Flynn's Paws: My Thoughts, My Gripes

Tag: prose

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

  • 20091113-Editing Tags

    Heard over airwaves (radio or TV) a few days ago why not to use hatred or descriptive words towards a person but okay to group. So I changed tags to end in ‘s’.

  • 20091113-Collections Calling

    Got collections call from Chase cards @ 310-620-8006 on 11/12 @ 2:15pm to call back 1-866-92-6697 8am-12midnite EST. Price to pay for NOTHING YET by TPTB, Pete!

  • 20091112-Old Theme

    Well, I’m using the `Connections` theme with 11 widgets for free here at WordPress.com. There are no changes made to the theme’s CSS stylesheet.

    Why? As mentioned in my previous blog entry, my weblog looked messed up via the Internet Explorer and probably from constantly tweaking my paid `Custom CSS` upgrade.

    And because one referrer is from an educational website for children, I MUST keep the contents of my weblog clean. That means more humor and less rant! Damn!

    In addition, this theme is a good way to show off my interest in orgone. With a classic, two column theme of cream and green colors, there are three widgets of orgone-related images. I’ve already received three views for two of these three images this day.

    Here is the current order to the widgets:

    • Image: Welcome back!
    • RSS Links: Subscribe now!
    • Search: Search weblog
    • Pages: Main menu
    • Image: Dorkboy
    • Image: Orgone
    • Image: Readings
    • Image: Want to help?
    • Akismet: Spam blocked
    • Blog Stats: Blog stats
    • Text: Various links

    In order to view the sidebar widgets, please click the `Home` page. Thank you.

    You may refer to my previous blog entry – `20091108-Old Theme` to find out why I like to keep this current `Connections` theme here at WordPress.com.

  • 20091112-Old Theme

    Bah! The Internet Explorer browser burped out my preferred `Dusk` theme here at WordPress.com. So I ended up activating the `Connections` theme of cream and green, the mean machine.

  • 20091111-New Widget!

    I just discovered a new WordPress.com widget called `Blog Subscriptions`.

    Add your todays and fill out the following fields to the `Blog Subscriptions` widget for your sidebar.

    Widget title:

    Email Subscription

    Optional text to display to logged in WordPress.com users:

    Click to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

    Optional text to display to non-WordPress.com users:

    Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

    Subscription Button:

    Sign me up!

    Addendum: Read the following WordPress.com article on `Blog Subscription Widget` to `get started`.

  • 20091108-Old Theme

    Sheesh! After a few hours with the `Misty` theme by Sadish, I’m trying another free theme here at WordPress.com:

    Connections by Patricia Müller

    A super classy two-column theme with widgets and a customizable header.

    Tags: custom-header, green, two-columns, fixed-width, right-sidebar, widgets, sticky-post, light, rtl-language-support

    Personal PROs:

    • Customer header sporting a cloud formation with a smile.
    • Tagline underneath the blog title.
    • Warm colors of yellow, cream and green.
    • Top navigation bar.
    • A cross-hair like fleur-de-lys image as a list-style.
    • Meta data all near the top of the post-title element.
    • Time stamp viewable on single view mode.
    • No sidebar on single view mode.
    • Post entries fully viewable (without time stamp of course)!
    • .wp-caption element stable for both content (pages and posts) and sidebar.
    • Longest header (Recommended Reading) barely in one line!
    • Image of  `right pointing guillemet` as a :before element to li, ol, ul items in sidebar.
    • Gray-colored image of LARGE double quotes for `blockquote` element.
    • Nice double squiggle curves located underneath each post entry.

    Personal CONs:

    • Time stamp viewable in single mode.
    • No sub-pages feature like the `Misty` theme by Sadish.

    NOTE to self: This blog entry has been changed to reflect the STANDARD TIME (UTC-8) of 11:15pm on Sunday, 11/08/2009! Dammit!

  • 20091108-Old Theme

    Well, I trying yet another free theme here at WordPress.com:

    MistyLook by Sadish

    A two column white theme with top-level page navigation and large custom header.

    Tags: custom-header, two-columns, fixed-width, rtl-language-support, white, light, right-sidebar, widgets, sticky-post

    Personal PROs:

    • Top navigation bar near header.
    • Tagline underneath blog title near header.
    • Search form near header.
    • Feed subscription near header.
    • Custom header featuring a cloud formation with a face.
    • Cool colors of white or cream.
    • .wp-caption stable for images in contents (page and posts) and in sidebars.
    • Narrow column look for screen resolutions at 800 by 600 pixels.
    • Gray-colored image of double quotes for the blockquote element.
    • Warm font colors of green, brown and dotted borders for the bottom of links.
    • Square image of green color as the list style.
    • Sub-pages listed on the bottom of text.

    Personal CONs:

    • No time stamp for up-to-date snapshot of blogs entered.

    I didn’t have to edit my paid Custom CSS upgrade. The only work around is copying the time-date stamp of the `edit.php` and pasting the publish data into the slug field for each post, of which only six has been modified.

    For example, the permalink for this particular post is supposed to be defaulted as:

    But if I go back the second time and after saving the original publication, the new slug would appear as:

    That means the time/date stamp would be published on 2009/11/08 6:29:22 PM (or 20091108-62922-pm).

    Get it? Good!

  • 20091108-Friggin Bored!

    I’m bored again! The whole weekend was staying indoors while removing old files; deleting old programs and editing my paid Custom CSS upgrade here at WordPress.com. I’ve removed feeds that were getting stale, too. This is to make my computer load and run faster. I hate slowness! I hate being bored!

  • 20091108-Old Theme

    Crap! I went back to the old theme here at WordPress.com:

    Sandbox 0.6.1 by Andy Skelton & Scott Allan Wallick

    A theme with powerful, semantic CSS selectors and the ability to add new skins.

     Tags: white, left-sidebar, theme-options, widgets, two-columns, one-column, three-columns, right-sidebar, flexible-width, microformats, rtl-language-support

    Why? It’s because the puss that is Internet Explorer keeps messing up my sidebars! It’s that pop-up window: Security Warning! It’s quite annoying.

    But with `Sandbox 0.6.1` the appearance is stable enough to view under both FireFox and Internet Explorer, which I hate.

    Will I keep this theme? Probably not. Will I stop editing my paid Custom CSS upgrade? Probably not. Will I stop blogging anytime soon? Yup: It’s getting boring again.

  • 20091108-Old Theme

    After only one day, I switched from the `Fjords04` theme back to the `Dusk` theme. Why? The former theme looked paler in color and busy, too; while the latter theme, my favorite one, looked more colorful and I ideally thought of the KISS principle – Kiss It Simple, Stupid!

    That describes me as being stupid – blind, deaf and mute. It’s a lonely world to be a shut-in. This explains why I continue to blog while unemployed and homeless. It’s no fun being a walking plant, with flesh in place of leaves, of blood instead of water and although I love being indoors, it’s safer being simple and private, using anonymity as a vehicle to express self to an audience of strangers.

  • 20091107-Old Theme

    Yippie! After editing my paid Custom CSS upgrade, I’ve found the free theme here at WordPress.com to be satisfactory. Check it out, now!

    Fjords04 by Peterandrej

    A 4 column theme with split custom header.

    Tags: four-columns, custom-header, rtl-language-support, right-sidebar, sticky-post, widgets, fixed-width

    Personal PROS:

    • Dual customer header sporting a cloud formation (i.e. sylph and pals) appears for both contents (and pagina) elements above and three sidebars below.
    • Tagline shows the reverse spelling to the blog title.
    • Cool colors are sea breeze blues and greens.
    • Stamps for both time and date shown appear for both single view and archive view.
    • Visibility of blog entries are shown in entirety (and not as excerpts) for both single view and archive view.
    • Three sidebars are narrow and just wide enough for clearer presentations
      • Sidebar 1 (or left) element showing primary widgets of Images.
      • Sidebar 2 (or middle) element showing my long list of blogroll (or links).
      • Sidebar 3 (or right) element showing widgets for re-searching weblog.
    • Content (and pagina) elements are shown as one page (similar to the `Day Dream` theme) when width is set to 530px.
    • Meta information are show with time/date stamps first, followed by categories and tags.
    • Wrapper element with width of 760px works for screen resolutions set to 800 by 600 pixels.

    Personal CONs:

    • NOTHING (except no top/navigation bar with drop down menu feature).

    As a result, I’m keeping this theme.

  • 20091107-Old Theme

    Well, I’m trying yet again another free theme here at WordPress.com:

    Fjords04 by Peterandrej

    A 4 column theme with split custom header.

    Tags: four-columns, custom-header, rtl-language-support, right-sidebar, sticky-post, widgets, fixed-width

    Personal PROs:

    • Posts fully viewable (and not as excerpts) via archives mode.
    • Time/date stamps for post entries.
    • Custom header and tagline.
    • Soft colors of seabreeze blue and green.
    • Four columns for:
      • Contents (posts and pages).
      • Various widgets (mostly Images).
      • Long list of blogroll links.
      • Various widgets for re-searching weblog.

    Personal CONs:

    • Small fonts but it’s readable.
    • Four columns too narrow for long sentences in bulleted lists.
    • Usage of horizontal scroll bar to view right of side of weblog for screen resolution set to 800 by 600 pixels.
    • Width perfect for 1024 by 768 pixels.