Flynn's Paws: My Thoughts, My Gripes

Tag: prose

A literal technique ‘opposite’ to verse (e.g. poetry).

  • 20090718-Friggin Warm

    High altitude clouds made eating lunch under patio & sleeping past few nites tolerable. Been warm in morn for blowing eucalyptus leaves, defeated by God nature.

  • 20090718-New Tags

    Updated posts tagged as `blogging` and added tags based on WordPress.com Support: `custom css`, `editing css`, `pages`, `posts`, `paging`, `themes`, `appearance`, `sticky`, `static`, `front page`, `visibility`, `media`, `widgets`, `sidebars`, `tags`, `categories`, `split`,`paging`, `template`, etc.

  • 20090717-Editing Weblog

    Added 1px solid #000 borders to the ‘body’, content’, ‘sidebar’ and ‘entrada’. Set ‘white’ background to ‘content’ for frame appearance. Entered my ‘Epitaph’ into the post title. Matched h2 codes for both ‘sticky’ and ‘noticias’. Changed header color to blue of blog title, to match blue skies of background image and blue background hovers.

  • 20090716-Collections Calling

    Got calls: @ 1754pm Unknown ID, @ 1631pm 469-201-4312, @ 1522 814-234-7699, @ 0924am 954-473-7001. Either way, it’s gonna be made public in spite of patience…

  • 20090716-Collections Calling

    Got call @ 0924am from Bankster Of America via 954-473-7001. Yday 510-996-xxxx @ 1853pm @ 408-288-xxxx @ 1016am. Any calls to my cellphone number’s being traced

  • 20090715-Editing Weblog

    I tweaked my pages and still am not satisfied because the current global navigation, top bar doesn’t have a drop-down menu feature for children pages. Only the parent pages are shown:

    1. Welcome
    2. Content
    3. Web book
    4. Posts
    5. FAQ
    6. About me
    7. Contact me
    8. Orgone
    9. Archives
    10. Links

    I’ve just discovered that instead of using the `Default template`, there are two more templates that one could create instead of using the widgets for the side bar:

    • Archives
      • Months in descending order (with the number of posts in parenthesis).
      • Categories in alphabetical order.
    • Links
      • Blogroll links in alphabetical order.

    As a result, the side bar looks cleaner with mostly images and only eight widgets:

    • Gravatar – about moi
    • Text – Signed books by DB
    • Flickr – Orgone and Orgonite
    • Tag cloud – with the `spook` topic as the most
    • SocialVibe – for the whales
    • Blog stats – includes my test
    • Askimet – spam comments blocked
    • Useful links – | Poll | Translate | Top | Feed | Comment | Donate | Disclaimer | Copyright |

    Unfortunately, the images on the sidebar might slow down loading for those readers with slower internet connection.

  • 20090714-Editing Weblog

    Check it out, this time!

    I’m trying out a free WordPress.com theme – Pool by Borja Fernandez:

    A blue two column with tabbed page navigation, custom header, and widgets. Tags: custom-header, blue, two-columns, rtl-language-support, white, light, right-sidebar, widgets, sticky-post, fixed-width

    The color is based on the `Dusk` by beccary:

    A dark blue and grey two-column theme adorned with flowers. Tags: dark, fixed-width, two-columns, right-sidebar, widgets, sticky-post, rtl-language-support

    It’s got all the elements I want:

    • meta information (time/date stamp, category, tag, leave a comment and edit) all bunched up together right underneath the post entry title.
    • a global, navigation top bar towards the top
    • a search bar towards the top
    • a customer header (showing a partial image of a sylph) towards the top
    • narrow width at 780px (for smaller screen resolution of 800 x 600 pixels)
    • left content with right side bar (for old cellphones viewing in text only)
    • order, unordered and listed items (disc, circle, square) appear normally
    • next and previous links work normally

    It’s only missing the tagline:

    • In memory of Fur-Rin-Duh-San! Laughed out loud and died from fun!

    Objectives:

    • Copying entries with ease.
    • Providing most recent (or latest) entries for viewing.
    • Using top navigation bar for main pages that none reads!

    Accomplishment:

    • Organized sidebars.
    • Narrowed blogroll links to just `DorkBoy` until team Automattic figures out if a ‘tree’ or dropdown menu is workable.
    • Re/move redundant page: `Recent posts` from parent to child under `Content` page.


  • 20090714-Friggin Hot

    Sunny, clear blue skies and frigging hot! Blogging upstairs while A/C turned on. Parakeets under cover sleeping. EMO won’t stop flapping her lips @ old timer…

  • 20090714-Editing Weblog

    Not satisfied w/ free themes. Want nav-bar w/ drop-down menu, header w/ custom header & tagline, time-date stamp w/o tag, category for posts only, larger fonts.

  • 20090713-Collections Calling

    Got call from 954-473-7001 @ 1631PM. It’s Bankster of America calling to collect on their money that TPTB still owes moi! ‘Payment Protection’ plans don’t work!

  • 20090712-New Theme

    Been trying out other free themes at WordPress.com: 2-columns, no nav bar, tagline, no datestamp. Made latest posts as front page. Got no satisfaction, again…

  • 20090710-Collections Calling

    Got several collections call from Unknown ID @ 1324PM and 814-234-7699 @ 1623PM. Guess ‘Payment Protection’ plans didn’t stop banksters from collecting their own $.