Enabling SSL on Blogger with You Are Not Authorized Error

Everyone knows that SSL encryption has been required of all browsers since 2017. If you don't have it nowadays, you get the dreaded Not Secure warning next to the URL. 

But what if you have a blog hosted on Blogger with a custom domain name? Back then, it was costly to purchase SSL and even trickier to implement (which I've done for my work company). In 2019, Google started to provide free SSL for Blogger blogs. When I got around to implementing it, I got the dreaded "You are not authorized to use this domain" error. Clearly the custom domain name works and I own it, why the error?

After much searching, I found that I set up this blog custom domain many eons ago (10+ years) and Google as since changed the DNS configuration for Blogger custom domains. The only way I got this to work was to first remove the custom domain from Blogger and then reimplement it with the new CNAME. So from the beginning...

1. Log into your domain provider. I use GoDaddy, so screen shots will be shown from there.
2. Go to your Blogger menu and click Settings on the left.
3. Scroll down to Publishing and click on Custom Domain.
4. Click Delete (I know this is scary, it's just temporary...)
   
   
   
   
5. Now add the domain name back to the custom domain. This time, you will see an error with some small print saying how to set up the DNS configuration with your domain provider. Copy the CNAME information down in Notepad. This info is unique to your blog.
6. Go back to your domain provider and navigate to the DNS settings for your website. In GoDaddy, it's Manage DNS under the 3 dots.
   
   
   
7. If you already have the custom domain, you should already have the CNAME entry for www to ghs.google.com. Click Add at the bottom and add the CNAME with all the cryptic characters. It should look something like this when you're done.
   
   
   
8. Go back to Blogger and add the Custom Domain name again. It should work this time.
9. Now scroll down to HTTP section and enable HTTPS availability.
   
   
   
10. The status will change to Available shortly. Try to access your site with the https:// prefix. It will take 15 minutes to an hour to become effective. Be patient!
11. After you can access your site over https://, then you can enable the HTTP redirect.
    
12. Enjoy your free SSL!

Let’s All Groupon!

I’ve heard a lot about Groupon lately, and if you know me, I love a getting a deal.  So I signed up for emails in the Boston and Worcester area, and was duly unimpressed.  The daily emails were clogging up my inbox and were rarely anything I was interested in.  The restaurants and spas featured were often too far away (now if they had a Nashua, NH location, that would be a different story).  I switched to receiving the deals through my RSS reader instead of email and purchased a few Groupons but still wasn’t bowled over.  Until yesterday.



OMG!! $99 for 30-Minute Rental of Lamborghini Gallardo and 30-Minute Rental of Ferrari Modena 360 at Steam Sport Technologies in Danvers ($274.75 Value). Driving two supercars for 60 minutes??  I went and bought one for Doug’s birthday.  And one for myself.


This Groupon actually tipped first on Worcester and then Boston today, so if you love Ferraris like I do, there’s still time today to purchase it.  Of course, if you not a car fanatic, there are plenty of reasonable deals for fun places and stores like Chunky’s Cinema Pub (sold out) or Marbles: The Brain Store (expired).

I should have known that driving the Ferrari Modena 360 was in the cards for me since I was pegged as one in this quiz that I posted three years ago.

I'm a Ferrari 360 Modena!

You've got it all. Power, passion, precision, and style. You're sensuous, exotic, and temperamental. Sure, you're expensive and high-maintenance, but you're worth it. Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.

Wow, this quiz has got me pegged!  It also reminds me of a facebook quiz that I took years ago where I was typed as a Bugatti Veyron.  Always the fastest, most expensive cars (this one tops the list at $1.7M), seems to be a pattern here.  (This also reminds me that it is impossible to search for old wall posts, one of my biggest issues with facebook).

If you haven’t joined Groupon, click on over with my referral.  Disclaimer:  if you do join and purchase a Groupon, I got a whooping $10.  Woo hoo!!  Gotta afford my car habit somehow.

Touched by the Bloggess

During BlogHer '10 Voices of the Year Art Exhibit and Art Auction curated by kirtsy, I patiently waited in line to be blessed by the performance art of Jenny the Bloggess.  She breathed in my aura, looked at the words "i am music" on my arm and typed this out on her vintage pink typewriter.



"You are a rhapsody that hasnt been finished.  Unfortunely you cant sell unfinished rhapsodies.  Also? I cant spell."

It was great fun and I was glad to see Jenny in good spirits and not too spooked by all the people swarming around her. 



It is the last week to bid on the art auction benefitting gulf coast restoration. From September 10-20, items from the geek/nerdy art collection are up for bidding. Check out the auction directly on eBay.

$100 BlogHer Question of the Day - Would You Swap Places with Your Partner?

I'm honored to be the $100 BlogHer Question of the Day. If you haven't checked it out yet, just hop over the BlogHer, answer the question (there's a new one every day), you'll be entered to win $100 in cool cash.

My question was, "Have you ever thought about how your life would be if you swapped places with your spouse or significant other?"

The answers are quite interesting so far. I would say that 95% of people say "No way!" and there is a small segment that would love to swap places or try for a day.  Some responses hinge upon roles and responsibilities and some hinge on gender.  Here are some great responses that made me laugh out loud.

Hubby and I actually work together doing the same job, so switching there wouldn't be so hard. However, he has to put up with ME and I could never tolerate that.

...see what it is like to live like a man with all that testosterone.

And this response was so touching.

My final partner I met late in life and he was the soul mate I waited so long for, he was an award winning writer and I would not have traded places with him because I loved being his partner and being awed by his intellect, his compassion for others, his empathy with the world's underprivaleged which stemmed from his own poor childhood from which he worked himself up to a DLitt. He died suddenly and way to soon but I am so happy to have had him for the 4 years we were together and would wish every woman could have had such an experience.

I'm so glad this question brought out this response.  What a beautiful relationship.

Here's my response.  I would definitely like to swap temporarily for a week or a month.  In the small crowd of yes comments, many of them had stay-at-home husbands which is the situation we fall into.  I've never had the chance to be with my kids full time outside of maternity leave.  I'm sure the situation would fall apart quickly because I'm way too much of a control freak.  But I love the thought of planning fun-filled summer days with them and six hours of quiet to myself while they are in school.  My hubby is currently looking to get back to work, but it would have to be his kind of work and not mine.  He would be flummoxed with my software code!  When I wrote the question, I was mainly thinking about roles and responsibilities.  But after reading the comments about gender, I definitely would want to try swapping so I could be male.  I have had dreams that I've been a male and it was very interesting... (don't get me wrong, these dreams have been very rare!).

For your chance to win, head over the BlogHer to answer the question of the day.

Live to Chat, Chat to Live

Adam with his mop top.

The first time I chatted with someone on a computer was over Unix talk in the mid 1980's.  It was really cool, but invariably with someone within close proximity (think huge terminal lab at MIT), so it was more of a novelty than anything.  It wasn't until the late 1990's when a co-op student showed me AOL Instant Messenger at work.  He used it to chat with his friends from school.  Soon, most of my friends and I were on it as well (I was the pioneer pushing it onto many skeptics).  A technological communications door that I always had imagined had just been opened.  Not as disruptive as a phone call and not as slow as email.

Instant messaging was used so prevalently at my last job, it was perfect for tele-commuting because people didn't know whether they were chatting with someone in the next cube or at home.  When I started at my current job, IM simply wasn't allowed.  I did it on the sly with my old friends but slowly, all the ports for AIM and MSN Messenger were closed down.  The only thing left is Skype now.  There is corporate IM for work, which is helpful, but not used to the degree that I had in my previous job.

When Adam was born, I couldn't wait until he was old enough to use the computer so I could chat him from work.  Maybe by age 6, I thought.  But as he got older, I became more and more wary of subjecting him to the good and evils of the internet.  I have yet to give him an email address to spare him the pain of spam. He does not need to know about penis enhancements and Nigeria!  Besides, he needs to learn how to talk properly with his friends on the phone first.  But on the computer, he has fallen into the world of online video games which he plays with his friends, real and virtual.

Yesterday, for the first time at age 9 1/2, I installed Skype on his computer and we finally had our long awaited chat.  I enjoyed it immensely. (Screenshot edited slightly for clarity and privacy.)



I was impressed by his nearly perfect spelling and punctuation.  I broke him in with my casual IM way.  Since I always refer to him with the (emo) emoticon to Doug, I had to share it with Adam.

Me:  this is you

Adam (later):  you are

He is still the sweetest boy ever, even on chat. Does my heart good.

Take Those Naked Photographs Before It's Too Late

One of my favorite corner's of the internet is PostSecret. "PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard."  PostSecret, is intimate, anonymous, and voyeuristic.  Many secrets are sad, some are funny, and there are always one or two that hit right home.  I've always imagined creating a PostSecret and mailing it in.  But I've never been able to decide upon a secret that I was willing to part with.  Besides, most of my secrets have already been posted in one form or another. 

Back in January, I happened upon a PostSecret that was simply a text email, and not even a postcard.  It said, "I wish I had taken a naked picture of my husband, back in the day when he was a hard body and looked like Bob Seger. He is gone now and I miss him."  For some reason this has really stuck with me.

So on our annual trip to Newport this year, I made a point to take some nude pictures of Doug and myself.  Regardless of how my mommy body looks.  Doug has one of those (extremely annoying) metabolisms that has left him at the same weight for 30 years.  So his photos came out fantastic.  Mine?  I can barely look at them.  But no matter what, these will probably be better than any photos we take in the future.  The moment is now!

And you can't beat these knowing smiles (fuzzy because it is cropped way down - the rest is not for public consumption!).



For more on naked families, check out my BlogHer post.


Hosted by Cecilyand Debi

WW - Have Skype Will Travel

I'm off on another business trip again, but never too far out of touch thanks to Skype. Here are some screen shots I've got over the years.


"Hey Dova, what's that on your cheek?"


"Dolphin face painting, cool!"


Giving Dova a good night kiss. She still looked like a baby a few years ago!


This shot was from my trip last month.

Afterward, they left Skype on while they ate. I could see them sitting at the counter through the reflection in the window. I could also dictate from the computer that they had to eat their vegetables. Next time, I'll have to ask Doug to pop the laptop on the counter so I can really eat dinner with them virtually.

Visit by Wordless Wednesday or 5 Minutes for Mom or 7 Clown Circus (wordful) for more participants.

Etsy Love - Straps by Leslie

As part of Merry Christmas / Happy Birthday to me, I bought my first item from Etsy, a camera strap from Straps by Leslie.  I love Canon, but not so much that I need to be a walking billboard for them with their standard strap.  So I found this pattern that is totally Angela.





I love it! It even has enough room to hang my remote control. At Adam's basketball practice one Saturday morning, I convo'd Leslie (Etsy talk for message) about a custom fabric and length configuration and ordered it right from my iPhone. I got it on Tuesday!  Now that's service. Check out Straps by Leslie on Etsy for all her great straps.

Fun at Hands On Small Business!

Microsoft Cambridge graciously lent their space for a couple of the Hands On Small Business sessions in Boston.  I always thought that working for Google would be cool, but Microsoft?  It would probably be a bit stiff (think PC vs. Mac).  But when I stepped into their beautiful space, I thought wrong!

Microsoft Cambridge is nestled on the corner of the Longfellow bridge in Cambridge had magnificent views of Boston and MIT.



Check out the two floor atrium from above. See that huge screen and projector hanging from the ceiling? That's what I used for teaching the Hands On Small Business session.



If you wanted, you could have a seat on this huge Pause button.  Cool!



But the HOSB participants were a civilized bunch who enjoyed the session from regular chairs.



Afterwards, we checked out the Microsoft Surface Table. Every home needs one!



At each session, I met great sets of small business owners looking for the social media edge. Meet Susan Callahan, baker extraordinaire of Goodies Homemade. I can personally attest to her goodies as Doug received a batch of her unbelievable Chocolate Chip Reese's Cup cookies. They were divine! Here she talks about her experience at Hands On Small Business.


Hands On Small Business Interview from Angela T on Vimeo.

If you'd like to catch an extra session of Hands On Small Business Boston with the lovely Christine Koh of Boston Mamas and myself on December 1st from 1-3 pm at Good Food Cafe, register here. Due to popular demand, there were sessions added in several cities, so check the website for the city near you.

Dropbox Fever!

Last year, I posted about the great tool, Syncplicity. It allowed me to sync files on multiple computers as well as store them in the cloud. Since it came out of beta however, they changed the terms of the free account to only allow synchronization between two computers.  As a bonafide geek, I regularly use three computers, so I had to change my workflow a bit to only use two computers regularly (i.e. take my work laptop on personal trips instead of my home laptop).



Then I heard about Dropbox.  The free account has the same storage capacity as Syncplicity (2GB), but it does not have the two computer restriction.  In fact it also has an iPhone application, so you can view your files on your iPhone!  When I heard that, I was all over it.

There are a few gotchas that I had to overcome with Dropbox.  With Syncplicity, you can choose any folders to synchronize.  Dropbox requires that everything be in a specified Dropbox folder.  That presented a problem with Windows Live Writer.  I use Live Writer to hold most of my blog drafts so that I can work on them offline, especially while travelling.  But Microsoft only allows you to save drafts in its own “My Weblog Posts” folder under “My Documents”.  I abhor “My Documents” and anything that has the word ‘My’ in it (although I use it on occasion in programming, maybe the Microsoft way has rubbed off on me).  So the default location for my blog drafts could not be synced with Dropbox.

After some Googling, I found a workaround for the Windows Live Writer problem.  Thanks to Scott Is a Fool (author of the helpful Insert Amazon Link Windows Live Writer plug-in), he outlines how to redirect the “My Weblog Posts” folder to another location in both Windows Vista and Windows XP.  I followed the directions exactly on both operating systems, and redirected “My Weblog Posts” to a folder under my Dropbox folder.

Dropbox has been working flawlessly for me.  I have not had any issues with syncing or server outtages (unlike Syncplicity).  If you’d like to try Dropbox, use this referral link or click on the present below.  You will get an extra 256 MB of storage and also increase my storage by 256 MB.  Thanks!

Social Media for Small Business - What's It All About?

If you're interested in starting a small business or have already started one and want to leverage the power of social media, you should to check out the free Hands On Small Business (#HOSB) sessions in October in November. If the idea of starting a website or that Twitter hashtag (#HOSB) leaves you scratching your head, fear no more, all will be explained!

Kirtsy and Microsoft Office Live are holding 100 FREE sessions in 20 cities about online and social media solutions that help entrepreneurs and small businesses. Christine Koh of Boston Mamas and yours truly will be teaching five sessions in the Boston area. We are excited to be part of this fun, hands on initiative!

Here are the Boston dates, locations and registration page:

Thursday, October 8th, 10:00am-12:00pm
Good Food Cafe
2378 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA 02140

Saturday, October 17th, 2:00pm-4:00pm
Microsoft New England R&D Center
One Memorial Drive Cambridge, MA 02142

Tuesday, October 20, 7:00pm-9:00pm
Microsoft New England R&D Center
One Memorial Drive Cambridge, MA 02142

Thursday, November 5th, 7:00pm-9:00pm
Shift Communications
20 Guest Street, Suite 200 Brighton, MA 02135

Monday, November 9th, 1:00pm-3:00pm
Good Food Cafe
2378 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA 02140

Christine and I will be at the first session together, and you can also see me on Saturday, October 17th and Monday, November 9th. Hope to see you there!

If you're outside the Boston area, check out all the cities that these sessions are offered and register here http://www.handsonsmallbusiness.com/

Atlanta, GA
Austin, TX
Boston, MA
Charlotte, NC
Chicago, IL
Columbus, OH
Dallas, TX
Denver, CO
Houston, TX
Little Rock, AR
Los Angeles / Orange County, CA
Miami, FL
New York, NY
Oklahoma City, OK
Portland, OR
Salt Lake City, UT
San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA
Toronto, ON
Washington, DC

Are You Part of the Digital Nation?

Last year, a friend of mine sent me a link, saying "You guys should check out this episode of Frontline." It was a link to an episode titled Growing Up Online about how technology and the internet has radically changed the way kids learn, interact and live.  But me, watch an entire hour of video online?  I'm the YouTube generation, 3 minutes tops please.  He asked me a few more times if I watched it, saying that I really should for my kids' sake.  No time, too busy.

Earlier this month, Erin of the Manic Mommies sent me an invitation to attend a Frontline discussion of their Digital Nation project at WGBH.  Sure, that sounded cool.  A few days before the event, I thought about the link that my friend gave me and wondered if it had anything to do with this project.  After digging around a bit, I found that Growing Up Online was actually the precursor to Digital Nation, so I finally set aside a lunchtime to watch it.

When I finally watched Growing Up Online, it simply blew my mind.  It showed classrooms completely run through laptops.  Students submitted papers online so that teachers could easily run it through a plagiarism checker.  It showed a girl who had a secret "adult" identity on MySpace with a huge following.  She was completely crushed when she had to take everything down after her parents found out.  And then it showed a chilling story about a boy who committed suicide because of cyber-bullying.  This story really touched me because this boy was a beautiful, sensitive kid, so much like my own son.  If it could happen to him, it could happen to my child.

At the WGBH event, we watched a video clip about how the Digital Nation project came to be with producer and director, Rachel Dretzin:


(If you don't see the video, go there and click "Inside Digital Nation")

I actually watched this video clip prior to the event because I couldn't stop checking out all the cool clips at their site. Another thing that they invited us to do was to create our own video content to add to the conversation. The Digital Nation episode is an interactive work in progress and is scheduled to air in Winter 2010.  One thought that I came away with was succinctly tweeted by @KristenSB during the event, "#dig_nat we are the last generation who remembers a non-digital world. What of that past do we want to pass along to our children?"

Attending this event reminded me of how we need to carefully navigate the technological waters with our kids. Adam (age 8) loves all things gadget; he easily beats me at Nintendo DS and Wii games and he can spend hours on the computer. We haven't limited his "screen time" as long as he does all his other activities, including homework, reading, practicing piano, chores and soccer practices (and running around outside when we tell him to). This is probably blasphemy in other parent's books, but I know that computers will be a big part of his life, as it is a huge part of mine. I sometimes think that it is so cool that I sit in front of a computer creating software applications for a living.

The other night, I brought some work home and proceeded to edit a dialog.  Adam hopped into bed with me to watch.  I explained the behavior that I wanted to achieve.  When I press this button, I want it to stay down, become bold and disabled, while an adjacent button would come up enabled and have focus.  I added a few lines of code at a time, compiled and tested it.  For every change, he understood exactly what was going to happen.  I showed him that once I did one button, I could copy and paste the code to the other button and just change a few characters (software development is 95% detailed copy and paste skills).

It made complete sense to him and he said, "That's not so hard!"

"Oh no, don't tell my boss that it's so easy."

The next night I had my laptop in bed again, and he said, "Oh goody, work!"

"No way Mister, I'm blogging tonight!"  You gotta draw the line on such fun.

I remember thinking when Adam was a baby, that it would be so cool when he got old enough to type so then I could instant message him from work.  Now I'm thinking, how long can I hold off before he needs to IM his friends?  At this point, we restrict his internet access by using the free Kidzui browser, which limits browsing to parent-approved sites.  He spends his time playing silly games, as well as Webkinz and Club Penguin.  He's made virtual friends and we've had the "talk" about what is appropriate to chat with others.  Before long, he will be just like one of the kids featured in Growing Up Online.  At least I won't have to join facebook in order to friend him, as I will always be one step ahead on the Internet (I hope).

It was also great to catch up with other bloggers at the event, Christine Koh (Boston Mamas), Christy (More Than Mommy), and Kristin (Manic Mommies). I also finally met "Media Maven" C.C. Chapman (Accident Hash and the new Digital Dads), who took an awesome photo of me, and Laura Tomasetti (360 Days in a PR Life).  And a quick hello to Mommy Niri who I will get to chat with more at the BlogHer Boston-area get together on June 13.

I am one more reason to be extremely terrified of Chinese people

Is it Google or is it Dr. Seuss who is extremely terrified of Chinese people? I captured this screenshot during Theodor Seuss Geisel's birthday on Monday in the midst of a flu fever. Try typing "I am extremely " into a Google search page if you haven't already. And let me be reason number 303,333 to be extremely terrified.  BWAHAHAHAHA!

Happy New Year 2009!

Image by alexpenev in Sydney Australia, one of the first places in the world to celebrate the new year.

Gravatar - No Longer X-rated!

I signed up for a Gravatar ages ago but lately I haven't been seeing my flower on comments.  I finally figured out that my gravatar was rated X, so it wouldn't appear where only G-rated gravatars were allowed!  After checking the FAQs, I learned that you can change the rating of your gravatar by going to My Account > Manage.  Hover over the image at the bottom under "Choose an image".  When you see the rating in black next to your image, click on the rating.  In the next page, click on a new rating.  You can also check the rating of your gravatar.

Whew I'm so glad that I'm back to a G-rating and people can see me again!  If you don't have a Gravatar, it is easy peasy to sign up.  Then you'll have an avatar for Haloscan comments (used here), Wordpress blogs and just about any other blog service besides Blogger .

I've Gone Pink for October!

Did the pink get your attention? October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Be sure to check out all the sites going pink at pinkforoctober.org. Just tonight I got the idea to make knitted pink ribbons so check back for a giveaway later this month.

And please click every day to fund mammograms at The Breast Cancer Site.

PageOnce, The Serious Aggregator

You know how most social networking sites are completely fluff, where you can collect thousands of virtual friends, pretend to hob nob with celebrities, etc? There is one social networking site that is different from the rest, that comes across as a serious networking site, where you would only add your real friends. And that is LinkedIn. It is so serious, I don't even link to it from my blog because I use my real name.

The same goes for web aggregators. There's iGoogle, MSN, My Yahoo! and Netvibes, which attempt to aggregate everything that matter to you on the web.  But that falls flat because the big three (Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo) won't support the each other's email.  And Netvibes is buggy and often slow.  But now there is PageOnce.  PageOnce is the serious net aggregator, much like LinkedIn is the serious social networking site.  Not only do they seamless integrate all your email, and fluffy and serious social networking sites (including LinkedIn), they also aggregate all your serious internet dealings, like utilities, credit cards and banks.  Plus they have a great free iPhone app.  It is easier for me to check my cell minutes on PageOnce's iOnce app than on the AT&T website.

So check out PageOnce, the serious net aggregator.


Click the screenshot to see it large.

Angela Needs to Get Away from Her Kids

I was looking into the meme where you Google your name with the word "needs", as in "Angela needs", and I came across this hysterical video. Luckily, I haven't totally flipped out at work and I hope Doug won't resort to this behavior when he returns to the workforce.

PicLens is just like Minority Report

I innocently installed the PicLens add-on for Firefox from a tip from kirtsy and forgot about it. A few days later I noticed a play arrow on my Flickr pictures. I clicked it and I was thrown right into Minority Report. Pictures were flying around to my will. I clicked on Entertainment and swished around to a trailer for Twilight. It is a totally awesome browsing experience. Adam immediately wanted in on the action and here he is trying it out for the first time.


As you can see, it is even easy for a child to use. Get your PicLens add-on for Firefox (Windows or Mac) or Internet Explorer here.

Tuesday Toot - Long Live Kirtsy!

This week I have to give a huge Toot and applause for the great gals at kirtsy, formally known as sk*rt. They have persevered through the toughest of corporate bullying from Skirt! magazine (don't bother gracing them with a visit) to be reborn into an even more fantabulous site. And the new name is totally cool. In true kirtsy fashion, they ran a contest to pick a new name. At first I thought kirtsy was a bit too cutesy and voted for sheesaw (as in she saw this site and wants to share it with you). But as soon as I saw the winner, it finally clicked. Just move the s in sk*rt to the end and curtsy away! Even the logo has transformed itself brilliantly. And to show you how truly great these gals are, here is a snippet from the email that they sent to us editors.

Over the weekend, after more harrassing letters from [Skirt! magazine's] lawyers, we created a giant timeline defending ourselves against their claims...with pretty charts and graphs with dated linked details on how a magazine for women bought its domain name after we had launched and how their site design changed radically from what it was last Aug to what it is now (coincidence?) and how we've always been supportive (duh, we're designed to send people to other websites. That's our whole point.) and how they've always not acted in a very sk*rty way and on and on and on and on and on and whatever. But we were angry. And we wanted our truths to be known. So all that crap is what we were going to send you today.

But thank God we didn't.

Because last night we talked to Guy Kawasaki. And with only a few words, he parted the clouds we were being stormed by. And we saw more clearly. And we realized, all that yuck is so not us.

We're not warring people. We created sk*rt to connect and support and inform. That's it. We didn't start it to start a gigantic business (obviously, or we wouldn't be in this situation). We started it to create something cool.

So we've made a decision, we're not going to talk about all that. No matter what is thown at us, we are going to be positive about this. We are going to be ourselves. We are moving forward, moving on. Life's too short.

I am so impressed by their outlook and fortitude, I hope they don't mind my sharing. World leaders could learn a thing or two from them. You don't have to fight to come out on top. The world will embrace your positive attitude. I could not be more proud to be a kirtsy editor!


For more news and reactions to the rebirth of kirtsy, check out Design Mom (a kirtsy founder), The Bloggess, Gwen Bell, Oh My Stinkin' Heck, and BlogHer.

So go check out kirtsy for yourself and enter their huge contest!