu?I'm actually watching the fifth season of Angel now. Hm. In some Colleen Shirazinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4060571.post-1108708199801349432005-02-17T22:23:00.000-08:002005-02-17T22:29:59.803-08:00Hmmm...thebroadroom has become...an ezine. A women's ezine. An online magazine, absolutely free of charge.We have been a quarterly for quite some time actually. I just never wanted to say so. We have no corporate investors, ya know, all of the work on the site is done by us in our spare time. So I have had to push back the beginning of the quarter, pretty much every quarter.But every quarter, we Colleen Shirazinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4060571.post-1107985160493886782005-02-09T13:31:00.000-08:002005-02-09T13:39:20.493-08:00Ugh--and I need to update our Cafepress tutorial. grumble...
Here's the basic info:
1.) Use the PNG format for all of your designs. It looks much, much better than JPG.
2.) Use the maximum DPI for all of your designs. Even if you're on dial-up, it's worth the hassle.
Imo it's better to use a smaller design at the maximum DPI than it is to use a bigger design at a lower DPI (some computers Colleen Shirazinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4060571.post-1107984630961267732005-02-09T13:25:00.000-08:002005-02-09T13:30:30.960-08:00Hmmm...I need to redesign our Cafepress stuff.
Actually I've been meaning to do that for a long time. I'm not happy with the design we have now. It doesn't represent the site.
Colleen Shirazinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4060571.post-1107479143751851072005-02-03T16:50:00.000-08:002005-02-03T17:05:43.753-08:00lol...I looked that up because I really was not sure myself, if, say, taking ideas from a public forum and presenting them on another forum, without crediting the source of those ideas, was or was not plagiarism.
I mean people swap ideas on forums all the time. I guess what disturbed me was the notion of taking many ideas from forum A, then presenting them on forum B (where presumably people Colleen Shirazinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4060571.post-1107478077005521162005-02-03T16:37:00.000-08:002005-02-03T17:06:13.580-08:00You know something...I never actually knew what was plagiarism, until recently.
I decided to look it up...what exactly is plagiarism?
Grammar
plagiarism
Literary theft. Plagiarism occurs when a writer duplicates another writer's language or ideas and then calls the work his or her own. Copyright laws protect writers' words as their legal property. To avoid the charge of plagiarism, writers Colleen Shirazinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4060571.post-1107461951777581402005-02-03T13:17:00.000-08:002005-02-03T12:19:11.776-08:00Okay...Angel...how the heck did Angel ever get cancelled? I see Charmed is still up. Charmed is...a clothes and makeup show. i.e. you'd watch it just to see how they did the makeup and what sort of clothes the women wore.
We're in the fifth and last season of Angel now...it just gets better and better and better. (shakes head)
Colleen Shirazinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4060571.post-1107461632185350962005-02-03T13:07:00.000-08:002005-02-03T12:13:52.186-08:00Okay, now it's 98% of the screen...yeah...so I have to replace the text link with a leaderboard.
It may not be obvious, but this entire site was created using a Java compiler I got for $30 in 1998. It's a Java compiler...the Symantec one...it doesn't do HTML templates.
Ergo, changing the ads on the site involves a Java program I wrote myself. I suppose ultimately all of the pages on the site Colleen Shirazinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4060571.post-1107461093087149562005-02-03T13:02:00.000-08:002005-02-28T17:27:22.063-08:00Okay...I can admit it. Having a text link to predict the Oscar winners for a chance to win a plasma tv probably is not as good for this site as having a leaderboard banner.Hmmm...was this page always so narrow? brbColleen Shirazinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4060571.post-1107392241497796062005-02-02T16:54:00.000-08:002005-02-02T16:57:21.496-08:00Okee, we have a new feature: Traveling Toward Home by Libby Gill.
It's pretty good actually...they give us good features.
Colleen Shirazinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4060571.post-1107298681024777842005-02-01T14:57:00.000-08:002005-02-01T14:58:01.023-08:00Jeesh...do these people document everything better than we do?
Colleen Shirazinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4060571.post-1107216995429219572005-01-31T15:40:00.000-08:002005-01-31T16:16:35.430-08:00I think I've put my finger on exactly why I love Angel so much.
It's not really that David Boreanaz is beyond hot. I didn't even like his character before...too much James Dean :)...he got better and better as the show went on, as the show itself got better and better. (Highly unusual; most shows run out of steam toward the end.)
Two things grabbed me. One was the series of episodes in which Colleen Shirazinoreply@blogger.com0