http://growwear.squidtop.com Squidoo Thoughts And Things Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:21:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What a week! So grateful! I went from publishing on Sunday, to a Purple Star on Tuesday, to Lens of the Day today. Homeless In America features photographs by Tom Stone from his American Poverty set at Flickr. A week or so ago, I wrote Tom to ask for (and received) ... http://growwear.squidtop.com/2009/08/28/purple-star-lotd-and-tears/ Getting more personal is always hard for me. Living the life I led as a child, there was always something to "keep under my belt." There was a lot of shame. So, I learned to be non-forthcoming. I also learned that if my mom and dad were fighting, and I ... http://growwear.squidtop.com/2009/08/08/getting-personal/ It was a slow start, but I'm a Giant Squid, now!! My original intention was to build just a few lenses during the Giant Squid Challenge June 2009. I had started the competition with 27 lenses. I just couldn't see my way clear to do anything more than add maybe four ... http://growwear.squidtop.com/2009/07/05/the-ride/ This has been a whirlwind ride! When I published my 50th, it was still a little incomplete -- needed a section filled in for a guest poster, and the intro artwork was not finished or attributed. In fact, the artwork and attribution, I am still not sure about. Well, I know ... http://growwear.squidtop.com/2009/06/30/50-lenses/ Another week of computer problems...feeling soooo behind! Here, before I crash again, are the three I did get done this past week: Write-A-Caption Contest Winners -- Ready for announcing winners for next six months. Will do a new one for 2010 if the contest goes that long. I hope so. :) A ... http://growwear.squidtop.com/2009/06/22/47-lenses-to-date/ Last week's post bemoaned the fact that I didn't get too many lenses done. This week is the same! All week, and even continuing into today, I don't know what my computer is going to do next.It has been a real hassle -- more time spent crashing and rebooting than ... http://growwear.squidtop.com/2009/06/14/44-lenses-to-date/ Coding in HTML would cause less mistakes and save time if you had something quick and easy to look at to see and tweak your work. That's why I like the side-by-side Tryit Editor v1.4 at W3Schools.com. There's nothing to download — just open the link in the browser. On the ... http://growwear.squidtop.com/2009/06/08/html-tables/ Seems like there should be more lenses to add since my last update, but this is all I could find for the last week. By this record, I should have at least one more to list. Feels like it's all I've been doing, so am pretty disappointed. Reflective Paint This tells ... http://growwear.squidtop.com/2009/06/08/race-to-giant-41/ Latest lenses are below. Pardon me if I've posted some of these before. Trying to get more organized so as not to do that. Tulips: Artwork And Photos Did this because I love tulips and wanted to show off some of the beautiful artwork to be found. The Family Today Wanted to ... http://growwear.squidtop.com/2009/05/31/race-to-giant-36/ Well, I had begun to add more to this blog, then RocketMoms came along, then the Giant Squid race took hold. Still have only 33 lenses, but really aspire to making the leap this time. ... So, I've been lax over here. ...And bushed! I do want to get in a ... http://growwear.squidtop.com/2009/05/26/rocketmoms-record/