Going GREEN
Not just a little green, in the case of The Heliotrop, a (luxury) house that rotates on a central axis to the best angle to collect solar energy. It heats hot water on the roof, absorbs heat in winter, reflects it in the summer, and oh yeah - the decor looks awesome.
When my husband and I are able to buy a home, one of the serious investments I really want to make is to add solar panels and get one of those two-way meters that actually feeds power back to the power company. I’m not sure what other modifications would need/be able to be made, but having a Green house is something that really interests me.
Now if I could get one of those geotheramal heat systems that uses a deep well dug beneath the home before the foundation is poured, that would ROCK.
Filed under Ecology | Comment (0)Appropriate Use of Tags and Categories
Back when I first started blogging, just before A/N sites were hugely popular and when Greymatter was the blogging software to use (does anyone even know what that is anymore?), I don’t remember Categories being so damn difficult. You could pick one, (or maybe three, I can’t recall if that was GM or MovableType - isn’t that horrible?!), and your posts were sorted accordingly.
Now you can have an infinite number of not only categories, but now there are these new “tags” to deal with!
I’m not very good at orginazation. I probably just am making it harder than it needs to be (that is actually one of my favorite things to do, by the way). Write the post, give it a tag, a category, and there you go, right?
But then, are categories and tags supposed to overlap? Can you put in “marketing” as a tag and a category? What’s the difference between the two, anyway? As far as I can tell with WordPress (where my mastery of the program is significantly less than it ever was, even when I was a n00b), they function almost exactly the same. You click one or the other, and you get all the posts with that same word.
So why are there two of them? Anyone?
Filed under Misc | Comments (2)Logoish
I admit it - I’m a bit of a follower. I read or find out about new ideas, new places to spread my wings, and I dive in head first. I think this makes me a Jack of All Trades (whether I’m a Master of None remains to be seen - I think I’m doing okay).
So when I found David Airey’s site and read about how he created his new logo, of course I started thinking about making my own. Natch.
I started with sketches (of course, being an amateur I use a regular comp book), and I actually came out with something I really like with very little effort. Past history has proved to me (I-Search paper in the 9th grade - thank you to my English teacher that year whose name I can’t recall) that I can come up with some kick ass ideas, if I don’t stop once I think I’ve hit my favorite.
Maybe I ought to go back to sketching.
Well, even if I do more sketches, my problem right now is translating it into Photoshop (which is a post for another day). I have acceptable PS skills, but apparently not enough to get my vectors to act the way I’d like them to. Google ought to help, once I find some free time to go plunder it’s vault of information.
I actually gave up on my favorite design and went for my second choice because I could create that one simply with creative fonts, but I’m rethinking that now. I mean, a font-logo doesn’t really feel like a real logo, right? Maybe it could be - I probably ought to do more research.
Google, my friend, here I come!
Filed under Marketing | Comment (0)
