Stephanie's Cheese Sandwich Blog

Test de photo très très jolie

Stephanie Booth — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:51:23 +0000

Texte au-dessus de la photo.

: C’est le logo du nouveau jouet pour geeks Google Wave.

On peut écrire sous la photo, de longs paragraphes ou bien juste quelques mots.

La liste:

élément un
élément deux
élément trois

Voilà, c’était une super liste!

Je vais faire un lien vers le site Fleur de Pains comme exemple.

Light Blogging is Now on Digital Crumble (Tumblr)

Stephanie Booth — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:19:55 +0000

You know, I haven’t been posting much here. My main blogging is still at Climb to the Stars, but the light stuff has migrated to both my Twitter account and Digital Crumble, my tumblelog on Tumblr.

A tumblelog is a blog, but it’s very basic. I use it to copy interesting stuff I find online and on other Tumblr tumblelogs, and publish the kind of stuff I used to publish here on the Cheese Sandwich Weblog.

So, see you on Digital Crumble from now on!

New WordPress Dashboard

Stephanie Booth — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:34:14 +0000

So, here we are. I’ve known for some time (as I was proofreading a book in French on WordPress) that drastic changes were lying ahead for the WordPress admin screens. Today on WordPress.com, we’re discovering them — and I’m typing my first post in the new interface.

I’ll wait a few days to decide if I like it or not. Change is always disruptive, so the first reaction of resistance or reject should not be taken seriously. Already, I see things I like, from a functional point of view.

Formatting

Stephanie Booth — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:24:24 +0000

You can put things in bold. You can also have the in italics.

The spacing between paragraphs is big. That is because we’re reading on a screen.

One important layout tool to use is lists:

first thing
second thing
third

And, of course, links.

Link to Stephanie Booth‘s website.

The future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed.

– William Gibson

Yay! Giving a Blogging Workshop in Lausanne

Stephanie Booth — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:18:05 +0000

Actually, it’s not Lausanne, it’s Lutry. Here we are, me and seven other ladies, typing away on laptops to write a first post (well, not quite the first for me).

I’m really happy to be giving this workshop, and hope I’ll be giving more (in English and French) in the coming months!

Server Back, Fingers Crossed

Stephanie Booth — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:53:35 +0000

Against expectations, my server is back up! A little DNS mess-up may give you a “Database connection error” when going to CTTS for a few more hours, but it’s already available from certain parts of the web.

Server Really Down

Stephanie Booth — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:59:54 +0000

The server hosting climbtothestars.org, stephanie-booth.com, and going-solo.net is down. I’m trying to redirect those domains to http://2008.spirolattic.net for the moment, but it’s not there yet. Seems I still have a Dreamhost account!

At SHiFT, in Lisbon, Server Down

Stephanie Booth — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:22:29 +0000

I’m in Lisbon for the SHiFT conference. All is fine, aside from the fact that my server is down. I’ll be speaking on Friday afternoon. If my server doesn’t come back up, I’ll post here.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Better a Year Late Than Never

Stephanie Booth — Sat, 03 May 2008 20:53:52 +0000

I finally responded to a year-old e-mail. I still haven’t completely registered for my pension plan as an independant worker (procedure started in November 2006!)

Hopefully I’m only in deep trouble, and not in very deep trouble.

Mon super titre d’article

Stephanie Booth — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:15:41 +0000

J’écris ici car je ne peux pas parler parce que je n’ai pas trois mains!

Scattered on Hard Drives

Stephanie Booth — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:38:22 +0000

I have a bunch of external hard drives now, and I’m trying to figure out how to organise all my data on them. Here’s what I have:

100Gb on the computer
120Gb
250Gb (big, not transportable, really)
250Gb
320Gb
1Tb

I have an iTunes library that is approx 20Gb, my Pictures directory is around 40Gb though I have moved quite a few photos off to an external drive already, Movies is 15Gb though I thought it was empty (also moved stuff off). I have TV Series (shhh) too. I have many Gb of source video I’ve taken (India is 56Gb, and then I’ve shot a few conferences).

I recently had to move my iTunes library off the computer. This is kind of silly, though, because if there’s one thing one wants on the computer, it’s music (so that when I sync my iPod it doesn’t decide to blank it).

So, here’s what I’m thinking. Keep the 120Gb drive for a “computer” backup that I can carry around with me. Keep a “computer” backup image on the 1Tb drive too.

Use the 320Gb to store photos and video, with a backup on the 1Tb.

Use the static 250Gb to store source video material I’m not working on or am done with (archive) — with a backup on the 1Tb.

Use the 250Gb (mobile) for stuff I want to watch or video I’m working on.

Thoughts?

Time Flying By

Stephanie Booth — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:36:02 +0000

I’ve always (as far as I can remember) had the feeling that time went by too fast — except maybe during some long, unending summer holidays when I was a kid or young teenager. I’ve been thinking about that recently. What makes time seem to go by “too fast” is simply that I’m frustrated that I have accomplished what I thought I would in a given timeframe.

What makes it so difficult to evaluate what can be done in a day? How can I change my way of projecting myself in the future to be more realistic, or even better, pessimistic? Gosh, imagine if the story in my head went like this: “Wow, this was supposed to take all day, and I did it in 3 hours! I have lots of free time to do other stuff in, or relax!”

But that never happens. What happens is: “OK, I’ll be reasonable, and plan to write this blog post and send this e-mail today, even though I feel I should be able to do more in a day.” And at the end of the day, I’ve maybe written the blog post, but I haven’t sent the e-mail — or vice-versa — leaving me with a feeling of failure rather than accomplishment.

Just to make things clear: I’m not concerned about the “project management” aspect of evaluating how much time things take. I know that most of the time, we just can’t evaluate that correctly. What interests me is why we (or at least I) systematically over-evaluate what can be done in a day.

Not Fooling Myself

Stephanie Booth — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:42:27 +0000

Some random stuff I’ve understood about the way I function, over the years, and things I need to pay attention to so that I don’t slide down slippery jungle paths.

For some reason, I seem to have this strange belief that if there’s something I need to do that I don’t quite feel like doing, it’ll go away if I ignore it — or I’ll magically feel like doing it later on. Things like doing the washing-up, taxes, but also cooking food, etc. I keep having to remind myself that no, I won’t feel like doing the washing up any more than right now if I go back to what I was doing and wait. One mechanism of procrastination debugged (well, it still pops up, but it’s a known bug).

A lot of my hardships in life come from a tendency to treat everything as a matter of life and death. Sometimes, simply remembering to treat a difficult situation as an “experiment”, to “see what happens” (rather than “succeed at all costs”), is enough to help me wind down and screw my head back on (not literally, but you see what I mean). A slightly more specific version of “take three steps back”, I guess.

Oh, and Don’t Forget

Stephanie Booth — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:08:06 +0000

…to register for Going Solo before March 16th. Because the prices go up, after that.

Here We Go!

Stephanie Booth — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:07:07 +0000

I’m all packed, I have a little less than five hours of sleep left before the alarm rings, and I’ve (gasp!) had dinner.

I’m off to Ireland, Texas, and California for a near-to-four-week trip. My favourite catsitter will be taking care of Bagha during my absence.

I’ll have access to the internet during my travels, of course, but as I’ll be mighty busy with conferences and the like, you can expect me to be even less responsive than usual. Yes, it’s possible.