I've fallen in love with this song ever since The Jane Doze played it at our company Grand Meetup closing party.

Have you heard about pinning tabs in Safari? If you have Mac OS X El Capitan then you have Safari 9 which includes tab pinning. From Apple's Support documentation: Pin Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Gmail, or any other website you visit frequently throughout the day. Pinned Sites stay put on the left side of your tab bar so you can easily get to them at any time.I frequently keep several tabs open on my work computer - the three Gmail instances I'm in and WordPress.com's Reader. Battling with my attention requires me to analyze my behaviors and continuously adapt to prevent problems. I recently discovered I frequently flip back over to Safari to look for the unread count in the tab titles and will derail my current thought process to read the email. My solution? Pinned tabs. ...

All I can think of when I hear Cyber Monday is some crappy 1980/90s movie about hacking and tech in the future.

I've been using Techsmith's SnagIt for years for taking screenshots. It started as a Windows-only product but then a Mac version came out. It's extremely simple to use and has most everything I want for a quick image including cropping, border effects, transparency, and annotations like arrows and text. What's your favorite screenshot and annotation tool?

My husband and I visited an area of northern Wisconsin today to look at a little cottage down the road from where my grandmother had a cottage growing up. The pictures online showed it needed some work, which we expected and planned ahead for. Sadly when we saw it in person we discovered it needed a bunch more work. We're going to keep looking for the right place. For now the campground we're in with our travel trailer gets us the "away place" during the summer. However, while we stood outside the lonely neglected little cottage, I fell back in love with the peace, quiet, and serenity of the north woods. ...

A coworker introduced me to Ravelry.com to find new patterns and to keep track of stuff I do with knitting and crocheting. It's free and simple! Ravelry is a place for knitters, crocheters, designers, spinners, weavers and dyers to keep track of their yarn, tools, project and pattern information, and look to others for ideas and inspiration. The content here is all user- driven; we as a community make the site what it is. Ravelry is a great place for you to keep notes about your projects, see what other people are making, find the perfect pattern and connect with people who love to play with yarn from all over the world in our forums.http://www.ravelry.com/about

I keep getting this error message on my iOS 9 device: Cannot Get Mail - The mail server "imap.gmail.com" is not responding. Verify that you have entered the correct account info in Mail settings.This randomly pops up on my iPhone for only one of the two Gmail accounts I have configured. The first account is an @gmail.com account and this one is a Google Apps account. ...

So this happened this morning: My secret? Thaw the tots in the microwave first but don't get them too hot. Line up the tots on the waffle iron. Any tots that got too hot the microwave will be breaking apart - sprinkle those over the rest to cement them together. Close the iron and squeeze it until the form takes. It took a while for the moisture to cook out of the tots - probably 5 minutes or more. ...

I had my annual blood work scheduled for today - but I couldn't get an appointment until 9:40am. Having to fast overnight and wait to well past my breakfast time was annoying. I decided to keep my schedule the same this morning sans food and coffee. I walked and worked on my treadmill desk for a little under two hours before the appointment. I felt good, drank enough water but noticed I was hungrier than normal before leaving. I had an appointment right before my blood work elsewhere so I left the house around 9am. ...

I wasn't trying to accomplish this but it looks like I don't commit code on Saturdays all that often. I like it. I am a geek through and through but even I need days to switch gears. Always doing the same thing all the time gets old. Saturdays are usually filled with non-tech things like knitting, visiting with family and friends, bike rides and a ton of camping in the summer. :)