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Summer Renewal

By BBoyd • Jul 18th, 2008 • Category: Featured, Uncategorized

Yes. I have been a bad blogger. No updates lately.
It’s summer. It’s 100+ degrees. I work at home. The kid is out of school……it’s down time. Being the daughter, granddaughter, niece, and cousin of teachers, summer has always been a time for refreshing, renewal. Taking stock, cleaning out, freshening up, and resting. Still is.
Out with [...]



Fixing what’s not broken…

By BBoyd • May 26th, 2008 • Category: Featured

Your company may not have a need for a website that is being published to on a daily basis and you maybe quite happy with your existing website design. But a website, just like a car or a home, requires a bit of maintenance, upkeep, and upgrades to stay current and most useful to you. [...]



Call4PilotCars.com

By BBoyd • Apr 21st, 2008 • Category: Featured

My latest project has been Call4PilotCars.com, a website for Asherville Pilot Car Express.
The company owners came to me looking for a site that was clean and conveyed modern professionalism with a ‘driving cross country’ feel, got the message across in seconds, and that could be maintained themselves with some training. With little content and no [...]



Watch a Live Feed of the Robotics Competition Feilds

By BBoyd • Apr 18th, 2008 • Category: Chelsea, Featured

Chelsea emailed me this link last night…
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/robotics/first/atlanta-finals-2008/
LBJ (aka The Purple Haze, aka Team 418) is on the Curie field.



LASA Robotics Team Heads to First

By BBoyd • Apr 15th, 2008 • Category: Chelsea, Featured

Everybody over 20 should envy the LASA Robotics team, who are headed to the First competition after school today. I’m not sure they realize how cool that is, or what an opportunity it is for them as individuals, or how much they will cherish the memories of such trips in the future. Without the hindsight [...]



Please… just grant me this little break…

By BBoyd • Apr 14th, 2008 • Category: Blog, Featured

Please, just kill me now. Because I am never ever going to catch up. There are some days that I think to myself :
“Self… You cannot possibly put one more thing to learn on that to do list.”
And then I catch some iffy behavior from visitors poking at wp-admin files on various installations. Mainly, those [...]



Googling Me?

By BBoyd • Apr 1st, 2008 • Category: Featured, Personal

I know better than to check my stats daily..I get sucked into all that data. But lately, I’ve not been able to keep myself from it because of all the googling of my name. It didn’t REALLY bug me until I saw a hit from a yahoo search on the term “brandi boyd dead”. Yikes. [...]



Congrats LBJ Winterguard

By BBoyd • Mar 30th, 2008 • Category: Chelsea, Featured, LBJ Winterguard

Yesterday I drove down to Houston to watch Chelsea and her winterguard perform at the 2008 Texas Color Guard Circuit Colorguard and Percussion State Championships and got a real treat. Our team placed 3rd in their section and 9th overall in their unit, and performed a show that left the audience slack-jawed. It was [...]



Talking Them Out of Thier Tinfoil Hats

By BBoyd • Mar 24th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Featured

As general web users become more tech savy, and security risks via scripting become more and more vicious, understandably more of users are becoming wary of allowing sites with JavaScripts full access to thier browser, and this is important for site owners and designers alike to consider. With the emergence of AJAX using JavaScript is [...]



In Memoriam

By BBoyd • Mar 2nd, 2008 • Category: Featured

It is hard to believe that my little sister has been dead a full ten years. It does seem just like yesterday when I kissed her goodbye in her casket and we put her to rest with her Ballie, playing the Macarena. (It actually was appropriate, no matter what you might think). It is almost [...]