I normally don’t bother to keep track of my blogging anniversary but for some reason this year I noticed it. Four years ago today, my first post was made. I have officially been boring you with dog photos and unfinished knits for 4 years. In some ways I am proud of my blog, and at [...]

I am thinking of changing my blog theme, and have decided to put more of my specialized code into widgets to make changing themes easier in the future. I’ve also decided to give twitter a try, and stuck a widget for that in the sidebar as well as a Ravelry widget. I am not sure [...]

Just testing a new plugin for photos named Scissors since Image Manager is now discontinued. It has an option for watermarks which I am not sure I like…. but hey it’s worth trying out….. right?

I have decided to keep most of my Warcraft/gaming out of this blog. Not that you won’t see it from time to time but there shouldn’t be entire posts about it anymore. So… shmoo and I have started a Warcraft blog together. It may or may not be posted to regularly, but if you play, [...]

I finally got off my ass and upgraded to WordPress 2.7, so let me know if anything is wonky and I’ve missed it.  The new internal setup has thrown me for a bit of a loop.  I like it, but it will take some getting adjusting to as I am very much a creature of [...]

In the interest of not having to duplicate tons and tons of information everywhere I am no longer going to have a Knits In Progress or a Spinning in Progress list. I feel like this frees up some sidebar real-estate for other things if I want to put something else there. It also helps more [...]

These days, I often forget I have a blog. Can you tell? In fact…. I managed to fail to notice that I received my 500th comment recently, when I had made a mental note that it was coming up and to pay attention to it because I wanted to do something special for that person. [...]

I’ve read a posts out there in blogland about how Ravelry is the death of knitting blogs, or that people are worried about the cross-over of life in to what was their craft blog, and should it be separate or is it ok to mix them. With that in mind, I’ve decided that my blog [...]

My Photo Gallery is back up and better than ever. I have combined the photos in my original soapturtle.com gallery that was deadeded with the photos from the more recent gallery that was lost. You can click on the left sidebar link to go to a blog embedded version of the Gallery, or you can [...]

The site should now be running much faster for everyone. I’ve changed hosts from GoDaddy to BlueHost, and so far, I must say I am very damned pleased with Blue Host. They are reasonable in cost, and thus far, have provided me with everything I’ve needed to do the things I wanted to do, without [...]