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R- Renaissance

“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” – Leonardo If you look at the definition of Renaissance, it refers to a particular time in the Middle Ages (14th-16th Centuries) where there was a rebirth in Art, Science and intellectual pursuits. Personally, I like the definition that focuses on rebirth and revival. I consider myself to be a Renaissance Woman.
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E – Encyclopedias and Education

I am a voracious reader. And I have been since I was a child. It was a method to explore places I could never go and dream a little. When I was seven or eight, my grandfather gave us the yearbooks from the World Book Encyclopedias that he had bought when my Mom and Uncle were kids. I spent hours pulling the yearbooks off the
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This is a day that needs to be celebrated.

And for celebrations like this we need a dancing banana! New Camera Day!!! WEEEE HAAAAA!

Wired/Wirelessly I Go

Well I finally bit the bullet and got High Speed Internet service from Verizon. The week has been a little frustrating in that there was bit of a snafu with when exactly the technician was going to be here for processing the service. Since Verizon never gave me a firm date, I wasn’t able to be home to let the
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The Nerdy Girl's Summer Reading List

With my job as a senior business analyst – which is really a lump-all category for technical communicator, process analyst and sharepoint administrator for my department’s site collection – I’m heading back into the world of Information Architecture. So here’s the technical reading list for the summer: Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become by Peter Morville Information
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Do You Tweet?

Martha tweets and as of a couple weeks ago, Oprah tweets too. Do you tweet?  I do. If you don’t know what a tweet is by now, it’s a message sent via the social network twitter.com. Along with the word tweep (a person who tweets) its one of the words entering the vocabulary of the hip and happening folks who
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Making the Theme a Little More Me

The theme on this site is currently a modified version of the Spring Blossom theme put together by agodlymaiden. I like agodlymaiden’s design, but since it didn’t reflect me and my life, I did a little tweaking. The first step was to find one of my own images that I wanted to use in place of the one agodlymaiden had
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