TechnoEarthMama

Who says you can’t do stuff when you have kids?  Right now, I’m at Portland Beer and Blog.  In a pub, having a beer.  With kids!  Ha!  I guess that about says it.
But seriously, many people in the Portland tech/blogging community have kids.  Sometimes we do have to make difficult choices about what we do [...]

Today we have a guest!  It’s J.A. Konrath (Joe), author of soon-to-be-released horror novel Afraid and of the Lt. Jack Daniels mystery series (Whiskey Sour, Bloody Mary, etc.).  Joe is on a blog book tour to promote Afraid, which I’m looking forward to reading.  Here’s a blurb from Joe’s newsletter:
Welcome to Safe Haven, Wisconsin. Miles [...]

I’ve decided to start an occasional series here called “Bits of Tech.”  It’ll cover the plugins, widgets, and other techy things that I use on this blog.
My first bit of tech to share with you is Meal Outlaw.  If you look down the left sidebar, you’ll find my Meal Outlaw feed — a listing of [...]

I’ve got one of those colds that seems to hang on forever (well, five days so far).  I noted a few days ago that I sometimes use garlic tea as home remedy.  My sister Wendy also suggested hot lemonade and chiles.  A combination of all three sounds awful at first, but Wendy pointed out that [...]

Portland blogger Jack Bogdanski is holding his sixth annual Buck-a-Hit day today, December 17, 2008.  This means that a generous benefactor will be donating $1 to the Oregon Food Bank for every unique visit to Jack’s site, up to 5,000 unique visits!  There will also be opportunities for visitors to make their own donations to [...]

Arundhati Roy has a piece today on guardian.co.uk about responding to the Mumbai terror attacks, including some history and context for the attacks.  It’s long, but I do recommend reading it.
Her piece ends with this paragraph:
The only way to contain (it would be naïve to say end) terrorism is to look at the monster in [...]

It’s Thanksgiving in the U.S., a day of peace and celebration.  This year, the peace has been marred.
I’m still appalled by the terrorist attack that took place in Mumbai, India yesterday.  As I write this, the death toll is at 100, with hundreds more injured and some people possibly still in a hostage situation (although [...]

Can a meal save the world?  Or at least my sanity?  I just put a hearty soup on the stove for my family, which did make me feel a little better.
“Feeling glum, disgruntled, and snarky. Watch out,” I tweeted late this afternoon.  Why so glum?
Well, there was this over at George Fox University, [...]