I have decided in the lengthy time period it has been since my last post that having a nearly 2-year-old personal portfolio Web site and having a decent blog powered by a fully customizable CMS is, in reality, exactly what we journalists strive to avoid being: Redundant.  My information is in two places on the interwebs, on my portfolio site and my blog,  when it really needs to be in one. With Wordpress that should be an easy transition.  I’ll …

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I’ve been very absent and neglectful in posting recently.  No excuse for that.
Since my last update I graduated from college (what a weird and anti-climactic feeling that was) and sent a few more resumes out, just to see if I can snag any bites.  We’ll see.
If you were looking forward to more frequent posts from me, I’m sorry to disappoint.  The only blogging I will be able to do will be from internet cafes that I stumble into in Europe, …

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I thought these little Photoshopped gems were stupid at first. But they’ve grown on me. Yes, I speak of the famed lolcatz. This one is a contender for my favorite:

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The practice of posing your felines in awkward positions just to get a priceless caption isn’t a horrible idea. I don’t know where the weird language came from, but it’s an irresistible combination that is a recipe for a laugh. This coming from a gal who …

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What began last week as a nightmare has ended in some lessons well learned. A while back I accepted the task of building a Flash site for a local company that specializes in customized school footwear fund raisers for high schools across the country. What the client wanted was very simple and fairly easy to build, but I will shamefully admit that my heart and soul was not fully into the design, and it wasn’t my best. …

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I have to give a lot of credit to our department of journalism. Not a day goes by that I don’t receive some nugget of information in my e-mail inbox. If it’s from Charles Harris (all UF j-students know this mysterious man, the phantom e-mailer/Director of the Knight Division), I know that I’ll read about the happenings of our college. To my detriment, I’ve become the kind of e-mail-skimming zombie who mindlessly deletes things just so my mailbox …

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