The Dude got a PC copy of Blood Bowl for his birthday. Blood Bowl is like American Football if it was played by orcs, dwarves and elves with no morals and spikes all over their armour; it originally used wargaming miniatures but now they’ve brought out a computer game version. We’ve been playing quite a…
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Catherine’s toolbox: how to record video and audio
Hello dearests! Again, we’re digging through the toolbox of Stuff I Use. I’ve been asked a few times about video and audio lately, so I thought I’d show you those by… well, showing you! This first part is about the tools and software I use to record video and audio. Next time I’ll go through…
When faith gets real
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. C. S. Lewis Smart man. photo credit: David Purser I wrote a few days ago about how I was giving myself permission to ease back on the throttle as needed in order to get through the last…
201st post. Yikes!
That’s right, chickens… this is the 201st post for Be Awesome Online. photo credit: droskeet So many changes in these posts, so many comments (2600!), so many new connections, so much learned. There will be a big bunch of awesome improvements coming to the website soon as it transitions from Delightful Hobby to Full-Time Delightful…
Listening to your gut
Hello everyone! It’s Wednesday on this side of the world, and I have decided I want to play around with Guest Post Wednesday, featuring a new and wonderful reader every week. Today, it’s time for words of wisdom from Mike! photo credit: oksidor Hi, I’m Troy McClure Mike Reeves-McMillan. You may remember me from such…
When not to push, and the benefit of meaningful habits
Oh dearests, it’s less than two weeks of the Day Job and my brain is melllllting, melllllting… The combination of winter and website and work (wepwesented by the Wicked Witch, for obvious weasons) is kicking my ass. I am in the state of deep resource shortage where my sentences trail off and and I write…
Catherine’s toolbox: Remembering stuff for me
It’s been fun talking about the tools and systems I use to run the website. This is one of my most powerfulestest. (That is TOO a word!) It’s also my sanity preserver. photo credit: Cowpunk.1 One big-ass accessible spreadsheet and why it rocks Gmail added an extra feature months ago called Google Docs. It’s a…
Catherine’s toolbox: Email management
I do Bad Things with my email: I leave it running most of the time and check it a squillion times a day. One day I will have to stop doing that, but for now it’s working pretty well. Here’s the good stuff I do to avoid drowning in email. photo credit: yoppy How I…
How I plan my awesome digital empire
Hello dearests! It’s time for another guest post, this one from the delightful Mars Dorian! photo credit: laura padgett When I started my blog, I had ambitious goals. No, delete that. I had delusional goals: I wanted to build an uber-famous blog with a raving fan base in less than 3 months. Well, I don’t…
Connections, always connections.
I finished the last of the Awesome Fear-Wrangling interviews yesterday (I’ll be editing and uploading it today or tomorrow, dearests. I’ll let you know when it’s done.) and there is one theme that I have to tell you about. All of the fourteen rockstars I interviewed about their best fear-wrangling strategies had a long list…