Last night before going to bed, DH and I shared one final thought - where we where we last year? August 28, 2005 at 10pm we had evacuated to Mobile, AL with my brother’s girlfriend. We secured our apartment, only with tape on the windows, unable to put boards up. We pushed everything away from [...]

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By now, I’m sure you know all about flickr.com - you have all your pictures uploaded, organized in sets and comment on other people’s pics all the time, right? But do you know about Flickr Toys?
There are lots of ways to play with your photos:

Make your own moasic - use your favorite pictures for your [...]

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I have to admit that I am fascinated by the number of people who put their information out there on the Internet for the world to see. I have a blog, but with 98 percent of my entries (ok, really 99.5), I chicken out and post them friends-only, because I can’t handle not knowing [...]

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Why did no one tell me what an engaging author Jennifer Weiner is? I’ve heard you all talk about her books but somehow, on some subconscious level, I doubted anyone with the surname “Weiner” could write interesting, intelligent stories. Shame on me.
It was actually my sister (single and childfree) who got me to read this [...]

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I don’t have a lot of faith in the people in my neighborhood. I hate that I don’t, but I don’t. I live in a neighborhood with lots of people who are very wealthy. I also live in a neighborhood with lots of people who are very poor. We live right on the dividing line [...]

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Who would have ever expected that Firefox is such a useful and cool browser that even extraterrestrials prefer it to Internet Explorer.  We know how much CCer’s like!
To think that they did it all with some 2×4s and rope.  Genius I tell ya!
For more info about the project, click here (they’ve done other Firefox projects [...]

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1) You can subscribe to threads without posting - While in the thread, pull down the Thread Tools button (upper right corner). Select “Subscribe to This Thread” and you’re set! From there you can decide if you want to receive email subscriptions (and at what frequency) or if you’d like to use your [...]

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You have from now through the end of August to collect your photographic interpretation of the following 26 things. You can use pictures that you’ve already taken, but nothing that a professional has taken for you. Once you are done be sure to post your collection in our CC 26 Things group on Flickr (you’ll [...]

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Hello everyone and welcome to our latest CC adventure!
Since we just recently finished up our first year, we thought it was time to make some positive changes and some new additions to the site. I have to say, when we started this all a little over a year ago, I honestly never thought it [...]

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