Two guest posts in one week — here’s the second over at Douglas Monk’s place. I think I found him through our mutual blogfriend Enola.
Thordora asked her guests to write about mental illness; Douglas just asked for an introduction, what we’re passionate about, something personal.
My friend Thordora, taking a blogging break to sort through recent events, has invited her readers to submit guest posts. Mine is up today.
I laugh every time someone writes my name as March. So many Marches in elementary school I would make the opposite mistake in my headings — I’d start writing the month and it would automatically turn into my name.
My business website, http://mp-dulcimer.com, has disappeared. My email from that domain is likewise not working. And to top it all off, I can’t even get to the website of my host service, http://www.123ehost.com.
Interesting.
You can contact me through the comments here, or ask and I can give you my local email address. I’m not even getting an error message when I try to send an email to my business address, so you likewise might not know that I haven’t gotten or won’t get your email at that address.
Humph.
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Several hours later it’s all back. I didn’t receive the two emails I know were lost during the down time… but no other problems.
Do you think the benefits of posting personal pictures (oneself, one’s family, including one’s children) on a public blog outweigh the risks?
Everyone has to draw their own lines as to how much risk is too much; I don’t know what I think about the risks of posting pictures of Amy.
What do you think?
A related issue is using real names. I use my real name because I already have a public web presence through my music business, and because when I blogged anonymously I felt like someone hiding from hunters. Because I’m self-employed, I don’t have any worries about job-related risks.
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.
