Wordless Wednesday - Logos, which one?

For this Wordless Wednesday, tah dah!  Images!  But of course I am never really wordless, now am I?  

Just ran across this image that I had forgotten that I created.  I've posted it here before, I am sure. 

I had forgotten all about this image I created last fall for a Done Nesting "logo" sometime last fall.  I like the focus on all the activities once again open to me without needing to check with someone.

There are several of these logos now.  Which one do you like?  The one above?

Or this one:

 

that includes the previous one with more info such as the URL.

Or maybe this one, where the URL is missing.  I do have versions with the URL too:

 

Or something simpler?  Such as:

 A bit more retro, no?  For some reason this one reminds me of "Leave it to Beaver."

Really.  I would like to have your input. 

Pinterest, Literacy and Marketing

Are we shifting to a post lexical society?  The success of Pinterest may be a bit more evidence in support of one of my societal suspicions - that we are changing the ways we get information in what may become a limiting rather than enabling constraint for individuals and society at large.  A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a thousand words can convey far more detailed information than can an image. 

But that said, I like all the pretty pictures.  No really, it is about visual aesthetics.  But it is also about marketing.  I have had a Pinterest account for months but done nothing with it until a couple weeks ago.  So now when I am trying to figure out the new linking and presentation of information tool the marketers have found it bigtime.


Pinterest Infographic, an Infographic by Linchpin SEO

 I'm just starting to get my boards together and my descriptions thus far are not very meaty but you can check 'em out if you want at:   http://pinterest.com/donenesting/

Some Days Are, Well, Rather Sucky

Not that I'm complaining.  I still have a wonderful life.  Wonderful family.  Wonderful friends.  And a former hosting company that sucks big time.  Today did not go as planned. 

Did you ever wake up and find your self-hosted sites all disappeared along with the hosting company you have used for years?

Let me tell you, it sucks.  Big time! 

But, for me, recovery comes easier than it once did.  When things go wrong you realize what you have learned since the last time you were tested.  Yes, even finding out you will have to reload all your sites from not really up to date back-ups onto a new hosting company's servers after you find that company, set up accounts, and initiate name server transfers. 

At one time all this would have left me in a dark, absolutely no fun, pillows over my head in a dark room, funk for several days, at least, while I tried to figure out what all the steps to starting over with a new hosting company would be.  Then actually doing the steps would have taken another couple of days, or weeks.  So a few hours of work and a beer and a Cobb salad later, things are as under control as they could possibly be, and I'm just waiting for the DNS migration to happen. 

So really things are good even though the day was, well, challenging to sucky.  I now have even more shareable information about what every person who has a self-hosted website needs to know. 

Erma Bombeck Warned Us

We are all Erma Bombeck now.  I was perusing the Pinterest pins and surfed over to a site containing Erma Bombeck quotes when I realized that at least half of the bloggers I read are following in the ink stained trail of Erma's wit and wisdom.    But then I've always thought Erma was far more political and downright cagey than she was ever given credit for being. 

Some of the best quotes of hers from the page on women's history on about.com:

• When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they're not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the floor, or the music that numbs your teeth, or even the bottle of capless shampoo dribbling down the shower drain. They're upset because they've gone from supervisor of a child's life to a spectator. It's like being the vice president of the United States.

• It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding. 

• Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-rearing, they are unemployed.

But I think my favorite one is this one:

• We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attaché cases and our three-piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.

What, oh what, wisdom would Erma have for us in these days when men with severe and degenerative cases of '50s-ism? (def: mental illness in which an illogical and irrational desire to return to a non-existent time period during which June Cleaver and Donna Reed existed and roamed the Earth).   Pssst.  Wake up!  I think right now is the "worse" she was talking about! 

So what are you going to do for International Women's Day this year?  I think we should all do something.  Ideas?  Oh, International Women's Day is March 8th. 

Whine, Gripe, Moan, Second Guess

I feel like an idiot.  I host a website for a friend and she came over yesterday so we could choose a new template for a the site.  Nothing would work properly.  Grrrr.  Templates that had loaded just fine a couple of days ago were flaking out, not loading, missing sections.

I looked like a total incompetent.  I felt like every piece of technology I touched was flaking out.  So I'm taking the weekend off.  No website work. 

Mixing work and friendship never works well.  I don't host sites for other people with any regularity.  But helping a friend out is an okay thing to do.  But mainly I just host my own sites and I have started setting up domains to sell with topic specific templates and some example content pre-installed. 

I will eventually sell ebooks and graphics and get out of hosting.  I do not like to do less than a really good job.  How do so many people go through life without guilt when I feel guilty about stuff that I is not even my fault?

I guess this is all just sniveling about whether I'm tough enough to be in business for myself.  I'm two weeks in to my renewed effort at building a business and writing my books so a few minutes of self-doubt probably isn't all that bad. 

Must think positive and reread some of my recent posts.