http://ajaxian.com/archives/stickytag-web-post-its Cleaning up the web with Ajax Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:55:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 http://ajaxian.com/archives/stickytag-web-post-its/comment-page-1#comment-247709 ryan ritchie Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:42:34 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/archives/stickytag-web-post-its#comment-247709 The book takes place in a house in England in the 1200’s and Catherine, or also called birdy in this book, the stubborn daughter of Sir Rollo and Lady Aislinn, has been asked, by her brother who is a munk, to keep a journal and these are supposed to be important in her life for one whole year. Birdy has been proposed to by a richer knight than her father. Unfortunately, she finds her future husband to be old, basic and filthy. Unlike most of her friends, Birdy rebels against the idea of a woman working. She hates being bought and sold in order to make her father richer and she had drove off all previous suitors. As we read through a year with Birdy, we learn about village, castle and lif of a rich knight. She goes to fairs, weddings, plays, church and funerals. With Birdy, we visit a monastery. She learns about medicine and the roles played by every station of life. Jews are kicked out of England and some stop at the manor house where Birdy, who has been warned about them, looks for their tails and wonders at their people. The talent of Cushman, however, is so good that mostly we learn about Birdy. She's not just there as a camera to witness the events for our inspection. She's a fully developed character and by the time I finished this short novel, you know a lot about her and she feels a lot of regret by the end of the story. The afterword sets Birdy's life in the bigger point of view and contains a lot of easy historical information within a few pages. My opinion on the book is it was a good plot to it in the beginning and it made me want to keep reading more so I could find out what happens. On the other hand I didn’t like how the whole thing was a journal entry. Maybe one day she wrote a word and the next day she wrote a few pages. I just don’t like how the book goes back and forth for the first half. It eases up the second half but the story gets a little crazy then. Over all it was a decent book The book takes place in a house in England in the 1200’s and Catherine, or also called birdy in this book, the stubborn daughter of Sir Rollo and Lady Aislinn, has been asked, by her brother who is a munk, to keep a journal and these are supposed to be important in her life for one whole year.
Birdy has been proposed to by a richer knight than her father. Unfortunately, she finds her future husband to be old, basic and filthy. Unlike most of her friends, Birdy rebels against the idea of a woman working. She hates being bought and sold in order to make her father richer and she had drove off all previous suitors.
As we read through a year with Birdy, we learn about village, castle and lif of a rich knight. She goes to fairs, weddings, plays, church and funerals. With Birdy, we visit a monastery. She learns about medicine and the roles played by every station of life. Jews are kicked out of England and some stop at the manor house where Birdy, who has been warned about them, looks for their tails and wonders at their people.
The talent of Cushman, however, is so good that mostly we learn about Birdy. She’s not just there as a camera to witness the events for our inspection. She’s a fully developed character and by the time I finished this short novel, you know a lot about her and she feels a lot of regret by the end of the story.
The afterword sets Birdy’s life in the bigger point of view and contains a lot of easy historical information within a few pages. My opinion on the book is it was a good plot to it in the beginning and it made me want to keep reading more so I could find out what happens. On the other hand I didn’t like how the whole thing was a journal entry. Maybe one day she wrote a word and the next day she wrote a few pages. I just don’t like how the book goes back and forth for the first half. It eases up the second half but the story gets a little crazy then. Over all it was a decent book

]]> http://ajaxian.com/archives/stickytag-web-post-its/comment-page-1#comment-245968 Phil Crosby Thu, 11 Jan 2007 04:08:12 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/archives/stickytag-web-post-its#comment-245968 I tried to use this, but once I logged in, it proceeded to reload the page in an infinite loop (FF2.0). Awesome. I tried to use this, but once I logged in, it proceeded to reload the page in an infinite loop (FF2.0). Awesome.

]]> http://ajaxian.com/archives/stickytag-web-post-its/comment-page-1#comment-168893 Simon Jia Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:43:02 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/archives/stickytag-web-post-its#comment-168893 Buggy as hell on FF2.0. Buggy as hell on FF2.0.

]]> http://ajaxian.com/archives/stickytag-web-post-its/comment-page-1#comment-166926 StickyTag - The StickyTag Blog » Blog Archive » Thank You :-) Tue, 07 Nov 2006 02:56:16 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/archives/stickytag-web-post-its#comment-166926 [...] Thanks in no small part to Ajaxian [...] [...] Thanks in no small part to Ajaxian [...]

]]> http://ajaxian.com/archives/stickytag-web-post-its/comment-page-1#comment-166710 Adrian Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:54:39 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/archives/stickytag-web-post-its#comment-166710 I can add StickyTags only while I'm at StickyTag.com, should the "add new" button not appear and hover over the content of any page I browse to? I'd get right into using it if I can figure out how it works! I can add StickyTags only while I’m at StickyTag.com, should the “add new” button not appear and hover over the content of any page I browse to? I’d get right into using it if I can figure out how it works!

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