I’m being a complete goofball AND completely serious here: William Shatner’s website looks like a horrible, sad mess. A HOT HOT MESS.

And I can fix it for him!

So I’m launching a campaign to get William Shatner, the awesome Captain Kirk himself, to hire me as his new web designer.

Dear Captain Kirk, your website should be MADE OF AWESOME.

If you’re so inclined, you can click here for that tweet, and retweet it. That way maybe he’ll see it and decide that yes, he does – in fact – need a WEB DESIGNER.

I have my prices up! OMG!!

I know, quit freaking out on me. Don’t worry, I still left part of it unfinished, just for you. I have my FAQ page and my Help page still to put up, but the important parts are there. Now I can bask in the glow of all the orders that will soon be pouring into my lap.

W00t!

Go ahead, check it out, and make your wish list! ;)

Yesterday, I moved myself further toward my goal of being a full-time Designer/Coder/Tech Support geek. Sure, I already do the design and coding – but I also love fiddling with computers. I’m not as good at the hardware configurating yet, but I can give your Windows machine a mighty nice tune-up.

I went up to visit my cousin Kim, because her dear hubby had FUBARed their brand-new computer because he was, in his words, “bored.”

Ha.

(Sidenote: She’s not my cousin by birth or family, but she was my cousin when I was married to my first husband; I like to tell people that when we divorced, I took her and now she’s MY cousin. Heehee.)

There’s a really good reason NOT to visit a p0rn site on your family computer, and that’s because for most people, they can’t tell the difference between a virus and a real piece of software. There were Trojans embedded into the registry so deep that they kept respawning when they were deleted.

And I FIXED IT. All they had to pay me was pizza while I was there (because it took me about ten hours to get it done), and gas money home. And coffee.

BitDefender, Spybot, and SpywareBlaster are my bestest friends. If I could, I would take them out for dinner. (And if you haven’t read my two-part series on protecting your computer like a geek, GO READ IT. And bookmark it. NOW! Part One, Part Two)

I still have a conundrum with this here blog of mine. I need a better theme (which I’ve been working on when I have time, and I have gotten good feedback from the people I’ve showed it to); I need to upgrade to the latest Wordpress version (which I tried, and broke my blog awfully – not once but TWICE); and I want to start theming my posts just a little bit more.

No, I don’t mean I’m going to have a plethora of stupid memes and lists of irrelevant crap and what I’m reading/listening to/eating right now (although it’s sometimes fun to do those, and I have, of course). I mean that I am going to begin to utilize this space to also share more of the geeky/techy knowledge that I have. I’m thinking of doing a weekly geekout review, on web apps and free software that I’ve tried, and whether or not I liked it and WHY. I read Lifehacker religiously, and I almost always try the stuff they recommend. I thought it might be super useful if more people than just their gigantic crowd of commenters said something about the software itself and whether or not it was all it was cracked up to be.

I’ve tried plenty of stuff that was either ugly, non-useful, or a RAM-hog, to name a few things. So I figured, with my signature brand of sarcasm and ironic hilarity, this might be a fun and helpful feature to bring here. I am also working on beefing up my blog with REAL content, not just the silly kind that (albeit fun) is not at all relevant for my readers, you dear sweet people you, unless you actually wanted to know what I ate for breakfast. And I suspect you do NOT.

I’d love to do video posts too, except that when I turn on my webcam, nothing but idiotic-ness comes out, and I mostly grin like an idiot and check my hair with the handy mirror image of myself. Do any of you have tips for creating a good quality video blog?

My freelancing gig(s) are working out very well. I am enjoying my new schedule, and am making an effort to spend time away from my computer when I am supposed to be taking a break. It’s amazing how easy it is to glue myself to my monitors (I’m dual screening it now, and I LOVE IT) and forget to get up and do anything but go the bathroom or to the kitchen to refill my coffee mug. I am really happy to be at a point in my life where I can handle this type of scheduling, and be much better at monitoring my time. I feel more productive, anyway.

Expect me to post more often, since I am actually putting it on my to do list now. :)

OMG I FIXED IT! (just wait, something else will break.)
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Okay, d00ds, don’t worry – I’m just playing with Wordpress. Or maybe we’re fighting, I haven’t figured it out yet, but I was trying to upgrade and then everything broke, so I sort of put it back together but not really, and today I am trying to fix it. Back to how it was, anyway.

It reminds me of this cartoon:

So, you know, if the sharks don’t eat me I’ll have it back… soon. Ish.