March 2009 « Tomorrow or Today

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-22

: Back to the life-plan drawingboard. #
: Blarg! My shoulder is killing me! #
: So. Hungry. May not live to hear the oven timer ding. #
: Wearing green but feeling blue. #
: Glob & Mail article on Craft & the Economy : http://tinyurl.com/dchqpt #
: Ha, ha, ha! I said “glob”! #
: The sun is glaring in my eyeball. Haven’t decided if this is a good thing or a bad thing. #

The Interweb is a Wonderful Place

In my travels around the web I tend to find cool stuff. So I think to myself, why not share?
Other people like finding links to free, cool stuff too, right?

This week: All things Font-y!

First up, who hasn’t dreamed of turning their own handwriting into a font on the computer? I know I have! Well, I’ve come across a couple of sites that allow you to do it! How cool is that? I plan on doing this sometime very soon.

By far, in my humble opinion, the best site for free fonts has got to be Da Font (pictured above.) There, you’ll find fonts for both PCs and Macs, in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Some free for personal use and others just plain free.

How many of you have ever wondered how the heck to get your regular, old keyboard to type out all those crazy accented letters and odd symbols? Well, you can stop wondering because these websites have a bunch of codes for the Extended and Special Character Sets.

And on a font-y tangent, it was this awesome site that I used to make the word cloud of me the other day. The plus is that you can save and use your created word clouds any way you choose (as long as you let people know you created it using the Wordle site.)

Anyhoo, that’s all I’ve got for you this week. Check back in 2 weeks and I’ll probably have found some more! You know, because the internet is awesome like that.

Sprung

Happy Spring Equinox, everyone!

I love spring. Not as much as I love autumn, but it’s definitely a close second. Tiny little buds unfurl, bright sunshine means warmer temperatures instead of colder, and the days slowly begin to get longer again. While it may not yet be perfectly spring-like up here in these northern climes, there have been several warm days already and all but the most stubborn of snow piles has long melted.

This morning was chilly but I could smell spring in the air when I took Daisy for a walk. (You know, that “growing” smell. The smell that comes after the dog-poop-like sent of soggy ground has gone, but before the perfume of pollen has a chance to fill the air.) And the birds are singing again. They’ve come back and right now I can hear them chirping up a storm outside my window.

Yup, spring is definitely here and in another month I’ll start seeing sights like these lovely blue flowers popping up all around my neighbourhood! Yay!

P.S. : Happy Persian New Year, Shima!

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-15

: Asparagus, wasabi mashed potatoes
& wine and herb marinated salmon for dinner #
: Perhaps my brain has finally, truly melted. #
: Boylan Ginger Ale rox my sox. #
: Tell me again, why I can’t somehow make a living by sitting at home under a quilt with a book, a cup of tea and my dog? #
: WTF. Why is it snowing?!? #
: Eating breakfast but craving lunch. #
: Wasted my day on a broken file. Blarg. #
: Torn between the gym and the Watchmen. #
Sipping tea from a giant “Sarah” mug. Thanks, @clo! #
: Morning already? #
: Laundry marathon. #