Archive for the 'blogging' Category

WordPress glitches

April 11, 2008

Have any of you WordPress habitués ever gotten the error message, “You are posting comments too quickly. Slow down.” ?
I have tried posting comments on several WP blogs today and that very strange error message came up each time.
It’s not like I’m rapidly firing off comments left and right, blazing away at the computer keyboard [...]

I usually don’t “do” memes…

February 16, 2008

…but Poetikat tagged me, so I will try to rise to the challenge.
You can visit her meme here: Poetikat’s Invisible Keepsakes: 10 Things you’ll never hear me say.
My version of “10 THINGS YOU’LL NEVER HEAR ME SAY”
“You’re the worst conductor I’ve ever worked with!”
“I need a cigarette”.
“I’m going to blow your friggin’ head off!”.
“I love [...]

When the power is STILL out…

January 13, 2008

The Mysteries of RSS feeds & “feed URLS”

December 16, 2007

Okay, so I’m a complete idiot when it comes to any kind of html or understanding any of my blog’s inner-workings. Today’s demon: RSS feeds and “feed URLS”.
I know that there’s tremendous potential to make my blog completely wonderful, bristling and clanging with all sorts of bells & whistles on my sidebar, drawing the blog [...]

My Cat Rupert’s Blog

December 6, 2007

Okay, this is a shameless plug. My cat Rupert has been bugging me BIG TIME to help him update his blog lately, so since I am merely his Keeper, I have complied. (Have you ever taken dictation from a cat? It’s a challenge!)
Not only that, he insists that I remind my blog readers about his [...]

What was I thinking?

November 28, 2007

BOOKMARKS!
Hundreds of them have accumulated on my computer over the past couple of years.
Tonight I am finally grabbing the Firefox browser monkey by the neck — ripping it off my back — and starting to go through each and every bookmark to see if:
1.) …the links still work. (A surprising number of them don’t!)
2.) …I [...]

Old Blog Deleted

October 6, 2007

Over the past two days, I have laboriously copied all entries and their accompanying comments from my old blog, into a document that will serve as my memories of a certain small town that I thought I would spend the rest of my life in.
I did this because I have just deleted that blog. As [...]