Flynn's Paws: My Thoughts, My Gripes

Month: September 2008

  • 20080906-Signed Books

    Yippie! I’m proud to announce the successful addition of a ‘text widget’ placed into my sidebar. It contains scanned images (via my Canon MP170 Series Printer) of the front cover to each of the four books by Don Bradley.

    The title of the ‘text widget’ is ‘Signed books by DB’. I am not sure if I wanted to place his full name. But y’all could figure that out by scrolling downward to view each front cover. As a matter of fact, I’ve collected all four signed books. I’m a groupie fan of DB, by the way. Hehe!

    The ‘href=’ code links back to the author’s weblog site at Uwantsun! Orgone and Books. (It is proper to provide photo credit to the source, of course.) The ‘mouse over’ information shows the title of the book followed by the author’s full name. The bottom caption is the publishing information followed by the year of publication.

    So, this is my small way of celebrating yesterday’s (or rather this early morning’s discovery) of the ‘div style’ code to creating, vertical scrollbars. For the curious, the dimensions to my scrollbar code if this ‘text widget’ is 200px wide by 150px high.

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

  • 20080906-Scrollbar Haha

    Okay, I get it! It`s a great brouhaha! I see more WordPress.com forum members getting carried away with their `div style` codes for scrolling in response to the thread on the `Sandbox` theme. I was thinking to myself earlier today if I could buy a book about CSS and `div` at our local Fry`s Electronics or Barnes and Nobles bookstores.

    If the Automattic, Inc. team wants to know why my `Support` request sounds technical, it`s because of my previous employer. You may want to Google my `original` domain name and search under the `Images` link. In one of the images, I am wearing a white T-shirt. You will understand my rants filed under that tag of `work` for the curious minded.

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  • 20080906-Editing Weblog

    After learning how to use the ‘div style’ code for making vertical scrolls to my post (or page) entries, I’ve selected another theme. This time it’s ‘Almost Spring’ by Becca Wei. The color sheme is green and orange. It works well with a screen resolution of 800 by 600 pixels but better with 1024 x 768 pixels. Although the lower resolution is better on my eyes, the next screen resolution works better with WordPress.com. No wonder I kept using the bottom scroll!

    Anyway, there are only two compromises when selecting my newest theme. The ‘Previous entries’ or the ‘Next entries’ selections are located out of view at the bottom of the entries for the screen resolution of 800 by 600 pixels. And when the ‘meta’ information located underneath the title of the post gets too long, it moves another line. This makes the appearance of the blog jump lower by one line.

    I’ll keep not only the screen resolution of 1024 x 768 pixel but this newest theme because it has some color, along with the preferred time/date stamp to each of my entries. As a result, I’ve removed redundant widgets and kept only four: search, text (for the main menu), stats and spam. I wonder if I should update all my blog entries with this new vertical scrolls code.

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

  • 20080906-Tweaking Again

    After learning how to use the ‘div style’ code for making vertical scrolls to my post (or page) entries, I’ve selected another theme. This time it’s ‘Almost Spring’ by Becca Wei. The color sheme is green and orange. It works well with a screen resolution of 800 by 600 pixels but better with 1024 x 768 pixels. Although the lower resolution is better on my eyes, the next screen resolution works better with WordPress.com. No wonder I kept using the bottom scroll!

    Anyway, there are only two compromises when selecting my newest theme. The ‘Previous entries’ or the ‘Next entries’ selections are located out of view at the bottom of the entries for the screen resolution of 800 by 600 pixels. And when the ‘meta’ information located underneath the title of the post gets too long, it moves another line. This makes the appearance of the blog jump lower by one line.

    I’ll keep not only the screen resolution of 1024 x 768 pixel but this newest theme because it has some color, along with the preferred time/date stamp to each of my entries. As a result, I’ve removed redundant widgets and kept only four: search, text (for the main menu), stats and spam. I wonder if I should update all my blog entries with this new vertical scrolls code.

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

  • 20080906-Scrollbar Sickness

    Yippie! After sampling the codes from the WordPress.com forum threads on `scrollbars`, I`ve learned how to add a vertical scrollbar to my `pages`! I wanted a more `static` appearance of book pages without having to move the `main`, vertical scrollbar of the internet browser doesn`t up and down. If y`all have the time, please take another gander at the `Main Menu` section of my sidebar to the right of each page (or post).

    Only this time, the vertical scrollbar is part of the post entry. Going forward, I shall annoy my readers by placing vertical scrollbars to my `posts`, starting with this one! The readers will be encouraged (or annoyed) to scroll down for each and every word, sentences and paragraphs that I`ve pain-stakingly entered with my two hard-working hands, including fingers and everything else that requires deeps thoughts from my simple mind of my big brain to electronic media (i.e. blogging).

    Its a great brouhaha! I`m happy with my newest discovery for my weblog site in spite of the `dark ones (or TPTB).

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  • 20080905-Damn Tools

    G-d dammit, ‘Pete’! Why do you cheat?
    ‘Oh!’ I said. ‘Be nice’ he said.
    I’m working hard – his pyramid card.
    Reptoids everywhere! Level and square!
    Bad associations: freedom foundations.

    Libya, Samoa, Iran, Iraq;
    Paying off the lawyers’ back;
    Scotland and England, New Zealand, too;
    Dispositions rising and BK sue.
    China, Hawaii, Japan, The Hague;
    Nothing like deceitful, lying vague.
    Indonesia, Bahrain and Mali, too;
    Dagon it, ‘Pete’! Your Nigerian crew!

    The list goes on… Nobody will hear.
    Gun toting citizens to secession’s cheer!
    Alas, the pawns smell like sewer rats.
    Selling their lands with earmark fats!

    Author’s note: I cannot seem to rhyme well nowadays. But there is more truth out there than the players are willing to disclose to the scrutiny of the public and by the well-paid, spin doctors of the media.

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

  • 20080905-Dream Journal

    I awoke from my afternoon dream around 04:30PM. In my dream, I dreamt of myself getting out of the same bed I was taking a nap. My eyes were still closed as I scooted to the right side of the bed. I even felt my feet touch the carpet below. I found myself jumping up and down and screaming at ‘Pete’. I thought to myself while screaming, ‘Dammit, ‘Pete’! Where are you? Where is my phone call?’ Then I woke up and made my phone call around 04:33PM.

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

  • 20080904-Automattically Happy

    Yeah, I like the quick responses from Automattic, Inc. via e-mails. Recently, I’ve been sending out ‘Support’ issues regarding bugs in the codes, suggestions for paid upgrades and other improvements to be reviewed on a regular basis. ‘Nick’ is cool and so are the other fine folks who helped resolve my concerns.

    Anyway, one of my samples included the weblink to the dedicated blogger’s ‘products’ page. I had a problem with the data disappearing after the colon ( : ) character under the ‘ alt = ‘ attribute and the ‘ title = ‘ attribute for the image of a ‘Lifeforce Dodecahedron’. You know, alt = “Image source: [whatever link goes here].

    Overall, WordPress.com has lots of nice, free features. But I really want to control the environment of my weblog site and would be willing to pay for the features here. It’s just the technical knowledge that I lack that prevents me from benefiting with self-hosting.

    I’m hoping for more themes or plug-ins but due to security reasons, WordPress.com won’t allow such features. But over at WordPress.org, there is more at stake like spamming and other headaches, which I’m unwilling to undertake at the moment.

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

  • 20080904-Fire Browser

    Waahh! I just downloaded and installed this Mozilla Firefox (version 3.0.1) browser and cannot get the ‘fonts’ to behave like I’m used to seeing with the I.E.7. browser. The fonts look skinnier and lighter and sometimes smaller. I don’t like it! It hurts my eyes!

    Waahh! I went to Tools > Options > Content tab > Fonts & Colors section > Advanced tab and selected ‘Fonts for: Western’; ‘Proportional: Serif’ with Size: 14; ‘Serif: Times New Roman’; ‘Sans-serif: Arial’; and ‘Monospace: Georgia’ with Size: 14′.

    I don’t even know the difference among the Western (IBM-850), (ISO-8859-1) (ISO-8859-15), (MacRoman) and (Windows-1252)! And what are these Unicodes (UTF-16 Big Endian), (UTF-16 LIttle Endian), (UTF-16), (UTF-32 Big Endian), (UTF-32 Little Endian), (UTF-7), and (UTF-8)? Why can’t there be just a ‘one size fits all’?

    I’ve clicked on ‘Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above’. And the pages look all wrong! What I’m seeing is not the same anymore! I’m not a happy camper! I protest this red fox!

    Waahh! I cannot even use my ‘Page Down’ or ‘Page Up’ keys from the keyboard and ended up using the mouse more often than I’m used to performing. Okay, I take it back but it’s not the same!

    I cannot even view my favorite feeds for WM and PWM orgone sites in a nice list format. Instead the articles load up back to the main websites! I could save the subscription to the bookmark either under the menu or toolbar. I don’t get it!

    But the pages load up faster and I have a wider view of the ‘Address’ link located on the very top of the browser. And I’m able to add, move and edit the widgets under the Design section of the Dashboard via WordPress.com. These are the only two positives things I have to say about this browser. Waahh!

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

  • 20080903-In Theory

    If I were a blind person and cannot witness these aerial phenomenons, I would have to say that neither these alleged chemtrails nor contrails exist. Since I still have my other four senses intact, I cannot smell the trails, taste the trails or hear the trails or feel the trails1. I cannot tell if it’s night or day. I cannot tell if it’s high altitude or low altitude cloud formations. I cannot believe either side because both appear believable.

  • 20080903-Lifeforce Works

    Image source: http://uwantson.com/products.html
    An image showing a 'Lifeforce Dodecahedron' from the 'Uwantsun! Orgone and Books' web page.

    For two nights after receiving the ‘Lifeforce Dodecahedron’ from the DB website on 08/08/2008, I received some of the strongest system jolts ever experienced. The series of jolts ‘worked’ not only to clear the rest of my body but especially around the head area where throbbing pain (or rare migraine headaches) of over one month disappeared the very first night.

    I also experienced other noticeable events around my head area in the following nights. One was an energy wave that surrounded my head. It originated from where the miniature globe rested between my right shoulders, near the base of the neck. I had lots of noise inside my head at that time and the sound disappeared after the envelopment of some sort of healing from this orgonite piece.

    While trying to drift off to sleep after midnight this morning, I had more noise inside my head. This was probably due to spending an enormous time in front of the computer and fixing my weblog site to perfection. I guess there is too much ‘on my mind’ and thinking too much by way of inner dialogues of chatter.

    I was thinking about an alien residing on my forehead or whatever pressure exists ‘in between my eyes’. I think I see two almond-shaped, upturned eyes indented on my forehead whenever I would wrinkle my forehead upward. I kept associating this ‘facial feature’ after reading an article via the WW website about how a ‘good’ alien (as per Lilly) appeared on the forehead of a particular V.P.

    So I decided to place the ‘Lifeforce Dodecahedron’ on my forehead. I thought of clearing out that area by imagining its imprisonment or release (whichever the case may be) through and with the orgonite piece. After a few minutes of imagination, the facial muscles around my eyes, upper cheek and bridge of my nose crinkled, almost like a spasm, uncontrollably and quite suddenly to my surprise!

    I don’t remember the globe of resin rolling off my forehead after this morning’s event. But I really believe that this orgonite piece works through and with subtle energy. There are no words to describe my experiences with orgonite.

    I posted an article entitled 20080820-Lifeforce Dodecahedron describing my system jolts and how I could feel the buzzing when holding this orgonite piece in my left palm. There was some pain as I released the object, lying somewhere on my bed, of course.

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  • 20080902-Editing Weblog

    First, thanks to ‘dark ones’ of TPTB, I’ve nothing else to do except perfect my weblog site, which hardly gets anymore visits nowadays. After attending daily mass at our local church and blogging at WordPress.com for over one year, I finally got my web pages in their proper order.

    I modeled my ‘pages’ after this Christian publication. I liked the layout so much that in two days I figured out what the missing ‘page’ was: a cover sheet for my ‘web-book’! Originally, I had placed the elements of a typical book under the parent page of ‘Home’ but felt something wasn’t right.

    I already had a ‘web-book’ page but didn’t know what to do with that one and had deleted the page last week. Now that the ‘web-book’ page is located at the end of my ‘Main Pages’, the Manage > Pages section is cleaner and more logical.

    Without the < !– nextcode — > code, I would not have been able to consolidate the many individual pages of my ‘web-book’ from over five dozen to twenty-four published pages. They are located under three ‘matters’: two fronts, one body and two backs.

    These ‘pages’ are supposed to be static and outside the normal blogging activity. Although I came across responses from some forum members of WordPress.com about not liking static pages (like my front, ‘Home’ page of Dante’s illustration), I like the option. The rests are ‘posts,’ which still contain my rants unfortunately.

    Second, I felt something else wasn’t right with my pages. Yesterday, I had re-created the ‘About’ page to describe this weblog site. But this was not a satisfactory decision. Because my ego is strong, I really wanted to ‘About’ page to describe me, Fluffy von der Flynn.

    I decided to move the ‘author’ data from the ‘Body-matter’ section to the ‘About’ page, which is similar to the ‘FAQ’ page of questions and answers, and then finally created a ‘Profile’ page, which contains a descriptive list view of moi.

    Third, after already creating a longer page describing this weblog site from the ‘About’ page, I decided to paste that data onto the ‘Site map’ page instead. This page is for those readers who click my weblink on the only one referrer, a dedicated blogger.

    Fourth, I had to re-do the non-updating weblinks contained in the static ‘pages’ all over again after moving the ‘web-book’ pages away from the original location of the ‘Home’ page, which now stands alone.

    I think I’m finished messing around with the static, non-updating ‘pages’ of my weblog site after re-creating four vital pages: ‘web-book’, ‘profile’, ‘about’ and ‘site-map’. For those interested in cycling through the logical process of reading my ‘web-book’ (which is by clicking the ‘Next‘ link), below is the series so far:

    Home > Pages > Book > Front stuff > Front matter > Body matter > Back matter > Back stuff > Site map (repeats to Home)

    Home page: This static, front page shows a photo of a couple looking at point of light surrounded by angels. This was inspired by a more colorful version on one website by ‘Madam Mews’, by the way.

    Pages: The numbered list is exactly the way it appears under my Dashboard > Manage > Page section. I’ve discovered the convenience of that vertical line (located above the ‘Enter’ key of my keyboard) to separate weblinks within one line. This page really should be entitled ‘Contents’, which has a letter ‘s’ at the end, unlike my ‘Site map’ page which doesn’t.

    Book: As with some of my other pages, this time I used a clipart image of a smiling, brown-colored books from Microsoft via the word document program. A thought about this page came to my mind while attending this morning’s mass.

    Stuff/Matters: There are lots of articles to read. I get too wordy sometimes. So if y’all have the patience to take a gander, that’s fine with me. Only the ‘Back matter’ is pending.

    Site map: It really should belong to an ‘Index’ page and not a ‘Content’ page but I didn’t bother letting the one and only referrer know because I reckon he’s too busy. By clicking on the two angel image, this takes the readers to the ‘Home’ page.

    Note: There is always the weblinks located somewhere on the bottom navigation bar of each page. By placing the cursor over each weblink, a description is provided.

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