I'm trying a Technorati experiment after reading Christina's recent post. Let's see if I can do it right. I have two left thumbs when it comes to doing anything beyond Remedial Computer 101.
The steps listed are:
1. Copy The List Below into a blog post of yours.
2. Add Your Link To The List
3. Comment on this post and leave your links so the web crawlers can get to your blog and at the same time, leave your comment and links to the original post so your blog will be included on the master list. Got to include your blog on the master list.
4. Watch Your Authority Sky-Rocket..
Anyone want to try this? I'm curious...
Below is the copied portion...
*–Copy Here - Technorati Authority–*1. Brad Blogging.com - Daily Blog Tips For The Masses
2. Daily Blogging Tips At The Daily Rambler
3. Blog Chews - Blog About Anything
4. Steve v4.6 - Big Made Small
5. GIVEAWAY CITY
6. Indo Contest.com - Find the Latest Contest Here
7. POTPOLITICS-We Smoke the Competition
8. ATA - AskTheAdmin.com
9. Dolly’s Daily Diary
10. The Tech Juice - Tech Tips And More
11. Wendy’s OBA, Blog Tips & Tricks
12. Wendy’s Reel - Fact And Fancy
13. A Grateful Heart
14. 50+Whatever..Just some Ramblings in Life
16. The Blog for DesignCreatology
17. Contest Whiz - The Blog Contest Expert
18. About Blog Contests
19. Esmeraldasblog - Como aumentar la Authority de Technorati
20. Best Widgets for free - Blog Widgets
21. New life by Pitonizza
22. Todo Seiya - Como aumentar la Authority de Technorati
23. Blog for Spanish Readers
24. The Blogger And The Blog
25. Hero Help
26. Makmalcyber
27. Forex Study
28. Techyplus
29. 8
30. Darn Good Reviews
31. Blogger Tips - DotBlogger
32. Lilyruths This and That
33. That Blog 4 Me
34. Pinoytek - Make Money Online and SEO Blog
35. Snigit(blogspot)
36. Snigit(.com)
37. Best Of The Web
38. Swat the Fly
39. Area3000
40. Shut Up And Eat
41. Find Torrent Blog
42. Cebu in the World
43. Web Design
44. Trestin Adventures
45. Ask Trestin
46. Trestin Autobiography
47. Trestin Ideas
48. Trestin Gallery
49. Trestin Games
50.(Impressive Results!) Trestin Hall Of Fame
51. Trestin History
52. Parnell Forever
53. Trestin Political
54. Trestin Spiritual
55. Trestin Sports
56. Trestin Store - Yep, Each One Of These Are Different Blogs.
57. The Ordinary Agung
58. Il blog di Luca Marchi
59. What About Brazil?
60. Shri Rada Blog
61. Hawaiian Travel Blog
62. Hawaii Cruise Superstore
63. GadgetHeat!
64. Over The Sky
65. Yavinator log
66. I Travel to Work do you?
67. The Home Page of Tony Smith, Writer of Comic Books, Articles & Screenplays
68. Ultimate Credit Online
69. The Rhythm of Write
70. A Hoosier Family
71. Analyzed Marketing Solutions
72. O2S Media
73. Project Swole - Fitness and Nutrition
74. Life is simple, Don’t make it complicated
75. Yet Another Blog from Marco Ciacci
76. Freebies, Making money and More
77. Babysitter On Board
78.Vhiel’s Corner
79. Anything and Everything in Between
80. Designs By Vhiel
81. Can of Thoughts
82. Only in Silence
83. Everything Nice!
84.Reference Notes
85. It’s a woman’s world!
86. Ramki’s Blog
87. THE MOM WITH BROWNIES
88. Picture Clusters
89. Maiylah’s Snippets
90. My Wanderings
91. Confessions of a Supermodel Wannabe
92. Tiklaton: We are the Witness!
93. Aeirin Collections
94. The Big Dog
95. O’Joy of my life…
96. Through the Rain
97. More Than A Mom
98. Say Cheese
99. The Journey
AWESOME! TRIPLE DIGITS! 100. Photo Hook
101. Life Quest
102. Dew Drops - Making Sense… Somehow
103. The Small Business Marketing Blog
104. TheSuburbanFarmer
105. Konaini Blog
106. Worldly Economic Thoughts
107. Esperto Seo
108. gd labs gianfranco davide reppucci Blog
109. insidetheworld Italian Linux and Security Blog team
110. The Back Forty
Copy This and add your link. Don't forget to post at the HERE and at the original post!
OK, Christina...hope I did it correctly :)
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Monday, June 23, 2008
Friday, April 11, 2008
See Former Post for Blogroll Update
I started the draft of the blogroll update, saved it for more updating temporarily, and then posted the Yogurt and Kefir post.
Then I went back and pulled the saved blogroll post back up and found allllll those links. (I still have to put them on the sidebar, but first things first...)
When I pushed the Blogger "publish" button, it published it in the sequence it had been saved...prior to the yogurt post. But I want it on top...so...I went in to edit it, as in saving it to draft and then republishing it, hoping that would rearrange the sequence to be the newest post.
BUT when I did THAT, it went back to the VERY FIRST SAVED VERSION of the post...the one WITHOUT the TWENTY-FIVE blog links..
Ooooohhhhhh, breathe through your nose, Robbyn!!!
I pushed the Back arrow and THANKFULLY OH GOOD GOLLY SO THANKFULLY it took me back to the post list, and I pushed View Blog. And seemingly, the complete post is still there...not erased.
I hope it shows up. If not, I will excuse myself to have a little Blogger Moment of Losing My Dwindling Sanity....
;-)
Arrrrgggghhhhhhhhh!!!
Then I went back and pulled the saved blogroll post back up and found allllll those links. (I still have to put them on the sidebar, but first things first...)
When I pushed the Blogger "publish" button, it published it in the sequence it had been saved...prior to the yogurt post. But I want it on top...so...I went in to edit it, as in saving it to draft and then republishing it, hoping that would rearrange the sequence to be the newest post.
BUT when I did THAT, it went back to the VERY FIRST SAVED VERSION of the post...the one WITHOUT the TWENTY-FIVE blog links..
Ooooohhhhhh, breathe through your nose, Robbyn!!!
I pushed the Back arrow and THANKFULLY OH GOOD GOLLY SO THANKFULLY it took me back to the post list, and I pushed View Blog. And seemingly, the complete post is still there...not erased.
I hope it shows up. If not, I will excuse myself to have a little Blogger Moment of Losing My Dwindling Sanity....
;-)
Arrrrgggghhhhhhhhh!!!
Thursday, January 10, 2008
I Have Now Exhausted My Design Skills
...and it took nearly no time at all. Wait, who am I kidding? It took SO much time, time I should be doing laundry, cleaning my floors, making meals, going to the library. But I was determined. I had to try again. How is it that there are so many wonderwomen out there who have great beautiful terrific blog graphics and design while mine languished in the Novice zone?
Well, I DID BUY a graphic. For one buck! So tah-dah.... I learned how to superimpose writing over that. It only took me 3.047 days to learn THAT one skill, hahaha!
Even after all that, my new design is showing up grainy and blurred once published. Oh, the original is perfect and crisp and doesnt take up half the screen. But in the process of computer-speak, I have not mastered the art of communicating through kindergarten-level blog publishing means the SIMPLE and NICE presentation that could have been. I DID talk to the computer the whole time. I exhorted, wheedled, cajoled. I begged. And yet...well, and yet. I'm a relic, and I have relic skills.
Is this what it's come to? My web page design skills are the equivalent of my grandpa's skills with television reception so long ago. Every night we clustered near the blinking TV screen, snowy with white and gray scrolling glare, he'd go outside, rotate the antenna (muttering under his breath things my grandma would hear and hiss "not, in front of the girls, Wilbur!)and shout through the window "How's that? More to the right?" Then he'd position it as directed, make his way back inside, finally get settled in front of the old black and white set, until the next good gust of wind dislodged the antenna again.
"PSHAW!!!" (I swear he said that)
"Wilbur! Not in front of the girls..."
I couldn't tell today, you what an IPod is, how to work a Blackberry, can't figure what buttons to push on most of the fancier cellphones, never have trusted being able to NOT lose one of those hand-held digital organizers, don't know what an MP3 is or how to download one onto a CD, can't operate Excel, can't do a decent spreadsheet...and have no clue how to fancy up my blogger blog to look professional like many of the blogs I love. Where did I get off the train??
So this is it...it's the scissors and glue version. Is this my Progress ceiling? Am I one of those people who refuses to learn how to microwave popcorn because you have to push a button, or who won't learn how to check their voice mails because it's "technology?" Well, thankfully, I do know how to do those things (though we dont use microwaves any more). I guess I'm feeling less and less inclined to keep up. Maybe I prefer relics because what with all this planned obsolescence, it's just a matter of time before I'll have to relearn the Newer-Better-Faster.
At any rate, what I'm hoping to learn more of is not the new but the old...the ways things were done for generations, or sometimes thousands of years, before "progress" erased their memory.
But I made a weak stab at updating the graphic header on this blog, and it may not progress farther without the intervention of at least a 6th grader. This is like the day I learned to operate the Subtitles button on DVDs. It's almost as thrilling as the moment I plugged my new camera into the computer and it ACTUALLY loaded pictures!
I'll stop while I'm ahead. After all, I did realize when opening up the html for the blog and peeking around a bit, one wrong keystroke and the whole thing could blow up. Nothing has exploded yet, so I'm stopping before it gets downright dangerous. For a relatively smart person, I can't believe I'm so chicken hearted and behind the times. And I can't believe I'm so ok with that...ha!
OK, enough ramble. Let's see if this gets posted when I hit Publish.
You never know...
;-)
Well, I DID BUY a graphic. For one buck! So tah-dah.... I learned how to superimpose writing over that. It only took me 3.047 days to learn THAT one skill, hahaha!
Even after all that, my new design is showing up grainy and blurred once published. Oh, the original is perfect and crisp and doesnt take up half the screen. But in the process of computer-speak, I have not mastered the art of communicating through kindergarten-level blog publishing means the SIMPLE and NICE presentation that could have been. I DID talk to the computer the whole time. I exhorted, wheedled, cajoled. I begged. And yet...well, and yet. I'm a relic, and I have relic skills.
Is this what it's come to? My web page design skills are the equivalent of my grandpa's skills with television reception so long ago. Every night we clustered near the blinking TV screen, snowy with white and gray scrolling glare, he'd go outside, rotate the antenna (muttering under his breath things my grandma would hear and hiss "not, in front of the girls, Wilbur!)and shout through the window "How's that? More to the right?" Then he'd position it as directed, make his way back inside, finally get settled in front of the old black and white set, until the next good gust of wind dislodged the antenna again.
"PSHAW!!!" (I swear he said that)
"Wilbur! Not in front of the girls..."
I couldn't tell today, you what an IPod is, how to work a Blackberry, can't figure what buttons to push on most of the fancier cellphones, never have trusted being able to NOT lose one of those hand-held digital organizers, don't know what an MP3 is or how to download one onto a CD, can't operate Excel, can't do a decent spreadsheet...and have no clue how to fancy up my blogger blog to look professional like many of the blogs I love. Where did I get off the train??
So this is it...it's the scissors and glue version. Is this my Progress ceiling? Am I one of those people who refuses to learn how to microwave popcorn because you have to push a button, or who won't learn how to check their voice mails because it's "technology?" Well, thankfully, I do know how to do those things (though we dont use microwaves any more). I guess I'm feeling less and less inclined to keep up. Maybe I prefer relics because what with all this planned obsolescence, it's just a matter of time before I'll have to relearn the Newer-Better-Faster.
At any rate, what I'm hoping to learn more of is not the new but the old...the ways things were done for generations, or sometimes thousands of years, before "progress" erased their memory.
But I made a weak stab at updating the graphic header on this blog, and it may not progress farther without the intervention of at least a 6th grader. This is like the day I learned to operate the Subtitles button on DVDs. It's almost as thrilling as the moment I plugged my new camera into the computer and it ACTUALLY loaded pictures!
I'll stop while I'm ahead. After all, I did realize when opening up the html for the blog and peeking around a bit, one wrong keystroke and the whole thing could blow up. Nothing has exploded yet, so I'm stopping before it gets downright dangerous. For a relatively smart person, I can't believe I'm so chicken hearted and behind the times. And I can't believe I'm so ok with that...ha!
OK, enough ramble. Let's see if this gets posted when I hit Publish.
You never know...
;-)
Friday, December 28, 2007
Trouble with Blogger
I'm getting free header graphics, like I have in the past, but even with the same dimensions they are coming out as if wrongly-sized and blurry, even though the original is crisp and perfect. Very frustrating.
Then I got a scare when I went in to edit fonts and colors. The template went completely midnight blue on me...the whole thing. So, apologies for the header stuck in blurry incoherence and the side bar in carnival colors. Even if you put your glasses on or contacts in, it's still blurry.
Hope Blogger gets a strong cup of coffee and figgers out what's going bonkers...
Arggghhhhh....
Then I got a scare when I went in to edit fonts and colors. The template went completely midnight blue on me...the whole thing. So, apologies for the header stuck in blurry incoherence and the side bar in carnival colors. Even if you put your glasses on or contacts in, it's still blurry.
Hope Blogger gets a strong cup of coffee and figgers out what's going bonkers...
Arggghhhhh....
Monday, August 27, 2007
Testing....testing
Tests come, tests go. I've had my share of tests at the In Town Job, and happily they've all been passed so far.
I'm hoping at this very moment to pass a personal test of Basic Blog Construction by seeing if I can, with grace and ease, FINALLY learn to include smack in my blog text words that link elsewhere...which everyone else out there seems to be doing without any problems. You know.. the highlighted little places in the text that you click on and it boings you to blissful elsewheres of further reading.
And so.....drumrolllll.....here goes The Very First Sentence I've Typed With Most Basic Linkage Included. Can I make it work?
Sample Sentence:
Ah, now to publish and test this.
Be right back....
(Now I'm back)
I'm hoping at this very moment to pass a personal test of Basic Blog Construction by seeing if I can, with grace and ease, FINALLY learn to include smack in my blog text words that link elsewhere...which everyone else out there seems to be doing without any problems. You know.. the highlighted little places in the text that you click on and it boings you to blissful elsewheres of further reading.
And so.....drumrolllll.....here goes The Very First Sentence I've Typed With Most Basic Linkage Included. Can I make it work?
Sample Sentence:
Robbyn, preoccupied with thoughts of what sort of
goat might help clear the brush on a property she hopes to one day own if her
husband makes a successful real estate swap, remembered one of the books that
Started All of This...the one nearly shouting to her from the bookstore
shelf all those years ago, demanding to be bought, read, and admired in a way
fatefully provoking an escalating tumult of ideas now fueling her urge to
leave it all behind and live in a snug lean-to in the woods.
Ah, now to publish and test this.
Be right back....
(Now I'm back)
Hmmm, well YAY, I finally got some text to link! Boo that it turned out underlined rather than highlighted...wonder if that is normal or just happened because I included it in a quote paragraph thingy?
And yes, I know this entire post is fraught with horridly-constructed run-on sentences. That trend may not subside till I've fully typed out all my pent-up blog withdrawal. Sort of like every time I try to read Charles Dickens and get more preoccupied seeing exactly how many pages I have to turn before actually finding punctuation such as a Period.
Or in typing sentences beginning with the words And, Sort Of, or Or, and containing no subject with which to make a predicate agree, simply because I want to.
And now to fix one problem and ignore the other. Off to try to figure out the link dilemma.
Monday, May 28, 2007
Operating System Crash
Good gosh-amighty! I can't believe it's been THIS LONG since we've had computer access!!!
The computer crashed with a mighty roaring kablooey, which seriously came at the worst possible time, and took more effort to fix than was expected. The reason?? We still don't know...
A LOT has happened in the interim, but I'm hastily posting this so that my blog friends will know I didnt perish in a car crash or something and simply disappear from the Great Internet Beyond without a peep.
More to write, after catching up with ALL the emails we've received since May 4...oh myyy....
Being unplugged was very....quiet.... :)
Shall return, apres the email-checking smorgasbord.
And HELLO again...!!! :)
The computer crashed with a mighty roaring kablooey, which seriously came at the worst possible time, and took more effort to fix than was expected. The reason?? We still don't know...
A LOT has happened in the interim, but I'm hastily posting this so that my blog friends will know I didnt perish in a car crash or something and simply disappear from the Great Internet Beyond without a peep.
More to write, after catching up with ALL the emails we've received since May 4...oh myyy....
Being unplugged was very....quiet.... :)
Shall return, apres the email-checking smorgasbord.
And HELLO again...!!! :)
Friday, March 16, 2007
Computer Eejit
I keep company with lower life forms when it comes to computer proficiency. Don't feel sorry for me...it's rather peaceful here in the primordial ooze of technological denial.
Apologies for the recent linking errors due to my Haste to Paste...I had repeat https where you're supposed to cut and paste the links. Oops! Were it not for the courtesy of James (The Good Life), it would have been a while before I noticed anything was amiss.
I'd like to have a more jaunty and less sophomoric look to my blog's graphics, but I'm stuck in the land of Blogger Reliance. I looked back over alternate templates, but....nuttin'. I'd like a personalized header graphics bar thingy (not sure that's the right word for it)...you know, the part where the title and header text goes? Something to personalize it for more individuality.
When I get my INSTAMATIC (yes, again, no flashy digital cam yet!) photos going, I do at least know how to include them in the posts. We'll see how that goes.
But as far as the template, some day I'll maybe get downright saucy with design...or at least personalize it. Not now, though. I did try last night. I went into the blogger html, looked around with the trepidation akin to Greenpeacers touring a nuclear plant, backed out hastily lest I push the wrong button and find my blog combusting with a huge bang to smithereens.
Someday, I shall consult an expert, who will then use his/her superior faculties to take my hand and help me get a bit more advanced. When I'm ready, and not intimidated.
Probably a friend's fifth grader sometime over the summer break...?
Apologies for the recent linking errors due to my Haste to Paste...I had repeat https where you're supposed to cut and paste the links. Oops! Were it not for the courtesy of James (The Good Life), it would have been a while before I noticed anything was amiss.
I'd like to have a more jaunty and less sophomoric look to my blog's graphics, but I'm stuck in the land of Blogger Reliance. I looked back over alternate templates, but....nuttin'. I'd like a personalized header graphics bar thingy (not sure that's the right word for it)...you know, the part where the title and header text goes? Something to personalize it for more individuality.
When I get my INSTAMATIC (yes, again, no flashy digital cam yet!) photos going, I do at least know how to include them in the posts. We'll see how that goes.
But as far as the template, some day I'll maybe get downright saucy with design...or at least personalize it. Not now, though. I did try last night. I went into the blogger html, looked around with the trepidation akin to Greenpeacers touring a nuclear plant, backed out hastily lest I push the wrong button and find my blog combusting with a huge bang to smithereens.
Someday, I shall consult an expert, who will then use his/her superior faculties to take my hand and help me get a bit more advanced. When I'm ready, and not intimidated.
Probably a friend's fifth grader sometime over the summer break...?
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