thatgrrl

I was reading about someone who has posted to a freelance job finding site, trying to get someone to list their site in the Dmoz directory. This person wants to pay someone to get the site listed immediately. There were five people who replied. One claimed to have done this before, for payment. The problem [...]

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The above was on top of my Gmail this morning. An ad supported by Google. An ad that abuses and preys on a commonly known problem for women. An ad that calls women ugly. An ad that [...]

What? She’s writing about dating again… Yes, she (I mean) I am. Not for any good or useful purpose. I’m not going to change the world though I humour myself and keep right on trying.
Today let’s talk about online dating etiquette. For one thing, spelling does count and punctuation does matter. I know a lot [...]

Valentines Day is approaching. Your lover does not want a new coffee machine, even if he or she really does need one. Some people (mainly men it seems) get into a flap about February 14th, saying it’s too much pressure. Other people (mainly women) get sad around this time of the year. They say they [...]

Yet again I have escaped death! How you may wonder… did I dive with sharks or something adventureous like that. Why no, I crossed the street, with the lights at a well marked pedestrian crosswalk on a clear day. I was even wearing a red coat, almost a bonus stop sign for anyone tempted to [...]

I like thinking about the possibilities without having to know or consider all the cold, hard facts. I like thinking about time travel, robots, aliens and my favourite… how civilization staggers upright after an end of the world catasrophe. It’s all creative ideas. True, it should grounded in facts somewhere along the way. But that [...]

Here we are, not getting any younger and maybe a little more shapely and curvy than we’d like to be. We know the route to being thinner is diet and exercise. The problem is finding the motivation for this self deprivation and torture.
Future MILFs is an online group of women (not the only one) but [...]

Do you recycle your books once you have read and finished with them? I tend to keep most of my non-fiction books but I take all the fiction to a used/ second hand bookstore. I exchange them for new books (new to me). It’s also a really great way to find older books by [...]

You wouldn’t know it by standing over my shoulder any time but I am trying to write a book. It’s not easy. I already have the general idea for the story, the characters, and even the time to work on it. The problem is converting what made a good short story into a long story. [...]

I applied to write a topic at About.com. If anyone has good contacts there I would appreciate a good word put in for me. It’s not the first topical network I have written for but it seems to be the toughest to get into. Which is a good thing for the writers, site owners and [...]

It bugs me when I go to a business or charity type of site and find they have nothing extra to offer me. Not only is it harder and harder to find a real way of contacting anyone online but they are often really skimpy on content too. What are they saving it for? Why [...]

I don’t understand the big emphasis on incoming links in deciding which sites are popular. It seems a very backwards way to judge the value of something. Especially when you consider how very easy it is to create as many incoming links as you can stand to create. Leave a comment in a blog and [...]

Spam blogs, those which offer no original content (of their own making) yet flood their blog with Adsense and other get rich quick type of ads are known as splogs. I’m sure you’ve seen a few at least. Advertising has been around for years, on websites and all other forms of media. But, television, magazines, [...]

One thing I really wanted to do with this site was bring together a list of resources (including sites and ezines) for plus sized women. So far I have only found a few that I really like on my own. I’m looking for some reader input here. If you have a site or know of [...]

What else would you call the anniversary of your wedding once you have been divorced? If Alice in Wonderland can have an UnBirthday, I can have an UnWedding Anniversary. So today I did. I was married on December 14th, some year or other. It was a snowy day in a small Illinois town.
Today was another [...]

Why are you online? What got you started? Chances are it had something to do with socializing. As great as it is to meet people from around the world while sitting in the comfort of your own home, it’s also a pressure cooker. In part being involved with any group can be a lot of [...]

Wrapping paper and Christmas cards are part of the tradition but how about being even more creative and environmentally friendly? Sending online Christmas cards isn’t the same but it’s an alternative. If you buy cards get them in a box, buying a single card will cost a lot more. Plus you will have enough cards [...]

Long ago when the Internet and its websites were still campy versus professional, there were webrings. I miss webrings. Sure, they are still around but it’s not the same. Webrings are just one more dinosaur leftover, not quite retro yet.
I’m not sure why they began to die off as a species. You can still find [...]

I know a group of useless men who will answer any question you email them. I like to come up with questions for them. Some real, some in fun but I would really like to find a question that just totally stops them in their tracks. That question that even the Useless Men and One [...]

I let him in because I knew a guy was coming to look at the furnace, sometime between 10 and 12:00am. He was there to look at the furnace and let the landlord (my brother) know if we needed a new one or could refurbish the old one. Maybe air conditioning too. So, I let [...]