Happy Birthday Dad!

My parents have a neat little cottage to rent out in Provence, this is their website: http://www.naturistgiteprovence.com/

Wind

When it is excessively windy (as happens frequently here in the terra alta) my DSL goes in and out. The phone box (that is the box with all the cables) is outside my daughter's window, firmly fixed to the concrete wall. Rain i could understand .. but wind ? The phone works fine which further confuses the issue. Either way its making me crazy and reminding me of my total addiction to 24/7 connectivity.

Apple's Photobooth

I love this little utility that comes with my apple. Olivia, my daughter, loves it too, and sits cheerfully on my lap and waves to herself. Sometimes she is watching the Jungle Book, sometimes she is listening and watching an obscure Catalan band, Conxita, on YouTube. Perhaps its because Catalan sounds so "sing-song" ... the song, not for kids, translates as "dog music" ... I don't get the rest.

In progress ...

I managed to adapt a template inside Blogger so that it works for my site. I am still working some of the style elements, but it almost there. I started with Douglas Bowman's Minima design, which as its name suggest is nice and minimal. I copied out the provided template code, and then moved over the blogger tags into my own blank template, tweeked the css so it worked for my site, and then pasted back into the edit template box. Not too labor intensive for someone who wants to just learn this stuff, and doesnt have her whole site revolving around the blog.

The Web Design Survey, 2007

Today in Madrid

We are taking a short break from village tranquility and starting slowing with Madrid before we head to NYC for a couple of weeks. Today is May 1 and a holiday in Spain. El día del trabajo, Spanish Labor day, is very unlike the American Labor day though in that nothing is open. So no shopping, no BBQs (cos its like 50 degrees today), and no baseball! so unless you are connected to the World Wide Web you can't do much.