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Technorati widget acting up

May 30, 2008 by Tricia

Has anyone else noticed that their Technorati widget is acting up?

Early yesterday morning I noticed that the Technorati widget on a few of my blogs was showing a huge list of websites within it.

I don’t have my Technorati widget set up to show tags or anything other than my profile link, the sites authority and a Technorati search box. However my widget appears to be showing a list of sites that either I’ve faved or that have faved my blog. There isn’t even an option for the widget to show anything like that, so this is very strange.

I went to Technorati and search the discussions in the help section and their weblog to see if anyone else had mentioned that their widget looked odd, but I haven’t found any mention of it.

Yet, as I’ve surfed the net I’ve seen the widget acting up on other peoples blogs.

Luckily I’ve only got the widget set up to show on the main page of my blog. It looks ugly! I hope they fix this problem.

If you’re using the Technorati widget on your blog go and take a look and see if yours looks odd too.

I wonder if you have to have the widget on your site to continue to stay listed in Technorati or not?

Design your own Logo and Business cards

May 29, 2008 by Tricia

If you’ve been thinking of creating business cards to promote your website, online business or company you might want to visit LogoYes.

I just tried out the free logo design demo on their site and within just a few minutes I had created a logo for Tricia’s Musings. Take a look at what I created:

It was easy! LogoYes has a simple step by step proceedure that’s foolproof. You can even go back a step or two if you change your mind about what you are creating!

The first step is to choose the type of image you want your logo to portray – High-tech, bold and flair are the three choices. I picked flair for my logo style.

Once you’ve selected your style you’ll need to decide which industry your business or website falls into. This is a fairly general blog that discusses a number of topics so I had a bit of trouble choosing my “industry”. I eventually decided to go with health and beauty as I discuss health topics quite often.

Step three involved picking a symbol (image) from my industry of choice to use in my logo. As you can see I picked a flower bouquet. There is a wide variety of images to choose from so you’ll be sure to find a symbol that will depict your website or business quite well.

Step four and five were the most fun steps. This is where you can chose the colors of your logo and add text to it as well. I choose to simple add the name of my blog – Tricia’s Musings. I then decided to make the bouquet a red color and matched the text of Tricia’s Musings as closely in color as I could to the main green colors of my blog.

What you see above is the logo I created.

I then went on to create a simple business card by going through two additional steps:

Now i have a logo for my site that closely matches the style of my blog. This of course is known as branding. If I order these business cards those who visit my site after receiving a card will see that the cards colors and logo are similar to that of the site.

I’m quite pleased with how my logo and business card turned out.

LogoYes also does custom Logo Design so if you can’t find a Do It Yourself logo that works well for your company you can inquire about having a custom logo made for your business.

This was actually a fun process to go through. Anyone could design their own logo using a system such as this. Give it a try.

Re-living his disco days?

May 28, 2008 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

This guy looks like he’s reliving his disco days and seriously scaring the clubs female patrons!

The look on the girl to the rights face is just priceless. Perhaps this man has even more hair on his back than he does on his shoulders and chest? Maybe that’s why she’s making that face!

My husband just wrote a post on his blog about Disco – and well disco era clothing being back – and I think this photo would fit right into that post perfectly.

Is it the flu?

May 27, 2008 by Tricia

Earlier this evening, just after Chris got home from work, I suddenly became really nauseated. I have no idea why.

I tend to get mildly nauseated quite often due to the Crohn’s disease, but what I experienced this evening was full on nausea. I hope I don’t have the flu.

I was laying on my side on the couch doing something on the laptop when it hit me. I decided to just try lying flat to see if that would help and it made it worse. It took about two hours to settle down again – all of the time with me thinking I was going to toss my cookies at any moment. Bleh.

Needless to say we didn’t have the nice steak that we were planning on barbecuing. We had macaroni. Other than soup it was the only bland thing I could think of that probably wouldn’t upset my stomach even more. I’m not the biggest fan of mac and cheese either so I guess I had another awful dinner.

Hopefully I feel better tomorrow after a good sleep.

In other news … I think Midnight has started to figure out how to undo the latches on her crate. Two or three times in the last week I’ve found one undone when I know they were both done up. I guess we’ll have to get one of those small tsa locks to put on the crate when we go out if she keeps this up.

Darn smart puppy.

Waiting for blooms

May 25, 2008 by Tricia

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My garden is at the awkward stage that comes every year around this time.

The tulips are still in bloom, but they are aging and will soon be gone. The roses are in bud but haven’t flowered yet. The clematis, peonies, Rhododendron, and Johnson’s Blue Geranium (above) are also in bud ….

But I’m waiting for blooms.

Don’t get me wrong. The garden looks lovely. However, after the long cold very snowy winter we had this year I’m longing for those bursts of color in the garden that I so enjoy.

I’m thankful that I have so many pictures to look at as I wait to see these plants burst with new blossoms.

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information. GTS participants remember to check in at As the Garden Grows each week so that we’ll know you made a new post!

Design your own Logo and Business cards

Re-living his disco days?

Is it the flu?

Waiting for blooms

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