Flynn's Paws: My Thoughts, My Gripes

Tag: Tools

  • Six pages left..

    So after doing the yard work and after four hours of blogging, I’ve reduced my static pages to only six:

    The decision to create a new “Main Menu” was made out of frustration. I needed to streamline my blog. And so the old pages were moved to posts, which I could tag and attach images! Besides, the sidebar widgets will pick up the Archives, Links and other pages I’ve deleted, like Stats. I am hoping for more SHORTCODES!

  • Make a list of 5 things you’re afraid to write about…

    1. conspiracy

    2. paranormal

    3. politics

    4. relationships

    5. religion

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    http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/make-a-list-of-5-things/

  • Inflating value…

    My late Auntie Hely has a profound sickness in flourishing her stories. For example, if she gave only $20, she would brag to unwitting listeners that she gave $200. The same goes to the banana nutter lady who tells her local parishioners that she gives $500 every week to the coffers but actually was caught giving $5 by an usher.

    As for my random thought this morning during mass, I don’t think the pyramids are 12,000 years old but only 1,200 years. How else are these structures and other antiqities still intact? My calculations were done merely by removing an extra zero from the alleged stories by the “professionals” and their outmoded “scientific” devices for measuring artifacts and other “educated guesses”.

    Posted from WordPress for Android

  • Middle Americans…

    Well those who take the “middle ground” are really left with nothing because they are neither too rich to live without working hard and for a lifetime to pay down/off debt/mortgage nor too poor to qualify for government help/benefits. It’s the intention behind the entitlements/garnishments/bonuses and how these are best utilized, not for sex, drugs, gambling and more money/bling.

    Posted from WordPress for Android

  • Using Zemanta…

    After reducing the clutter of my categories to just one tag “Uncategorized“, I’ve been using the Zemanta tagging feature, which recommends tags based on the analysis of the text. The more I enter text into the content, the better the recommendation. If the content is too short, the Zemanta tagging feature doesn’t work and it only works when blogging through the “Visual” tab and not the “HTML” tag.

    The “Recommended Tags” popped up when I typed the words “Visual” and I clicked the “Apply all” link. Why? Prior to using the Zemanta tagging feature, I had to “guess” which word combination worked best for my topic and I stuck to only ONE WORD, starting with a lower case. I studied the popular tags on WordPress and chose the ones that I liked and found that no one really re/searches “categories” or “tags”.

    Tonight and out of inspiration from John Jr, I converted my “popular” categories (in lower case) to tags and started using Zemanta to “see” how my blogging experience improves, which it should because new “Recommended Tags” keep appearing! Unfortunately, the Zemanta tagging feature is not available on WordPress for Android. I had submitted a “request” to the Support team on this issue.

    So far MOST of my ideas/suggestion have manifested quite a bit but without proper credit or freebees and not even a mug or T-shirt, except maybe a coupon and that was about it. Whatever. Brouhaha!

  • 20111010-Trying Theme

    For the longest time, I really like this one WordPress.com Theme: The Journalist 1.3 by Lucian Marin. But I never really used it.

    “The Journalist is a smart, minimal theme designed for professional journalists.”

    Here are few things about this theme:

    • Has normal-Georgia serif looking fonts.
    • Has black bar to set off the post title above and contents below.
    • Handles un/order lists and quotes nicely.
    • Lacks tagline, time stamp, top nav, templates for Links and Archives.

  • Meaningful blogging…

    I think I’ve gotten “blogging burnout”. I could blog/list everything/all that I’ve experienced and still something is lacking. Is it the appearance of my blog? The content not being focused enough? But that’s where tagging comes along. I don’t know. I don’t care. I want to care but don’t know.

    Posted from WordPress for Android

  • 20111009-Tweaking Again

    I’ve finished tweaking my “front/home” page, which used to be the “contents” page, now renamed “page” properly. Fourteen pages are now linked on the front page. Linking the “page” to itself as the fifteenth page doesn’t make sense. There are currently fifteen (15) static pages.

    I had to shorten each sentence of the main links to fit the narrow width of certain WordPress.com themes, which I keep switching. I found that I needed both templates for Archives and Links. That frees up the bottom/side bar from clutter. Plus I can “track” through my blog stats if these pages are being viewed.

    All the extra pages are now grand/children of the About page. The other parent pages are found as part of the main menu: POSTS, PAGES, LINKS,  and ARCHIVES, which are capitalized, just to differentiate them from the About page.

    There are currently seven widgets in the sidebar. I’ve gotten tired of reading through all the links and decided to reduce the clutter to a more manageable size. Plus it much easier to read, too. My motto: “Simple is better. Bigger is not better.”

  • How do you stay true to yourself?

    To stay true to yourself is to be honest and to do the best despite laws, rules, regulations, norms, mores, memes, etc. If being true to yourself means to act on murderous impulse, then that is another “entity/enemy” within that must be accepted but punished because such acts infringe upon the concept of “free-will“. If being true to yourself means to exercise “free-will” to pursue happiness, life and liberty, then so be it. I think a fair and balanced mind set would be the ultimate truth to yourself.

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    http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2011/10/08/how-do-you-stay-true-to-yourself/

    What does it mean to you to stay true to yourself? Which part of yourself to you think about?

  • Guess my pic…

    Here is a photo of an object. Can you guess what it is?

    ~spider web?
    ~cat hair?
    ~dust bunny?
    ~gray filaments?
    ~silver wires?
    ~white threads?

    image

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  • 20111004-Trying Theme

    Beside being bored the whole day and stayed upstairs in the computer room blogging, I went back to the Twenty-Eleven theme and made the same/following changes:

    • Set “Contents” page as “front/home” page and “Blog” page as “post” page;
    • Used “Showcase Template” for “Contents” page with “Ephemera” widget in “Showcase Sidebar”;
    • Added “Static” widgets on “Footer Area One” and widgets that update on “Footer Area Two”;
    • Added “Links” and “Ephmera” widgets on “Main sidebar”;
    • Changed “Content Layout” from “One-column, no sidebar” to “Content on left”; and
    • Forced myself to be happy with appearance of my weblog site. Aack!

  • 20111004-Trying Theme

    I was switching themes again and got the following message:

    “You are not authorized to use that theme.”

    That wasn’t the only time I got that message. It must be a sign or something telling me to stop trying different WordPress.com themes. Hmmm.