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In prep for my trip to out to San Francisco for Blogher next week, I went through and coordinated my whole … online catalog of STUFF.

I came home last night determined to redesign my main (”business card”) site, and after a few annoying snags with my new Dreamweaver, I finally got a new design up this morning. Check it out.

JennyFrazier.com

Right away you (should) notice that it coordinates with this blog design. If you click around the links, you’ll notice they should all coordinate too. (READ: Someone has a little too much time on her hands.)

But enough about me, read this and laugh. (I am guilty of so many of those.)

In the same week that I had to buy a brand new computer I probably shouldn’t be perusing the web for a new camera.

BUT. Nikon D700? (That’s D. SEVEN HUNDRED.) Hello. You are a beast. And I want you in my life. (Even if I still have a crush on your cousin D3.)

Recently I had a guy tell me that he knew more about me than I think … when really all he did was successfully type my name into Google.

Yesterday Hooker told me about a troubled ex-coworker who recently tracked him down via his art portfolio. (Who said site optimization is always a good thing? Ha.)

Earlier in the week, someone I haven’t talked to practically since high school contacted me through Facebook to retell a funny story from our past.

Two weeks ago at an awards dinner I recognized an award recipient as one of my Twitter contacts.

On more than one occasion, I’ve gone out for a lunch break and returned back to my desk to an email that says “Oh hi. I just saw you in Downtown Crossing.” (PS, if you do see me out and about, it is FAR less creepy to actually come up to me and introduce yourself then for me to get THAT email 20 minutes later).

Having your life online and being able to track down (or be tracked down) has it’s ups and downs.

One of the best things that’s been a direct result of my “life online”:
Developing an entirely new network of friends and colleagues. I think pulling together Blogtoberfest really kicked this off for me. I never knew I’d get such a great group of friends out of it. (And even better? Though it all started in Boston for me, now I have friends all over the country entirely due to blogging - even stayed with a couple.)

One of the creepiest things that’s been a direct result of my “life online”:
Last week a guy asked me out on a date by listing a number of great things we could do (which, thanks to the help of one Miss Sarah, I quickly discovered was actually my list of “likes” on Myspace. Not inspired by, not ideas borrowed from … he read the god damn list off one by one. Eeesh.)

Your turn: best and worst parts of your life online.

You remember all the posed pictures you coordinated, but the real gems are the candid photos you rediscover sprinkled all over your memory card.

Congrats S & J! I’ve gone through all the photos — now let the editing process begin. HA.

I want to find a way to do larger photographs in single entries on Wordpress. I’m sick of being confined to portrait-oriented photographs for my Daily Photo category - they’re so limiting. I want to be able to post landscape photos sized to fit in that div for my main loop and category archives page (and not mess up my sidebars), but when you click on the single entry you see a much larger version of that photograph that spans the entire container and moves the sidebar down below it.

Am I typing this in a way that makes sense? I’ve seen it done on Wordpress themes, have tried to google it and search the forums with no luck, and the people who have figured it out aren’t giving up the info other than to say they’ve used a hack and it exists….. Grrr.

Anyone?