Flynn's Paws: My Thoughts, My Gripes

Month: February 2008

  • 20080229-Editing Weblog

    Today, I’ve done nothing but modify my weblog. It’s all I could do while waiting for nothing as the days pass by like the clouds that didn’t appear for today’s mostly clear blue skies. I attended morning mass, had breakfast at McDonald’s restaurant, shopped for grocery at the DeCA in Moffett Field, CA and ate only a banana for lunch.

    I ran upstairs and tried adding a ‘background-image’ of an old clip-art from Microsoft of a scrollwork, which was originally blue in color but was changed to purple by me. That didn’t work and I was not satisfied as usual. And after exercising to the dance tunes from an old cassette tape with my parental units in the late afternoon, I ran upstairs again.

    This time I proceeded to redo the background color of the ‘body’ from ‘Dark Weak Blue’ (#333366) to ‘Pale Weak Blue’ (#CCCCFF). This meant the font color for the body, blockquote and menu had to be darker — the color black (#000000). The font color for the text decoration is ‘Light Hard Violet’ (#9933FF) to make the various links to the widgets located below this ‘Chaos Theory’ theme stand out more; since the text size is very small.

    Then I had to increase both the font size to 60px and margin to 30px (of the ‘#header h1’) because I wanted the title to my weblog to stand out. This sort of looked right but the ‘blue rose’ image I tried out from yesterday didn’t seem right and appeared quite pixilated. I wanted a clearer ‘background-image’ to upload (of the #header).

    So I went to the Microsoft website and downloaded a copy of a clipart showing a pink heart, which I also changed to a more bluish tone instead. And then I uploaded that one as my new image header. This was prettier, too and best ‘centered’ for an even effect throughout the top. I changed the color of both the ‘#blog-description’ and ‘#header’ to ‘Dark Weak Blue’ (#333366).

    Happily, the text header was more readable against the whiter background of the purplish, blue hearts but barely the blog description below. The increase in the margins (first) made the increase of the ‘font-size’ possible, not the other way around as I have discovered on my own as part of my ongoing cross-training of CSS html programming by myself.

    Later on this evening and after dinner of lima beans and very salty canton noodles made by ‘Maw’, I resumed my weblog project. I had saved my newest page: ‘Home’. But I didn’t know how I wanted this to look. The online samples I found during my general searches online gave me very little ideas. This time I had to really use my big brain and come up with something creative.

    So I opted to creating this ‘Home’ page with a few words of greeting and a thumbnail photo to one of my old photos in black and white. This photo makes me look like an agent with those dark sunglasses on. I liked the ‘halo’ effect around my head, which was really the light from the tall halogen lamp located behind me at the time I took this ‘self-portrait’ with my digital camera.

    Copyright © 2008 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20080229-Tweaking Again

    Today, I’ve done nothing but modify my weblog. It’s all I could do while waiting for nothing as the days pass by like the clouds that didn’t appear for today’s mostly clear blue skies. I attended morning mass, had breakfast at McDonald’s restaurant, shopped for grocery at the DeCA in Moffett Field, CA and ate only a banana for lunch.

    I ran upstairs and tried adding a ‘background-image’ of an old clip-art from Microsoft of a scrollwork, which was originally blue in color but was changed to purple by me. That didn’t work and I was not satisfied as usual. And after exercising to the dance tunes from an old cassette tape with my parental units in the late afternoon, I ran upstairs again.

    This time I proceeded to redo the background color of the ‘body’ from ‘Dark Weak Blue’ (#333366) to ‘Pale Weak Blue’ (#CCCCFF). This meant the font color for the body, blockquote and menu had to be darker — the color black (#000000). The font color for the text decoration is ‘Light Hard Violet’ (#9933FF) to make the various links to the widgets located below this ‘Chaos Theory’ theme stand out more; since the text size is very small.

    Then I had to increase both the font size to 60px and margin to 30px (of the ‘#header h1’) because I wanted the title to my weblog to stand out. This sort of looked right but the ‘blue rose’ image I tried out from yesterday didn’t seem right and appeared quite pixilated. I wanted a clearer ‘background-image’ to upload (of the #header).

    So I went to the Microsoft website and downloaded a copy of a clipart showing a pink heart, which I also changed to a more bluish tone instead. And then I uploaded that one as my new image header. This was prettier, too and best ‘centered’ for an even effect throughout the top. I changed the color of both the ‘#blog-description’ and ‘#header’ to ‘Dark Weak Blue’ (#333366).

    Happily, the text header was more readable against the whiter background of the purplish, blue hearts but barely the blog description below. The increase in the margins (first) made the increase of the ‘font-size’ possible, not the other way around as I have discovered on my own as part of my ongoing cross-training of CSS html programming by myself.

    Later on this evening and after dinner of lima beans and very salty canton noodles made by ‘Maw’, I resumed my weblog project. I had saved my newest page: ‘Home’. But I didn’t know how I wanted this to look. The online samples I found during my general searches online gave me very little ideas. This time I had to really use my big brain and come up with something creative.

    So I opted to creating this ‘Home’ page with a few words of greeting and a thumbnail photo to one of my old photos in black and white. This photo makes me look like an agent with those dark sunglasses on. I liked the ‘halo’ effect around my head, which was really the light from the tall halogen lamp located behind me at the time I took this ‘self-portrait’ with my digital camera.

    Copyright © 2008 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20080229-Orgone Bickerings

    Labeling losers with bullshits and lies
    Swatting at those wall sticking flies
    Denying the truth by ‘Don’ who slanders
    Keeping the suck ups and orgone panders
    Extorting and controlling those who don’t belong
    Removing those who are wrong and strong

    Their ‘love and light’ means nothing at all
    A place in heaven through an anonymous call
    ‘Mews’ and my pic of that ‘evil reptilian whore’
    ‘Amero’ and ‘EU’, the dollar no more
    Get out of my way! I need scientific proof!
    Moving orgone and the CIA spoof.

    Hey! This is another short poem about the agents — us female bitches, including clueless ‘Christians’, prolific gifters, healthy healers, wily witches, etc…

    Copyright © 2008 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20080228-Pete’s Moronic

    To ‘Shrimpsei’ and his disingenuous forums:
    It’s about those Moronic quorums.
    Google ‘Pete’ and his last name of kin —
    The Fiji author of my video, upload grin.
    TPTB are pissing me off!
    Laughing and spitting with their cough
    Related to each other, interbreeding kinds
    He too is responsible for reading our minds.

    Hey! It’s a short poem ranting about unfinished business.

    Copyright © 2008 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20080228-Editing Weblog

    Since the fat one and his cahoots (who are typical like greedy politicians lying through their teeth for seven years) are holding me hostage with the unknown until next week, I have made more modifications to my paid CSS stylesheet to keep me busy in the meantime. I couldn’t stand the blank look on the top of each page and wanted a ‘Custom Header’.

    Once again, I remembered the faq.wordpress.com website, clicked on one of the forum threads and learned how to add a ‘background-image’. I found one old photo from online many years ago of a blue rose, which appears on Ryan’s website, by the way. A ‘main representative’ of this movement didn’t like me making contact with these associates at their level.

    Anyway, I centered both the image and text, which I had to change from bright blue to basic white because the color of the rose had almost the same color as the text. I tried ‘background-repeat: no repeat’ with ‘text-align: right’ for the header; but the photo stayed to the left while the text was all by itself to the right. I don’t know how to ‘shrink’ the image.

    Copyright © 2008 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20080228-Tweaking Again

    Since the fat one and his cahoots (who are typical like greedy politicians lying through their teeth for seven years) are holding me hostage with the unknown until next week, I have made more modifications to my paid CSS stylesheet to keep me busy in the meantime. I couldn’t stand the blank look on the top of each page and wanted a ‘Custom Header’.

    Once again, I remembered the faq.wordpress.com website, clicked on one of the forum threads and learned how to add a ‘background-image’. I found one old photo from online many years ago of a blue rose, which appears on Ryan’s website, by the way. A ‘main representative’ of this movement didn’t like me making contact with these associates at their level.

    Anyway, I centered both the image and text, which I had to change from bright blue to basic white because the color of the rose had almost the same color as the text. I tried ‘background-repeat: no repeat’ with ‘text-align: right’ for the header; but the photo stayed to the left while the text was all by itself to the right. I don’t know how to ‘shrink’ the image.

    Copyright © 2008 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20080228-Editing Weblog

    After receiving another stupid call delaying the inevitable from the fat one a few minutes ago, I managed to edit my CSS stylesheet the whole of this morning. The day is clear blue skies and beautiful and the white flowers of our apricot tree is blooming since last week. His weather overseas, however, is rainy and gloomy.

    The original ‘Chaos Theory’ was too dark and black. With the paid upgrade, we administrators have the ability to modify the layout to our liking but we cannot do anything with the elements. One reason why people like me get easily bored with one theme is that we cannot seem to personalize the layout the way we want from the color, size, text, etc. There are more features that are lacking in other themes that I cannot find elsewhere with this current one.

    The first modification was centering the header, enlarging the font size to 24px and changing the text colors to blue and gray instead of black and white. Second, I expanded the width of the entry content (floating right) from 510 to 580 and reduced the width of the entry meta (floating left) from 250 to 180.

    But this meant the entry title had to be reduced from 24px to 20px in order for the posting information from overlapping the content entries to the right. I reviewed some of my older posts and found the sentences with the longest lines to one of my poems are not wrapped around to the next line! I love this version better.

    A poem is not simply words but a visual art form that could be compromised by the default themes that have narrow columns. And I don’t like small fonts either! It hard on the eyes for us more myopic individuals and I don’t always remember to zoom into the pages. I would prefer to read what is already presented by the bloggers.

    Now that I’ve finished editing most of the areas of my weblog site that I feel needed improvement, I am able to blog once again. This morning’s breakfast of pancakes I made the size of one’s palm and cleaning up thereafter are minor distractions for blogging upstairs in my computer room. I do hope this time current theme is a keeper because, frankly, I grow weary of looking at the same old theme.

    Unfortunately there is this annoying drawback: I cannot copy and paste a ‘normal’ sized version for my archives onto a word document in case the WordPress.com server eliminates my hard work. I would have to go back and darken the light text in order to read the small print. But regardless of this small sacrifice of convenience, I am proud to say that I’m happy for the time being.

    Copyright © 2008 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20080228-Tweaking Again

    After receiving another stupid call delaying the inevitable from the fat one a few minutes ago, I managed to edit my CSS stylesheet the whole of this morning. The day is clear blue skies and beautiful and the white flowers of our apricot tree is blooming since last week. His weather overseas, however, is rainy and gloomy.

    The original ‘Chaos Theory’ was too dark and black. With the paid upgrade, we administrators have the ability to modify the layout to our liking but we cannot do anything with the elements. One reason why people like me get easily bored with one theme is that we cannot seem to personalize the layout the way we want from the color, size, text, etc. There are more features that are lacking in other themes that I cannot find elsewhere with this current one.

    The first modification was centering the header, enlarging the font size to 24px and changing the text colors to blue and gray instead of black and white. Second, I expanded the width of the entry content (floating right) from 510 to 580 and reduced the width of the entry meta (floating left) from 250 to 180.

    But this meant the entry title had to be reduced from 24px to 20px in order for the posting information from overlapping the content entries to the right. I reviewed some of my older posts and found the sentences with the longest lines to one of my poems are not wrapped around to the next line! I love this version better.

    A poem is not simply words but a visual art form that could be compromised by the default themes that have narrow columns. And I don’t like small fonts either! It hard on the eyes for us more myopic individuals and I don’t always remember to zoom into the pages. I would prefer to read what is already presented by the bloggers.

    Now that I’ve finished editing most of the areas of my weblog site that I feel needed improvement, I am able to blog once again. This morning’s breakfast of pancakes I made the size of one’s palm and cleaning up thereafter are minor distractions for blogging upstairs in my computer room. I do hope this time current theme is a keeper because, frankly, I grow weary of looking at the same old theme.

    Unfortunately there is this annoying drawback: I cannot copy and paste a ‘normal’ sized version for my archives onto a word document in case the WordPress.com server eliminates my hard work. I would have to go back and darken the light text in order to read the small print. But regardless of this small sacrifice of convenience, I am proud to say that I’m happy for the time being.

    Copyright © 2008 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20080227-Purple Color

    Hehehe! I made use of my upgrade service of the ‘CSS Stylesheet Editor’ under the ‘Presentation’ tab within my account. I definitely didn’t like the dark and black color swatches and decided to try out PURPLE! So after playing around with the webmaster’s color palette, I narrowed down the choices to the closet four purple colors along the same row, starting with ‘Dark Weak Blue’ to ‘Medium Weak Blue’ to ‘Light Weak Blue’ and ending with ‘Pale Weak Blue’. These were only for the ‘background’ and they work well with the ‘default’ light blue text color.

    For each ‘background’, I used the ‘Dark Weak Blue’ color for the ‘body’ and the ‘.side’; the ‘Medium Weak Blue’ for the ‘#header’ and ‘blockquote,.archive-meta’, the ‘Light Weak Blue’ for the ‘#globalnav #menu li a’ and ‘#footer’; and lastly the ‘Pale Blue Color’ for the ‘#sidebar’. And now I’m temporarily happy and I continue to figure out if this current theme is a keeper.

    Copyright © 2008 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20080227-Flu Shots?

    This article is about how the Federal government is essentially ‘forcing’ flu shots containing mercury (such as thimerosal) and aluminum (like the material we drink from the soda cans) upon school children. No child should have to be submitted to unknown and foreign substance that could be detrimental or deadly to the lives of more sensitive systems.

    I believe this is a blatant move by our own government and its failure to protect its citizen from these poisonous injections manufactured by the profit-seeking bio-pharmaceuticals. I am appalled this practice would continue without more studies to prove autism is directly related to vaccinations. I wonder what the real motive behind this nefarious activity is.

    And now there would be this universal health care that Hillary is pushing as her agenda by forcing us poor folks to buy health insurance that we may never use until when needed in case of emergency purposes ONLY. I do not understand why politics would penalize (or jail) those parents who are disabled, jobless or penniless and simply cannot afford to comply with the likes of these bureaucrats.

    Copyright © 2008 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

    RE: [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/27/BA8RV9QB8.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea]

    Federal panel recommends flu shots to schoolchildren
    Sabin Russell, Chronicle Medical Writer
    Wednesday, February 27, 2008

    (02-27) 16:49 PST SAN FRANCISCO — A federal health panel on Wednesday voted unanimously to recommend flu shots for all school-age children, a move that will compel private insurers to cover the cost of such vaccinations and require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to make the vaccine available for those who can’t afford it.

    The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices adopted the recommendation at the urging of the federal agency’s own staff, which contends that flu shots will both protect the health of schoolchildren and reduce the risk for parents and grandparents who often contract influenza from them.

    “I’m very excited about this,” said Dr. Carol Baker, a member of the advisory panel and President of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. “As a pediatrician, it is my responsibility to protect my patients from influenza.”

    The committee, voting 11-0, recommended that flu shots be provided to children six-months to 18 years of age – a decision that would take effect in time for the next flu vaccine season beginning in the fall, provided enough vaccine is available. The committee said the recommendation must be fully implemented by the 2009-10 influenza season.

    Until now, pediatric flu shots were recommended only for children under six years old.

    The decision adds about 30 million schoolchildren to the ranks of those who qualify for vaccination, and doctors estimate that about 7 million to 8 million of them will get the shots, or the nasal vaccine, next year.

    There are about 60 million school-age children in the United States, and about half of them already qualified for flu shots because they had asthma or some other health condition that put them at risk, or they lived in a household where someone else was especially threatened by the virus.

    Diane McGowan, a business analyst from Nazareth, Pennsylvania, said she wishes the decision had been made five years ago. On Feb. 9, 2005, her 15-year-old son Martin died of complications from flu, less than 24 hours after he came down with symptoms of fever and fatigue. The high school baseball player, who had a hard workout trying to make the team, quickly developed a rare condition that caused his leg muscles to harden and cut off his blood supply. He died on the operating table.

    “This vote is monumental. I hope it gets the message out that the influenza virus is not a cold. It’s not something to take lightly,” said McGowan, a member of Families Fighting Flu, an organization of parents who lost children to the virus. The group receives financial support from flu shot makers.

    The decision was criticized, however, by parents who believe that a mercury preservative, found in adult flu shots and once common in childhood vaccines, is responsible for rising rates of autism in the country.

    “The CDC continues to minimize the dangers of injecting mercury and aluminum into our kids,” said Rita Shreffler, executive director of the National Autism Association. “I’m living with the results as so many other parents are and it’s just horrific.” Shreffler is the mother of two children, aged 14 and 15, who developed autism at the age of 18 months after routine vaccinations.

    Flu shot supporters said multiple studies have failed to find any link between the preservative, thimerosal, and autism. However, the CDC ordered it removed from required childhood vaccines eight years ago, and California law bans it from flu vaccine given to pregnant women or children under three.

    E-mail Sabin Russell at srussell@sfchronicle.com.

  • 20080227-Editing Weblog

    I’m sorry, folks: But I got bored with the ‘Digg 3’ theme already because it is lacking some of my viewing essentials to make me a happy blogger. As a result, I am currently trying out the ‘Chaos Theory’, which is mostly dark and black. Besides the deeper colors being hard on my eyes, I like the bottom widgets of two equidistant columns.

    These columns allow the extra space I needed in order to view each line item within each widget clearly. And unlike the basic two column themes, which have narrower columns, there are no more annoying word wraps to the next lines. Plus, the unordered list items are differentiated by these nice circles, especially for both the RSS widget and Text widget.

    For example, my ‘copyright’ widget can now be read in one line. My preferred located is at the bottom most section of the left sidebar. This piece of information appears at anytime in case I forget to publish my ‘copyright’ information for each entry.  Some themes don’t have the bottom widgets, which seem to disappear when only one post is viewed.

    When doing general searches within my blogs, I’d like to see the full blog entries as well as the post information. This current theme allows me to see the blog entries in its entirety to the right side of the page and the post information to the left somewhere towards the beginning of each entry. The ‘time’ stamp appears for both ‘Posts’ and ‘Pages’.

    Although the font size for the widgets and post information is quite small, the text color of blue against the black background has a cooling effect for reading. The font size, font type and font color for the body of my blogs appears ‘normal’ enough to read. The articles can be read without the distraction of those left and right sidebars getting in the way.

    Unfortunately, there are still some drawbacks. I want my ‘Custom Header’ of a white cloud formation against clear blue skies somewhere towards the top. Furthermore, the space in between each < p > tag is too close together to read. Now, I’d have to use the right scrollbar and the offending mouse more often than my keyboard in order scroll down faster.

    Anyway, this is my new theme for now and I know this won’t last long either. The point is that no matter what the appearance of any new skin a blog may take on, the contents will pretty much remain the same.

    Copyright © 2008 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.

  • 20080227-Tweaking Again

    I’m sorry, folks: But I got bored with the ‘Digg 3’ theme already because it is lacking some of my viewing essentials to make me a happy blogger. As a result, I am currently trying out the ‘Chaos Theory’, which is mostly dark and black. Besides the deeper colors being hard on my eyes, I like the bottom widgets of two equidistant columns.

    These columns allow the extra space I needed in order to view each line item within each widget clearly. And unlike the basic two column themes, which have narrower columns, there are no more annoying word wraps to the next lines. Plus, the unordered list items are differentiated by these nice circles, especially for both the RSS widget and Text widget.

    For example, my ‘copyright’ widget can now be read in one line. My preferred located is at the bottom most section of the left sidebar. This piece of information appears at anytime in case I forget to publish my ‘copyright’ information for each entry.  Some themes don’t have the bottom widgets, which seem to disappear when only one post is viewed.

    When doing general searches within my blogs, I’d like to see the full blog entries as well as the post information. This current theme allows me to see the blog entries in its entirety to the right side of the page and the post information to the left somewhere towards the beginning of each entry. The ‘time’ stamp appears for both ‘Posts’ and ‘Pages’.

    Although the font size for the widgets and post information is quite small, the text color of blue against the black background has a cooling effect for reading. The font size, font type and font color for the body of my blogs appears ‘normal’ enough to read. The articles can be read without the distraction of those left and right sidebars getting in the way.

    Unfortunately, there are still some drawbacks. I want my ‘Custom Header’ of a white cloud formation against clear blue skies somewhere towards the top. Furthermore, the space in between each < p > tag is too close together to read. Now, I’d have to use the right scrollbar and the offending mouse more often than my keyboard in order scroll down faster.

    Anyway, this is my new theme for now and I know this won’t last long either. The point is that no matter what the appearance of any new skin a blog may take on, the contents will pretty much remain the same.

    Copyright © 2008 by Fluffy von der Flynn. All rights reserved.