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My Latest Big Project: The Mom Invented Website
Well, today marks the official launch of the new Mom Invented site. I’ve spent the past many weeks getting the look in place, the content ready and the custom templates set up. It was my first time working with the Mimbo Pro 2 theme, and though I still have a few things to work out, [...]
Hello New France To Go!
I’ve been meaning to work on my blog’s design for a long time and just kept putting it off. But when Evan purchased a theme for his new knowledge base site from Woo Themes, they were (and still are) having a buy one get one free deal, so I found one I liked, called Thick, [...]
Weekly Reading: Tech, Tech, Tech, Chocolate!
I’m back from Florida and have plenty to share. I’ll be putting up the pictures and posting about the trip soon, but for now I have lots of new stories out on these fair interwebs. Not presented in the order the headline would lead you to believe, let’s start with dessert…
First, there’s my SpoiledinLA Holiday [...]
A Short Jaunt Back to London
Since Evan and I left London, I’ve wanted to go back. Luckily, we had tickets waiting for us (the last leg of the around-the-world trip plus our original return tickets). We thought we’d be using them over Thanksgiving, but since we’re still unemployed, we decided to move up the date and head out the first [...]
The Pitney Bowes Ad That Caught My Eye
After all the QR and 2d code talk last week, I of course starting seeing the codes everywhere. And even in the US, where I said they weren’t used much commercially. I still stand by that they’re really used only for B2B purposes — there was one on my flight check-in print-out from Continental. There [...]
Free WiFi Woes
Now, I know there is free WiFi in London. Londonist has their lovely free WiFi map. And though the places can be few and far between in some areas, there are some places people always seem to be going for a free connection.
Well, first I tried Leon on Brompton and had no luck whatsoever finding [...]
Social Media Club and QR Codes
Today I got myself out of the house for almost the entire day by going to the Social Media Club/Tuttle Club. Now a weekly event every Friday starting at 10 a.m. at Norman’s Coach and Horses on Greek Street in Soho, the group is a lively confluence of professional marketers, bloggers, developers and social media [...]
New Articles on Entrepreneur.com and Hitched
Two more articles up this week: One on Entrepreneur.com about new billing/payment trends, which ended up being much more interesting than it sounds. Well, at least the interviews were. I got to talk to people at four different alternative billing companies — Bill Me Later, eBillme, Revolution Money and BSG Clearing Solutions — and hear [...]
Is That Ringing in My Ears?
I’ve been having a problem with what I’ve been calling “the beep.” Basically, it’s someone’s fax machine that has been calling the apartment over and over and over again. It started late last week. I must have received 30 calls in an hour or so — and I left the phone plugged in because I [...]
More Technical Problems
Just wanted to apologize for my blog and website’s inconsistencies over the past week. First I couldn’t update. Then everything went down for about a day, I believe. I don’t know exactly, since I wasn’t online all weekend and only got back this morning, when things were broken.
If you’re interested in the technical details, first [...]
New Posts, New Pictures
After 2+ days of being unable to post, the hosting issues are sorted out (apparently a PHP upgrade caused the problem — thanks, John, for helping me out with that).
I’ve finally been able to add the images I wanted to posts from the past week, which are all from my sketchbook. Check them out:
Lunchtime [...]
Lunchtime at Leon
Today, I went on a bit of a walk down to Leon by Harrods (which I have yet to go into). The place had some funky decor, mostly consisting of images of oranges and bulls, and it had customer response postcards with photos of Leon them and a mailbox by the door to drop them [...]
New Sidebar Feature: What I’m Reading
I decided to try out the shared rss feed I can create from Google Reader and let everyone in on the things I’ve been reading that I find interesting. Check it out below my Twitter posts and let me know what you think — especially if you want more than 5 links down there.
Check Out Evan’s New Site
There has been a lot of website development going on in this apartment, what with this blog and my redesigned website, but Evan’s been working on a site too, and now it’s up and running and looking great. It’ll link you to his photo site, info about his films, his IMDb page and even some [...]
The New Site Is Finally Up
I’ve been meaning to redesign my website, francinekizner.com, for quite a while now, and after a lot of work, it’s finally up.
Old site:
New site:
Let me know what you think.