Thumbs up for a Pioneer Woman

I tend to spend most of my blogtime reading work-related blogs. In fact, if I hadn’t stumbled across Confessions of a Pioneer Woman because I marked Cooking as a topic in StumbleUpon, I would never have run across this woman’s personal blog. But I sure am glad I did.

First of all, as you all know, I’m a terrible cook. So, I’m always on the lookout for sites that help me deal with that problem. When a recipe for a steak sandwich showed up after I clicked the Stumble button, and there were pictures for every single step of the process…I mean every one…I was elated. I soon discovered that she is a master of photographing the steps involved in cooking whatever dish she is… Continue reading

Sites I Have Stumbled Upon Recently

I’ve started keeping a list of sites that I’ve stumbled upon lately that intrigued me for one reason or another, and I thought I’d share some of them from time to time. Here’s the first batch:

Approximate Conversion from Points to Pixels

Create any size wall posters from any size images

Guerrilla Mail - disposable e-mail addresses which expire after 15 minutes

PortableApps - carry your favorite computer programs along with all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more with you.

Open source Windows programs

That’s it for now. More to come as I stumble upon more interesting stuff. I love stumbling, btw… Continue reading