Ok, I am going to stop being indecisive and move to WordPress. I feel disloyal [to a blog! - Help, I really do have an over-developed sense of responsibility], but I can't have two blogs on the go at the same time, and WordPress won, despite some trouble with images, which I hope will sort itself out.
So, from now on I'll be posting under the guise of Bookmouse. Please come and visit me in my new home!
If you have a link to me, don't worry about changing it (unless you'd rather). Hopefully people can find their way from here to the new blog ok.
Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts
Saturday, October 14, 2006
My latest post
Which concerns photos and dogs, can be viewed somewhere else. Sorry for flitting, I just happened to be there testing things out, so I thought I'd write something there.
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Meanwhile, in other electronic and unimportant lands
Meanwhile, in TV-land, Ruth has left Spooks. I was quite disappointed by this, in a not very important, it's only TV kind of way. She was my favourite spook, for several reasons - she's wasn't blond, she wasn't pretty (although she was beautiful), and she was a bit crazy. Harry made a good choice.
Meanwhile, in blog-land, I'm thinking of moving to WordPress. Many blogging acquaintances use this, so I thought I would investigate. I've set up a little test blog there and it seems more user-friendly than Blogger. Stuff that's only in beta here is standard there, plus it has stuff that isn't even in beta Blogger. Oops I hope Blogger don't wipe my blog now I've said bad things about it. I do still like you! Anyway, I'm staying here for now, as I can't transfer stuff from here to there until the beta becomes alpha, or whatever the techie term is. I guess I could just start a continuation blog...I might do that, but I don't like change. It's a bit like getting my hair cut. I like the thought of it, but I never quite get around to doing it, and I might just be going through a phase. I'll try it (WordPress, not hair cutting) out a bit more first and see...
Blogging for history
I thought you (anyone who's reading this) might be interested in the 1 Day in History day on October 17th. The History Matters campaign want as many people as possible to record their experiences of the day, which was chosen as it's not a 'special' day, for a mass blog to be archived at the British Library. You can read the Daily Telegraph article about it if you like, or visit the History Matters website for more information.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Why are [some] people so horrible?
Following a particularly unpleasant comment posted on here last night/earlier today I have decided not to allow any more comments on this blog. I apologise to the nice people who have left comments in the past, but I don't want anything remotely resembling a repeat of what was posted here last night. I did consider deleting the blog, but have decided to continue for the time being, although I don't really feel like writing anything (except this short explanation) at the moment.
I may be being oversensitive, but these things get to me.
I may be being oversensitive, but these things get to me.
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Beta Blogger
Sounds like beta blockers...
Anyway, since I found the cunning way to do categories, Beta Blogger has arrived, which gives one the ability to make categories with ease! Hooray! There are quite a few nice features, such as the ability to make posts private or for selected readers and to change the colours and font on your blog without having to do the html, and you can change the layout of your blog by dragging and dropping items. I think some (if not all) of these things have been available on other blog providers for a while, so I'm glad that Blogger has now caught up a bit.
The only thing is that I won't be practising html quite so much now. Still, I have my web authoring training to look forward to...
Anyway, since I found the cunning way to do categories, Beta Blogger has arrived, which gives one the ability to make categories with ease! Hooray! There are quite a few nice features, such as the ability to make posts private or for selected readers and to change the colours and font on your blog without having to do the html, and you can change the layout of your blog by dragging and dropping items. I think some (if not all) of these things have been available on other blog providers for a while, so I'm glad that Blogger has now caught up a bit.
The only thing is that I won't be practising html quite so much now. Still, I have my web authoring training to look forward to...
Sunday, August 06, 2006
New things
At the moment, inspired by The Singing Librarian, I'm trying out new things on my blog. To this end, I have set up a test blog, so that if something goes horribly wrong I won't make a big mess where it matters. I think Blogger is slightly limited in the things you can do, e.g. you can't put posts into categories [or tag them], unless you use a 'hack' thought up by someone else. So this is what I intend to do, and I'm currently testing one way of doing it on the test blog. It's not working so far, but I live in hope! It sounds very cunning and I can see how it should work in theory, but we will see...
Later...
Well, it works on this blog, although not on the test one, which I think is to do with the age of posts. There are drawbacks in that, because it works using Blogger search, if you click on a category you get every post that even mentions the category title. This can be solved though, by putting a distinctive 'tag' on a post, e.g., changing music to -music- (or something) when it's specifically there as a tag (and also changing the category title to -music-) I will do this at some point. Anyway thanks to danchong for his clever idea.
Even later...
Well, I tried my cunning plan (see above) and it hasn't worked. I still get every post mentioning music. I will try other things when I've not been sitting at the computer for such a long time. Meanwhile, if you click on a category don't expect your results to be completely accurate. Sorry!
Having said that, it works ok for some things, e.g. 'GUCH', because it's quite specific. 'Books', however, doesn't necessarily turn up results about books, but it might turn up a post about shelving where books are mentioned.
Later...
Well, it works on this blog, although not on the test one, which I think is to do with the age of posts. There are drawbacks in that, because it works using Blogger search, if you click on a category you get every post that even mentions the category title. This can be solved though, by putting a distinctive 'tag' on a post, e.g., changing music to -music- (or something) when it's specifically there as a tag (and also changing the category title to -music-) I will do this at some point. Anyway thanks to danchong for his clever idea.
Even later...
Well, I tried my cunning plan (see above) and it hasn't worked. I still get every post mentioning music. I will try other things when I've not been sitting at the computer for such a long time. Meanwhile, if you click on a category don't expect your results to be completely accurate. Sorry!
Having said that, it works ok for some things, e.g. 'GUCH', because it's quite specific. 'Books', however, doesn't necessarily turn up results about books, but it might turn up a post about shelving where books are mentioned.
The dilemmas of a blogger
I'm not sure whether I'm an anomaly amongst bloggers, but I feel a bit uncomfortable about people I know reading my blog. It's just disturbing to think that e.g. my colleagues could read all my inane ramblings and then I have to see them the next day at work after they have read about my fears of lying horizontally, for example.
Being read by fellow bloggers is not so disturbing, in a way, because fair's fair, I read their stuff and I think that, rightly, they should be subjected to my musings in return. [This is not entirely serious, I hasten to add - I enjoy reading other people's blogs very much]. Seriously though, somehow it is less worrying, maybe because...
[I must break off to tell you that there's a really odd version of 'Somewhere' from West Side Story on the radio at the moment. Very odd arrangement. Sounds like Barbara Streisand]
....I don't reallyknow why, but I think it is to do with them writing as well, and therefore, I assume, perhaps not being so judgmental about what other people write, knowing how it is to feel vulnerable about having their....
[It wasn't Barbara Streisand, it was Barbara Walsh, and it was supposed to be funny, apparently]
...work read and potentially judged by other people.
I suppose you could argue that I shouldn't write things I don't want people I know to read, but there are few people I know who read blogs. Also, having said all of the above this is going to sound weird, but the better I know someone the less worried I am that they'll judge me. So, for example, Mr C can read to his heart's content and I don't mind, but work colleagues I don't know very well* are more of a worry**. The exceptions to this 'rule' are parents and other relatives, whose judgement I still worry about, and who, it could be argued may not know me as well as they think.
As for people I don't know at all, I really don't mind what they think of me, so they can read as much as they like and (a), I probably won't know about it, and (b) I won't care.
If only I could draw a diagram I'm sure it would all become clearer.
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*Work colleagues I arguably don't know very well but who blog are less of a worry, because, rightly or wrongly, I feel like I know them better from reading their blogs, and they also come under the category of fellow bloggers (see above).
**No offence is intended by this statement.
Being read by fellow bloggers is not so disturbing, in a way, because fair's fair, I read their stuff and I think that, rightly, they should be subjected to my musings in return. [This is not entirely serious, I hasten to add - I enjoy reading other people's blogs very much]. Seriously though, somehow it is less worrying, maybe because...
[I must break off to tell you that there's a really odd version of 'Somewhere' from West Side Story on the radio at the moment. Very odd arrangement. Sounds like Barbara Streisand]
....I don't reallyknow why, but I think it is to do with them writing as well, and therefore, I assume, perhaps not being so judgmental about what other people write, knowing how it is to feel vulnerable about having their....
[It wasn't Barbara Streisand, it was Barbara Walsh, and it was supposed to be funny, apparently]
...work read and potentially judged by other people.
I suppose you could argue that I shouldn't write things I don't want people I know to read, but there are few people I know who read blogs. Also, having said all of the above this is going to sound weird, but the better I know someone the less worried I am that they'll judge me. So, for example, Mr C can read to his heart's content and I don't mind, but work colleagues I don't know very well* are more of a worry**. The exceptions to this 'rule' are parents and other relatives, whose judgement I still worry about, and who, it could be argued may not know me as well as they think.
As for people I don't know at all, I really don't mind what they think of me, so they can read as much as they like and (a), I probably won't know about it, and (b) I won't care.
If only I could draw a diagram I'm sure it would all become clearer.
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*Work colleagues I arguably don't know very well but who blog are less of a worry, because, rightly or wrongly, I feel like I know them better from reading their blogs, and they also come under the category of fellow bloggers (see above).
**No offence is intended by this statement.
Saturday, July 22, 2006
Comment annoyance
Aggh someone, or several someones, is leaving comments on my blog so that they can advertise their product(s). Lots of them! 53 today! I can't be bothered to go through and find and delete them all, but if you happen upon any such comments while reading this blog please don't follow the link!
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Number3
I've put a hit counter on my blog, because yesterday Mr C and I were discussing it, and how many people look at it. I think very few, so I am going to see (presuming the counter works ok). It would be nice to have more readers, but then I would have to worry more about what I write!
Sunday, November 13, 2005
Wow!
Wow, my posts are so boring that no one can even be bothered to vote on how boring they are! That has to be an achievement.
I sent the invitations - well, my half of the invitations anyway. Mr C still has to find addresses for most of his friends and family. He was supposed to phone some people tonight, but has not! Apparantly he can tell how stressed I am by the speed of my typing - the faster I type, the more stressed I am. Beware!
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is on (hence the above pic). It's a good'un, but not as good as the first one.
Here's an article that made me think, and made me ashamed, this week:
Supposing...We all had instant suicide buttons on our heads
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