Posts Tagged ‘blog’

A Blog Post About a Paper on Blogging

May 1st, 2010

Blogging as Communicating Intra- and Inter- Personal Identity, Story, Passion, and Community by Dena Rosko, pictured 3rd from the left, is a technical paper in which Hot Air Balloun and I are specimens (My section begins on page 21). I’ve known Dena for many years so when I agreed to be interviewed for her [...]


Ding 30

November 24th, 2009

Thank you to everyone who came out to my early birthday party on Saturday, thank you for the gifts, thank you for friendship. Thank you everyone who posted on my facebook wall and filled my gmail inbox to the brim with facebook notifications. I really enjoyed my birthday party, spending time with friends, [...]


The Twitter-Sphere

April 23rd, 2008

If you don’t know what Twitter is, this video from Common Craft is the best explanation I’ve seen (thanks Ragan for showing me!). At first I thought Twitter was stupid: You post the random activities you’re doing throughout the day and those that are “following” you can read your updates. You are also exposed [...]


Back in Business

January 25th, 2008

Hot Air Balloun is back in business with a fresh new look…and an author that is motivated again. Hurray for all four of you that read this and subscribe to the RSS!
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Blogger and the Nitty Gritty

November 19th, 2006

Blogger does what it does well, but not without its limitations. These limitations, can be bent and sometimes bypassed. There are many Blogger Hacks sites out there, but one resource in particular that I found very useful is Ecmanaut. Johan is the author’s name and he lives in Sweden. I wouldn’t [...]


New Look!

November 13th, 2006

HotAir Balloun now has a new look! After many hours of work, half of them were spent delightfully experimenting with design ideas whereas the other half was spent %&*@’ing with Blogger glitchiness. Firefox rendered everything perfectly. However, in internet explorer, if I updated the template more than say 3 or 4 times, [...]