barcamp milwaukee four is coming up this weekend.
i’ll see you there. right?
Archive for September, 2009
free advice for the taking..
September 24th, 2009
since this idea was too long to fit in a tweet, i’m posting it as a blog. (novel idea, right?)
so we have all heard a lot about this great healthcare debate.. right? so what’s one more post to over-saturate the subject 
but in all seriousness.. this is a huge issue in our country. the united states is the only developed country that has the issue of people going bankrupt because of medical expenses.. because we are the *only* developed country without universal health care. in 2001, half of all american bankruptcy filings were linked to medical issues (which brought the bankruptcy numbers up 2,300% more than it was just 20 years before). and this isn’t something that’s just effecting the unemployed.. or “those” people in urban areas…. or *enter some other term you use for people that you don’t think are in your close circle of friends here*…. there’s a rising number of suburban poverty and lack of care for our neighbors in the suburbs… even our friends and neighbors that are employed full time are loosing their health insurance. actually, 46 MILLION of our neighbors, friends, family and co-workers were without health insurance in 2007. 46 million. that’s 46,000,000 people. that’s the entire population of spain.
so yea.. we’ve probably heard all this before.. from politicians.. media.. etc. but i’m saying it again. something. must. be. done.
and i think some politicians have been doing a great job of making a strong case for this much needed health care reform. but we’re still getting absolute ridiculous rumors that are being made up and used to scare people. maybe we need to get more personal. sure, it’s easy to read over the numbers and reasons for reform if you think of the problem being for “those people”… and not “our ????????? ???? ????? ? ????? people”… our neighbors, friends, family and co-workers.
so here’s an idea: lets do some research. figure out the people who are so vocally refusing to listen to the health care reform issues… find out who in their life is really suffering because of the current health care system. friends.. family.. heck, even their hair dresser, dog groomer or babysitter. then bring that person with their family to the debate. then have the person opposing health care reform say to their friend’s face
why they don’t support helping them out with a universal health care option.
we need to make this personal
*hops off her soap box*
Current Mood: 
hopeful
hopefulbear with me…
September 20th, 2009
so i’m trying to set up a way to aggregate my social media content here on everymoment.org.. and boy this is much harder than it looks. i need to go through and clean out all my different cross posting settings.. in order to avoid that annoying double posting thing. so bear with me. while i’m testing out all these plugins and feed readers and cross posters and whatevers… my social media profiles might be more of a mess than usual. ????? ??????? ????? ??? ??????????? ???? ????? ???????
Current Mood: nerdy
Current Music: tegan and sara
are you happy?
September 17th, 2009
i just love this.
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em#13 – just a normal week
September 12th, 2009
so it’s been a while since i’ve made a video. and not because i haven’t been up to some awesome stuff.. but because i’ve been up to *too* much awesome stuff. so this update is basically just a random update… random video and random events from my week. my week included lots of work on web design stuff (but that doesn’t make for very interesting video… so it’s not really represented here), saving a friend’s windows PC from a computer virus, the montly web414 meeting, and some video from indian summer festival down at milwaukee’s lakefront. live’s too short to be bored.. right?
so this update is basically just a random update… random video and random events from my week. my week included lots of work on web design stuff (but that doesn’t make for very interesting video… so it’s not really represented here), saving a friend’s windows PC from a computer virus, the montly web414 meeting, and some video from indian summer festival down at milwaukee’s lakefront. live’s too short to be bored.. right?Formats available
i love living in milwaukee
September 11th, 2009
i’m sure i’ve said it before.. but i’ll say it again. i do love this town. maybe it’s because we live almost half of our year bundled up in layers of clothing with hats, scarves, mittens and snow boots… staying inside where it’s warm… short days of sunlight.. (etc.) but summer in this town is always filled with fun stuff. this weekend is (as far as i know) the final ethnic summer festival at the summerfest grounds: indian summer. it will be fun.. it always is a fun time. and i love the fact that milwaukee does these festivals almost every weekend.
so far this summer we have attended (at those same festival grounds):
if you notice, me and jackie have attended every single ethnic festival on the lakefront festival grounds. also notice that in that list, the biggest summer festival here in milwaukee, summerfest, was *not* listed… nor was it attended. and this was by design. i remember the days when i really loved going to summerfest… and now i just get annoyed by the loud music and rowdy drunk crowds. maybe i’m getting old… but i’d rather not have to pay $15 to have overpriced beer spilled on me. (“get off my lawn!” ????? ????? ????? ????? )
well look at that.. it’s 2:30am. when’d that sneak up on me? *shakes her cane at the air*
time for bed ???????
tagging 1,342 blog posts takes a long time…
September 7th, 2009
so this might take longer than expected to get everything up and running as smoothly as i would like. but at least it’s working to a point that i can start blogging & video blogging again.
it’s also nice to have a much better interface for adding video and pictures. the last design (the one, really thin column with the brown background) was actually my “rebelling” against all the blog designs that started coming out with two and three columns of “stuff” cluttering up the page at the time i created it. (and actually.. still today. and i’m not saying that you shouldn’t have multiple columns in your blog design.. it’s just… well.. it can be done correctly.. and planned out… or it can end up looking like content and social media puked all over your website … i’m just sayin’) so now, years later, as big, impacting video and images rule the web… the old narrow design just wasn’t cutting it anymore. plus, there were plenty of things that were broken about that design. it was the first time that i had used a wordpress release that used templates. so i definitely just learned as i went and i see now how much i didn’t understand when i created (read: threw together with duct tape and chewing gum) the old template design.
so i will be continuing to clean up things in the back end (which will take a long time. especially since i’m working with over eight years of blog entries here) and will be using this site to not only post my video blogs/podcasts (which you can subscribe to either via RSS or in iTunes… links are on the left side), but also other random things about design, random things found on the internetz and life in general.
it’s good to be back. ????? ?????
this video has no purpose
September 6th, 2009
cept to be used for testing out a bunch of stuff. so really.. you don’t have to watch it :P ????? ??????? ????????? ??????
well.. at least it's working.. right?
September 6th, 2009
if you haven’t noticed… i (FINALLY) finished up the everymoment.org redesign… i also updated my wordpress (which was looooong overdue) and for some reason several of my entries got their post dates all jumbled around.
but hey.. at least it’s working.. right? ??a?a?? ?????a??? ????? ??????