For Your Readers:
You will learn lots from these little slides, but your readers, whether pro- or anti- Twitter will appreciate this.  This is a slideshow, 140 slides, with one tweet on each one – that is 140 characters – easy peasy.  They are the best wisdom and guidelines for twittering.  It will answer the “Why-on-earth-do-you-do-that?” [...]

Dear Becca,
(I love your avatar – too cute!)
Your questions answered:
1. By grey boxes around everything – I assume you mean the images?   To remove these, go to Appearance>>Edit, and find the Style.css- should be listed at the bottom of the right-hand side.
- scan through that file until you find:
a img {border: 3px solid grey; [...]

Find out about twitter here:  http://twitter.com, register for an account, and find that gorgeous little blue birdie to put in your sidebar. I am probably the last person to find this site, but I’ll give it to ya anyway for posterity’s sake.
http://twitterbuttons.com
This is the only instructions you’ll need to install twitter in your sidebar:  [...]

Learned this about WordPress.Com sites today:
that there is an opml file/script located at http://myblog.wordpress.com/wp-links-opml.php. SOOOO if you want to import a list of links to your brand new self-hosted WordPress installation, you use the Import>Blogroll screen and type in that URL – voila!!
Source: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/creating-opml-files-of-posts?replies=9

I don’t know if you noticed this, but on an upgrade this year (which one was it, heather?) we lost the “ID” column in the Manage>Posts screen.  And yes, I know, you’ve never used it, and really don’t care.
But… I do bring you useful information each week, do I not?  Here’s why you care.  That [...]

1. You are typing a lovely post, title & text. (See my blog for some excellent examples, absolutely shameless I know.) 
2. Select the text that you want to turn into a link.
3. Click on the “link” icon as shown.

4. Link URL: This is the only thing that I ever [...]