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Mom-ism     [n., plural Mom-isms, from the root words: My Mom, circa 1996.] 1. An embarrassing gaffe, made publicly or privately (if you thereafter make it public), causing those around you to look at you with a mixture of pity, shame, horror and glee. All enveloped in gales of hysterical hooting and finger pointing. 2. Not to be confused with momism.

My family has been tracking Mom-isms for 28 years or more now, give or take a few years. That’s actively tracking… we also have a collection of some earlier Mom-isms from a time when we were too young to know what they were or to commit them ourselves. WHAT? Yep, that’s right — you don’t have to be Mom to commit them! In fact, you don’t even have to be female, just ask my Dad. “-) As the eldest child, it’s my duty (not to mention privilege) to act as the guardian of the Repository of Family Hoots — the first and foremost of which are Mom-isms. Still not sure what you will find here? Let me give you a quintessential example: Read the entire article »

Ok, so I’ve been organizing some notes on the default template and css that ship with Wordpress 1.2.1 with an eye to making it painless to style it straight out of the box. Being a lazy soul, I like things visual (as in “look at the pictures”) and quick (as in “crib sheet”). In pursuit of this goal, I’ve been putting together several sheets of the default Wordpress template box model as it currently exists… providing a quick visual look at things from different directions and hopefully resulting in something useful to all levels of users (except for the guru-types, of course). Like this: