A Jane of Most Trades

..then quit trying to make it work. I was reading in one of my favorite blogging forums this particular post where someone said you must have a certain thing with lots of other certain things in order to accomplish something and that was the only way. Period. End of discussion. I wanted to reply but [...]

There are few things more frustrating than plopping down a bunch of money on software that you know you may never fully utilize before it’s completely outdated. And there are few things more unfortunate than not being able to use the same programs on all your computers due to licensing restrictions. Inkscape a vector graphics [...]

… that sometimes friends are very destructive.. I know that sounds pretty negative, but it’s true. I’m not going to foster the idea that everyone out there is out to crush your dreams or undermine your self confidence because most people aren’t, but sometimes the most well intentioned people can have issues of their own [...]

In WordPress the how is the easy part. When adding a new post look in the right upper hand corner of the screen. That’s it. Once you’ve written your post and selected “Schedule” it will publish on your blog at the time you defined. The why part is a bit more involved. If you have [...]

Social networking can be lonely stuff. After all, I sit in my little home office drinking coffee and trying to explain in detail to people why they should pay attention to me using 140 characters or less. And I try to do this in less time than it takes me to actually write the article [...]

This is probably the hardest part of the process; deciding how specific or broad, how personal or professional, and exactly how detailed your posts should be can be a much more difficult process than just writing the posts. Actual writing skills can be helpful, but absolutely perfect written English is not a requirement. There are [...]

Actually, let’s be honest: On any given day writing is probably going to be more for fun and less for profit. I have a handful of blogs that I keep up (more or less regularly), I write (shamelessly) for a content mill, and from time to time I  actually bother to get articles published through [...]

Somewhere along the line this blog just meandered around and lost focus (probably because somewhere along the line I started going to school and had no time for anything that wasn’t school or family related.) Since the whole thing went to hell anyway, I decided to take the J.J. Abrams route and give the whole [...]