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I've finally updated my site to Drupal 6.2. It feels really nice, even though I've lost my theme and need to build another (or hire someone to design one for me).

Yeah, this is old news. My excuse is I'm busy, but today I actually looked through my news aggregator and found out that Sk*rt has finally changed their name. I admit, I'm not an avid Sk*rt reader, but I did kind of like the site in general. It's good looking, at least, and something to do if I'm looking to spend a few minutes vegging out. Their domain name sucked, though, http://sk-rt.com - how do you tell someone that? They realized this (or didn't want to deal w/ Skirt magazine suing them) and a few months back I see they're looking to change their name. Great!

Alright, so they did, and the new name is kirtsy. Cute, right? Ehh, I don't know. It makes me cringe. Is it just me that sees a "curtsy" as a submissive gesture? As something us women generally don't do anymore, and for good reason?

This week I have two websites that I've been having some fun with. The first is Taaz.com. At Taaz you can upload a photo of yourself and give yourself a makeover, with new hair, makeup, even contacts. It works quite well, the UI is nice, and it has all the social networking goodies like friends and commenting and you can even give other people makeovers! There's been other sites that tried to do this but didn't do a good job at all, were full of advertising (Taaz has advertising, but it's not intrusive), or gave you limited options unless you paid for it.

This is the haircut I come up with. They do need more hairstyles, I think, and a 360 view would be awesome.

It turns out since I switched my site to Slicehost my contact form hasn't been working. Quite obvious, since I'm using Google Apps for my email now. Anyhow, I did see several log entries of people trying to contact me and I did wonder why I hadn't gotten any email from the site in a while but wrote it off as just I hadn't been writing many interesting Drupal related things!

Anyway, if you tried to contact me, I was not ignoring you. Just send me an email directly which can now be found in the contact section, since I have no intention of spending the time to get mail on the site working right now.

Still digging? Check out Mixx. They just released their API.

This last week I've taken it upon myself to see what's going on in the web tech world. I used to keep pretty on top of this stuff, web 2.0 and all that, but I've admittedly fallen behind on the latest and greatest the past year, instead concentrating on Drupal and, of course, my three amazing daughters.

There's so many new websites and things to do and keep up with. Web 3.0, even - gack! Come on! I just barely started twittering (tweeting?) and reorganized my iGoogle and added a bunch of feeds I used to read, feeds from some Drupalchix, etc. But I still just don't know if it's even worth it.