Author Archive: meri

Calling all knitters! Lace-weight pattern?

I’m on something of a self-imposed time-crunch here (I’m going to be leaving in a couple of hours to be from my house for a couple of days, and want to get whatever comes of this printed before I leave), and I have a query for you.  (more…)

Ask LazyWeb: Modern-day IRC replacement?

So, there was a time, where if I wanted several someones to get together to chat, I’d find an IRC
server and start a channel, and that would be that. Of course, at that time, pretty much everyone I knew was a reasonably hard-core geek (or was friends with one), and had a shell account.  (more…)

PSA: The meri is full of rantiness today.

Should you be one of the poor fools I interact with today, please do be careful.

TL;DR: grumpy meri is grumpy (more…)

Hurricane memories.

I told a friend that I had a Hurricane Iniki story that was too long to type in over the phone, and that I would type it in once I was at a real computer. As I find myself at a computer…

TL; DR: meri almost missed a hurricane by not coming out of her apartment. It’s not a very good story, but it amuses me, for some reason.

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You’ve got mail!

Today, I set up mail.app for the first time in, well, forever. (I’ve been living the webmail life for quite a while. But circumstances, blah blah blah.)

Anyway.

You've Got Mail

2.4 MILLION messages?

I think something has gone horribly awry.

Ask LazyWeb (Seattle Edition): Hair salon that does strange requests?

TL; DR: I’m looking for a hair salon in the Seattle area that will let me bring in my own hair dye.

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For want of a tote bag.

TL;DR: meri babbling about a bag that doesn’t exist.  (more…)

A whale of a good time.

My little point and shoot camera really wasn’t up to the task of taking photos on the wonderful whale-watching tour that Terri and I went on this past Wednesday. However, the wonderful guides at Western Prince Whale & Wildlife Tours got some great pictures, and were kind enough to share. So, I get to share with you!

If you happen to be in the area, I can’t recommend these folks more highly. They were professional, enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and a whole lot of fun.

Ask LazyWeb: Pay-Per-Click Firms?

I have a project to find a pay-per-click firm for a company to partner with. They have some criteria:

  • Large enough to handle multiple large-scale projects simultaneously
  • Small enough that they don’t think that anything short of landing McDonalds or Coke as a client isn’t worth their time
  • Based in North America
  • Can actually lay out their approach to PPC to you, instead of saying something along the lines of, “Well, PPC is more of an art than a science…”

And that’s about it.

I’m about to dive into our friend Google and do some searching, but if any of you have any recommendations (or anti-recommendations) (that aren’t just, “Ew. PPC evil.”), I’d love to hear them.

Mahalo!

Ask LazyWeb: Hosted ticketing systems?

Before you tell me to install RT, let me stop you: I don’t have a host to run this ticketing system on. That’s why I’m looking for a hosted system. Do any of you have any recommendations (or anti-recommendations) for such a thing?

My wish list is pretty minimal:

  • Queues
  • Email integration
  • Multiple users
  • Reasonable UI
  • Cheap (Free is even better)

I get the feeling this is going to be one of those, “pick three” sort of things, but I figured it can’t hurt to ask.