Comments on: Navel gazing once again not a metaphor

By: Buy tadalis.

Buy tadalis. — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:42:49 +0000

Buy tadalis.

Buy tadalis.

By: Duprost.

Duprost. — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:22:01 +0000

Duprost.

Duprost.

By: riseyp

riseyp — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:14:54 +0000

Linda,

I spoke to my boyfriend about your experience using Blurb, since he works there now, and I *used* to work there a couple years ago. Awesomest company ever btw…

So anyway, here you have it, straight from the horse’s mouth (aka, Jason Bull QA Manager of Blurb.com):

“We support the Typepad blogging engine and we can ’slurp’ her entire blog straight into a book (I would suggest a 7×7 for blog books as they have the best blog-tastic layouts, but if she is going to have a lot of photos, more of a photo journal than a text blog, the other trim sizes may be better).

Make sure that she has BookSmart 1.9.2, the latest, and she can slurp her blog directly into a book without really having to do too much else to it. But we do recommend the following system requirements for Macs:

Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4.5 or later

Memory: 512 MB minimum, 1 GB or more recommended (especially for PPC Macs)

Processor: 1.5 GHz G4 minimum, 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo or faster recommended

The thing is that if she is running a G4 Mac with an un-updated version of Tiger, she is likely to find the whole experience pretty miserable. You can do it. But it is no fun. At the very least she should run software update to make sure that she has the latest Java installed, as that sorts out a series of instabilities caused by OS X. But the G4s are not really powerful enough to push around the BookSmart bits I fear…

My advice would be that she try again, try to make a 7×7 blog book slurped directly from her site. If the application is still too slow on her hardware, then I fear that she will have to go to one of our competitors… L

Hope this helps.

J.”

By: Victoria

Victoria — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:21:24 +0000

I think your photo is absolutely beautiful and I’d favourite it myself with no creepy intentions whatsoever! : )

Also, try the Stephanie Plum (bouty hunter) series, they’re silly and fast although have some violence if you’re prone to nightmares…. (wait, am I making sense yet?)

By: Frannie

Frannie — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:09:26 +0000

That is so awesome!! 9 months and still DIY the way it should be. Take that, Demi Moore. Wow, you’ve truly inspired me for some great ideas when I (ever) get pregnant!!

By: Beenami

Beenami — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:42:16 +0000

How ’bout short stories? “Interpreter of Maladies is one of my favorite books ever, and you can come and go and still get a worthwile coupla minutes. Along the same ethnic/short story theme the book “Arranged Marriage” is also great, and they might talk about henna in it, so you can look at your belly knowingly while you read.

By: bad penguin

bad penguin — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:38:32 +0000

that’s a beautiful photo! You don’t look demi moore-esque at all. I’ve been trying to think of a good book recommendation, but apparently I haven’t read anything fun recently at all. I need to lighten up.

By: Diablevert

Diablevert — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 05:26:27 +0000

Cue pic. Book: Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis. Gay, debonair, a classic.

By: Mom101

Mom101 — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 03:57:23 +0000

Sorry to blow Mary O’s sense of symmetry, but the photos are absolutely stunning. Go you.

By: Mary O

Mary O — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:46:49 +0000

I thought I’d make it an even 100 comments for you! Your belly looks gorgeous. =)