http://www.cathryngray.com Life, technology and interesting tidbits put together. Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:31:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What do you think: is social media a fad? Many have questioned this for years now.. To answer your thoughts this video might give you a little more insight to how big social media has REALLY become, it sure did for me. http://www.cathryngray.com/2009/09/12/is-social-media-a-fad/ Many of you have wondered where I've disappeared to the past little bit and I figured with my new photo series complete, now is the best time to fill you in. I'm going to make this short and without much detail, seeing as these issues are very personal. I have lost my maternal ... http://www.cathryngray.com/2009/08/03/the-5-stages-of-grief-series/ I'm back again for my second attempt at 365 days of self portraits! This time I decided that I would start it on my 20th birthday, which was on July 7th. Turning 20 has signified many things to me including the fact that I'm getting older, time has been flying ... http://www.cathryngray.com/2009/07/13/365-days-is-back/ Twitter went down last week on the 8th and is down again for an hour, both were planned. That leaves me wondering what else to do when the fail whale comes up or when Twitter plans scheduled maintenance. Here's my compiled list of 25 alternative things to do when this happens: 1) Write a blog ... http://www.cathryngray.com/2009/05/13/20-alternative-things-to-do-when-twitter-is-down/ I have never shared the three inspiration videos for my 90D90 project. The first one is the original from Adam Scott Paul, who took over 3,200 photos with his Nikon D90 in the first 90 Days. The second is from Ryan Aylsworth who did a clean version of his 90D90, which ... http://www.cathryngray.com/2009/04/29/90d90-project-inspiration/ The spoof of Twitter, Flutter, introduces nanoblogging, which takes down the 140 character limit of Twitter down to 26 characters. I mean seriously, who needs vowels? http://www.cathryngray.com/2009/04/14/flutter-is-the-new-twitter/ http://www.cathryngray.com/2009/04/12/happy-easter/ Here you go Mr. 500 Internal Error, take that! I did some serious ranting on Twitter the past two days about Dreamhost having issues with the server that my site runs from. I would like to apologize for the downtime and I'm hoping that everything is now set back online for good, ... http://www.cathryngray.com/2009/04/11/downtime/ I signed up to Likaholix yesterday after reading a few tweets about it. This new social network definitely has some potential and is a bit addicting. So what is this Likaholix that you speak of? Likaholix allows you to share, discuss and discover your likes with people. Essentially, you find things ... http://www.cathryngray.com/2009/04/10/new-social-network-likaholix/ The user twoeggplants on Etsy.com has made it possible. What a crazy, awesome idea! The iPhone soap is said to be about the same size as the real deal. "It has the black button at the bottom and the "screen icons" in its "flat screen". The top layer of the soap is dark grayish ... http://www.cathryngray.com/2009/04/07/what-if-you-could-shower-with-your-iphone/