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WordCamp Atlanta 2010

January 10, 2010 in Techie Trivialities by Julia | 6 comments

I spent the past day and a half down­town at the inau­gural Word­Camp Atlanta, which turned out to be one of the best technical/​professional con­fer­ences I’ve ever attended. Usu­ally I find that there is at least one time slot, and usu­ally sev­eral, where there is no pre­sen­ta­tion in which I am inter­ested. Not so this […]

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Running a Really Small Business

November 6, 2009 in Business, Cat Comments by Julia | 6 comments

One thing I keep research­ing is man­ag­ing a really, really small busi­ness like Art of the Fire­bird. Heaven knows there’s a lot of infor­ma­tion out there about small busi­nesses, but so much of it is geared toward either peo­ple who want to be con­sul­tants of some sort, toward peo­ple who are open­ing brick-​and-​mortar retail, or […]

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Meh

November 4, 2009 in Lampworking & Glass, Miscellaneous by Julia | No comments

Here I am try­ing to blog every day for a month, four days in, and I have noth­ing to say. Do we call this “blogger’s block,” akin to writer’s block? Or is it just symp­to­matic of the entire day, when I couldn’t get mov­ing this morn­ing, was blah all through class, came home and fell […]

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On a technogeek roll…

January 19, 2008 in Techie Trivialities by Julia | No comments

Not only are my tunes work­ing, but I spent a cou­ple of hours tonight and got my new Wacom Bam­boo Fun tablet work­ing.? Now THAT was a non-​trivial task.? All the nec­es­sary steps of down­load­ing mod­ules, build­ing them, get­ting files into the right direc­to­ries, edit­ing sys­tem files to rec­og­nize the hard­ware, and so on were […]

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Best of the Week ending 1÷6÷2008

January 7, 2008 in Arty Stuff, Best of the Week, Business, Lampworking & Glass by Julia | No comments

Best lampworking-​related blog entries for the week end­ing 1÷6÷2008: Char­lene Anderson’s New Year’s Res­o­lu­tions, received from a friend, are worth con­sid­er­ing. Luann Udell does some year-​end mus­ing about orga­ni­za­tion, plans, and goals. Joanna Mueller reminds us we can find “pure ele­gance in the sim­plest details.“ Kendra Sanders describes how color changes her life and her bead­mak­ing for Col­lec­tive Cre­atives. Etsy’s […]

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