I am having a problem with my Bloglines account. I am still subscribed to all the blogs I subscribe to, but there’s no way I can get it to display the list of blogs. So now I have to visit each blog to see if there’s something new. Is anyone else having this problem?
PistolPete and ama, I haven’t been able to leave comments at your blogs for several days. I hit submit and it just disappears. You haven’t (accidentally, of course, I’m sure) blocked me or anything, have you?
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Hmmm — it just happened at Missy’s, too. I apparently can no longer comment anywhere in WordPress.com. This is annoying.
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PistolPete found my comment in his spam folder. I just checked my spam folder but didn’t see Jan’s missing comment.
So far I like Shutterfly. I’ve transferred almost all of my current pictures (i.e. from Christmas and New Year’s).
But some things are not easy. I have my own Shutterfly page where I upload pictures and can edit (titles, rotate, etc). But I have to go through additional steps to get those pictures onto my publicly viewable page. And if I add a few new pictures to an existing album on my account, I can’t just add those few new ones to the same album on my public page — I have to add the entire album all over again. Humph.
I haven’t tried linking a photo from Shutterfly into the blog yet…
I spend too much time online. It’s the easy choice when Amy naps and I need a break. But I want to get my exercise, and play my dulcimer, and sit with the kitty, and things like that.
For the next thirty days, I am challenging myself to get on the computer only once a day.
Anyone want to join in?
I just added a Tag Cloud widget to my sidebar.
If you click on a tag in the main panel, in a post, it takes you to all the WordPress.com posts with that tag. If you want to just see my posts with that tag, click on the tag in the tag cloud instead.
It will take a while to reorganize the tags… I’m just not motivated to work on it all that much when I have other things I’d rather be doing.
Meanwhile, I’ve reorganized the “0-3 months” tag into “0 months,” “1 month,” and so on, but the Tag Cloud has not updated to reflect the changes yet. I wonder how often it does update?
WordPress.com has created a tag feature, distinct from categories. They’ve thankfully also created a quick way to convert some categories into tags, so I’ve done that. But it will take a while to re-organize my categories. Just in case anyone was noticing.
I have eight videos waiting on a CD for their chance to get out of the house and into YouTube.
Eight!
One is the spaghetti video that didn’t work last time.
The others are cute sounds and movements. One includes Mark. They’re all just a bit different, and all under a minute long.
But still — it’s hard enough (yet worth it) to narrow down pictures to the best few, and even harder to cut down videos.
I keep thinking about her grandparents who don’t get to see her every day or even every week or month. And some of these things I want to keep to remember later, too.
Speaking of keeping things to remember, I found out recently (I forget where or how) about a site that provides software you can use to turn your blog into a book. What a neat way to make a hard copy, especially for folks who don’t get their photos printed to put in scrapbooks or other albums. Along very similar lines, Creative Memories has software you can use to make a book of your digital pictures.
I’ve just realized something interesting.
You know there’s a list of my categories in the sidebar on the right. If you click on a category, it’ll bring up all of my posts in that category.
You also know that just under the title of each post, there’s a list of the category or categories it’s filed under. I had assumed that clicking on one of these categories would bring up all of my posts in that category, but it doesn’t — it takes you to a page of all the posts in the whole WordPress.com community that belong to that category.
I used to write another blog called The Irksome Girl.
The title came from my trio’s search for a band name. One of those band name generator websites came up with Order of the Irksome Girl, and we thought it was a great fit, considering our one female member; except it didn’t exactly go with our Celtic sound. I had to use it for something, though; my old blog, and a tune we recorded on our CD.
While I am taking a break from current writing, I thought I’d post a bunch of things I wrote in that old blog. They’re all categorized under “Irksome Girl” and I’ve published them with their original dates — anything earlier than May 2006 is from the old blog, plus one May ‘06 dream post.
