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“There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain…”

Sometimes, the Net is like Serendip, the mythical place  of wonderful discoveries, and the basis of the word Serendipity, coined by Horace Walpole. It seems fashionable these days to denigrate the Internet. to I was looking for public-domain silhouette images, and found this link to Karen’s Whimsy. Great stuff, and she’s cross-referenced things so they’re easier to find.

Then I followed some links to another of Karen’s sites, Artful Journey. She doesn’t post often, but instead of quantity, the quality is outstanding. This post, Alzheimer’s +Art, is both brilliant and heart-rending. Karen’s late mother suffered from Alzheimer’s. Karen amazes: she’s honest and brave enough to cop to being impatient and cranky with and about her gravely ill mother; and so sharp that she noriced her mother was, in fact making art, rather than playinf with her food, or idly pickng up leaves and twigs. Karen - who is also an excellent photographer -  captured a number of her mother’s pieces. They are like messages smuggled out by  a hostage or prisoner. The Alzheimer’s + Art post by itself makes me grateful for my Internet connection.

There’s more, and because of the multiple domains and volume of material, probably more than an entire day’s worth of exquisite browsing. Don’t miss her site Altered Books:The Art of Happiness. The poem below is taken from this page.

Once and again we are all confronted with the necessity for some magic of the mind to simply forget the miserable

We seem to be having a wee bit of server trouble - so we’ll close now with an exhortation to visit Karen at her various sites.

At least - that’s what Artisteer says it is - and, in fact, what it looks like, if you take a look at, for instance, these themes in the WordPress ThemeViewer. We hope to get the time to play with it soon.

We’re currently using the theme Author’s Grid 1.0.

Download available here

Yesterday one of my blogs died. Disappeared. Bad, bad bad. Totally over my head. In the WordPress Codex, found a link to WodPress Help - Podz @Tamba2. From his great tutorials - the artist formerly known as Podz is now known as Matt - I was able to bring it back from the dead. We are in Matt’s debt. Not a lot of tutorials - but what is there are all you need to know about corrupt databases, fixing them, backing up, and restoring.

And now he’s offering hosting at Freshly Pressed, a host with a focus on, and expertise with WordPress.

This sandbox was originally a place for me to make mistakes, so I wouldn’t make mistakes on my blogs Popular Logistics, Caton Avenue, and a few others that I’ve set up for friends.

But since I make lots of mistakes, and need to refer back, this sandbox - and sometimes my other sandbox - TestLab as well are notebooks for teaching myself WordPress, little bits of html, littler bits of graphic design, and microscopic bits of CSS.

The most comprehensive list of free and royalty-free images I’ve seen yet. I don’t think it includes PICAPP, which we’ve been using as a WordPress plugin.

Pow! Free Stock Images.

Donald G McNeil, Jr. of The New York Times reports an outbreak of a fatal hemorrhagic fever in southern Africa. The as yet unnamed virus has killed four out of the five people infected.

The first victim, Cecilia Van Derventer, was transported from Zambia to a clinic in the Johannesburg suburbs. The cause her infection is unknown but the subsequent victims were all health care workers treating Ms. Van Derventer. The one survivor was given Ribivirin and is responding well to treatment.

The virus is of the arenavirus family and is often found in the dried urine of rodents. Disease is caused when the virus is inhaled. Infection begins with flu like symptoms progressing to diarrhea, a measles-like rash, to respiratory and circulatory collapse.

There have been no new reported cases since the last death. Officials will wait 21 days before declaring the outbreak over.

some examples of gretchen’s favorite letter

Pasta: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pasta, dry, unenriched
Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz)
Energy 370 kcal 1550 kJ
Carbohydrates 75 g
- Starch 62 g
- Sugars 2 g
- Dietary fibre 3 g
Fat 1.5 g
Protein 13 g
Water 10 g
Folate (Vit. B9) 18 ?g 5%
Percentages are relative to US
recommendations for adults.
Source: USDA Nutrient database

Pasta (Italian for “dough”) is a generic term for Italian variants of noodles, food made from a dough of flour, water and/or eggs, that is boiled.

Fusilli

The word can also denote dishes in which pasta products are the primary ingredient, served with sauce or seasonings.

There are approximately 350 different shapes of pasta.[1] Examples include spaghetti (solid, thin cylinders), maccheroni (tubes or hollow cylinders), fusilli (swirls), and lasagne (sheets). Two other noodles, gnocchi and spätzle, are sometimes counted as pasta because they are traditional in Italy.   Pasta is categorized in two basic styles: Dried and Fresh. Depending upon

whether or not pasta includes eggs as an ingredient, the shelf life of pasta can be several years.[2]. Pasta is boiled before consumption.