Flynn's Paws: My Thoughts, My Gripes

Tag: WordPress

  • The future of DailyPost in 2012: details coming soon

    To team Automattic: Can you combine questions from Plinky.com with DailyPosts.wordpress.com and merge both sites into one snowball? Okay! Thanks!

    I’m having difficulty accessing the Plinky.com website and “sharing” the Plinky.com with my other wordpress.com weblog via my cellphone. Refreshin the web pages of Plinky.com would give me the following message via my Android smartphone:

    Web page not available

    The Web page at http://www.plinky.com/ ight be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.

    Here are some suggestions:

    • Check to make sure your device has a signal and data connection.
    • Reload this web page later.
    • View a chached copy of the web page from Google.

  • The future of DailyPost in 2012: details coming soon

    To team Automattic: Can you combine questions from Plinky.com with DailyPosts.wordpress.com and merge both sites into one snowball? Okay! Thanks!

    I’m having difficulty accessing the Plinky.com website and “sharing” the Plinky.com with my other wordpress.com weblog via my cellphone. Refreshin the web pages of Plinky.com would give me the following message via my Android smartphone:

    Web page not available

    The Web page at http://www.plinky.com/ ight be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.

    Here are some suggestions:

    • Check to make sure your device has a signal and data connection.
    • Reload this web page later.
    • View a chached copy of the web page from Google.

  • My 2011 year in blogging…

    On Saturday, December 31, 2011 2:23 PM (or the inverse timestamp of 322 for the Skull and Bones society), I received an email about [My] Annual Report from WordPress.com. It is “[My] 2011 in blogging. [Their] stats helper monkeys have been busy putting together a personalized report detailing how [my] blog did in 2011! Here’s a sneak peek”: http://thebloggingpath.com/2011/annual-report/

    “WordPress.com presents
    [My] BloGGinG Path
    2011 in blogging

    Happy New Year from WordPress.com!
    This report is public
    Make private

    To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on your blog’s activity in 2011. You may start scrolling!
    Crunchy numbers

    The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 18,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 7 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

    In 2011, there were 2,205 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 9,352 posts. There were 826 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 113mb. That’s about 2 pictures per day.

    The busiest day of the year was August 20th with 365 views. The most popular post that day was Security update and 15% off upgrade coupon from WordPress.com.
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    How did they find you?

    The top referring sites in 2011 were:

    wordpress.com
    en.wordpress.com
    dailypost.wordpress.com Following
    facebook.com
    uwantson.com

    Some visitors came searching, mostly for birthday cards, benito mussolini, ophiuchus symbol, and ophiuchus sign.
    Where did they come from?
    Most visitors came from The United States. The United Kingdom & Philippines were not far behind.
    Who were they?

    Your most commented on post in 2011 was Deleting pages…

    These were your 5 most active commenters:

    1 John Jr 393 comments Following
    2 John Jr 151 comments
    3 Donna Carrillo 43 comments
    4 digitalangeldonnadj 21 comments
    5 postadaychallenge2011 8 comments Following

    Perhaps you could follow their blog or send them a thank you note?
    Attractions in 2011

    These are the posts that got the most views in 2011. You can see all of the year’s most-viewed posts in your Site Stats.

    1 Security update and 15% off upgrade coupon from WordPress.com 9 comments August 2011
    2 20091201-Prayer Journal 0 comments December 2009
    3 Snake Sign 0 comments June 2010
    4 20090625-Politically Socialist 2 comments June 2009
    5 New Domain 0 comments August 2010

    Some of your most popular posts were written before 2011. Your writing has staying power! Consider writing about those topics again.
    Share this with your visitors

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    See you in 2012

    If you like what you saw in this summary and want to know more about how your blog is doing, you can always visit your Site Stats, where our helper-monkeys are working day and night to provide you with pages and pages of detail on how your blog is doing.

    Thanks for flying with WordPress.com in 2011.
    We look forward to serving you again in 2012! Happy New Year!

    WordPress.com

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  • How do you define your identity?

    My cultural heritage is supposed to be a “Chinoy,” meaning I am Filipino who looks Chinese! However, I was born and raised American.

    Just as we were about to leave the McD restaurant off Brokaw, we overheard the regular homeless guy complaining loudly about being kicked out of a grocery store.

    This was after I was describing (aloud) how wonderful it would be to design a grocery bag with rhinestone and a monogram with “MOM” emblazoned on the front.

    The tall Chinese guy (who seemed to be also a regular) hollered back at the deeply, tanned white guy (with a narrow face and thick bottled-eyeglasses): “Go sue them”.

    The homeless guy hollered back: “I am American! I don’t sue anybody.”

    There you go, folks. I too am American and won’t sue anyone. Perhaps, “the Donald” needs to do something about FOREIGNERS!

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    “when exactly did someone sit down and consider the alternatives?”

    Let’s see. As of yet, the boy has not returned my text message about their third wedding anniversary gifts of a dozen pink roses by Maw and a greeting card signed by Paw yesterday. I can tell the boy is a henpeck and refuses to tell the twit how she has hurt the feelings of her mother-in-law and disrepected the traditions of her father-in-law.

    “How can a person define their own identity? Is it good to do this? Why or why not?”

    A person can define their own identity by how clueless they are in a multicultural society. Those “traditionalist” who continue to practice their heritage will never adapt/adjust to the progressive movement of change, which is supposed to be good for everyone. If these FOREIGNERS live in America and wanted to leave their oppressive countries, WTF are they still complaining?

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    http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/define-your-identity

    Posted from WordPress for Android

  • Are you good to people you don’t know?

    Are you good to people you don’t know? How, when and why (or why not)?

    Generally, I have been know to be good to people I don’t know. However, I can piss off people whom I sensed is naughty, such as the twit’s niece. Long ago, she came over and I told her to help her aunt and the henpeck. She barely lifted up the hammer out and looked all weak. Then the twit and her talked together in the room; while I told the boy that I don’t like her.

    Usually, my face will show great disdain with my frown face — squinty eyes and downturned mouth and flairing nostrils. I really force myself to smile at strangers who are faking their sincerity. My smile will come forth when only good-natured characters are genuine.

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    http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/good-to-people/

  • Looking Back at Post a Day 2011 — How’d You Do?

    Here are eleven questions to help you [decide] your blogging strategy for the new year:

    1. Why did you start the Post a Day/Week Challenge? I was bored.
    2. Describe the state of your blog [when] you started the challenge. It was mostly rant.
    3. How did your blog evolve over the course of the challenge? The content got shorter.
    4. Did you post as often as you had hoped? Why or why not? I continue to post daily to supplement my rants.
    5. What type of blogging strategy works best for you? Controversial issues in the form of simple questions are better than coming up with my own rants.
    6. If you could go back to the beginning, what would you do differently? I wouldn’t blog about my personal problems.
    7. What are you most proud of accomplishing this year? I supplemented my daily blogs with some photos upload via my new cellphone, which is supposed to be smart.
    8. Name 3 great blogs you discovered through the challenge. I found/borrowed/stolen ideas from blogs about dreams, poetry and social issues.
    9. What surprised you about the challenge? My opinions really don’t matter and I noticed people got their own lives. If they had the time to read my blog, I’m sure my blog stats would show the numbers.
    10. What advice would you give to others who want to blog regularly? Blog anonymously about controversial issues and claim insanity for when the FEDs come knocking at your door.
    11. What are your blogging goals for 2012? I want to stop blogging for 2012.

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    http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/looking-back-at-2011/

  • Humanize me…

    I just noticed a “Humanize” tab via my Blog Stats. It shows no graph, which is better and show the following:

    Today you have had 0 views. 0 is the smallest non-negative integer. The natural number following 0 is 1 and no natural number precedes 0.

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    I pre-suppose that this feature is due to checking off the box for “Surprise me. (Fun mode.)” via the “Personal Settings” section of the “User” menu of the left sidebar to my Dashboard.

  • Would you ever fight over a sneaker?

    “Would you ever wait in line overnight for something? If so, what?”

    No! For an economist, time has value. Therefore, waiting in line overnight, fighting over a pair of sneaker and landing in jail for committing crimes can be COSTLY. After a while the fad looses value and humans will find replacements of something better to fill the “void”. Therefore, I wouldn’t wait in line, not unless it means for the chance of healing and redemption.

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    http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/fight-over-a-sneake/

  • What is your personal system for blogging?

    Would you mind taking a minute to give us some thoughtful answers? Its only 5 questions long. Pretty please? Okay, fine! Here is the survey.

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    http://22102.polldaddy.com/s/what-is-your-personal-system-for-blogging

    What is your personal system for blogging?

    Hi DailyPost reader. Thanks for taking a minute to help make WordPress.com better.

    [Start Survey]

    Q.1

    Is your blog primarily for personal or business use? *

    Personal
    Business

    Q.2

    Do you have a specific goal to blog every day or week? *

    Yes, every day
    Yes, every week (or other set period of time)
    No

    Q.3

    If WordPress.com provided easy to use tools and reminders for blogging goals, would you try it? *

    Yes
    No
    Please help us understand why you selected this answer – Please send email reminders to blog via Tweets in the form of questions, like Plinky.com, Formspring.me, and The DailyPost.wordpress.com.

    Q.4

    Do you use your calendar to remind you to post? (If not, what tools, or approaches do you use?) *

    Yes
    No
    Please help us understand why you selected this answer. What kind of reminders do you set? – Recently, I’ve been using the “Memo” app of my cellphone to log in my random thoughts as blogging material later on.

    Q.5

    How do you track your progress with your goal? Do you periodically review what you achieved and compare it to your goal? * – I don’t have a goal. All I want is to do is to log my random thoughts of “mostly rants and other stuff” and realize that a minimal approach is better than smaller posts, which could easily be achieved via Twitter, which I don’t use other than give link backs to my primary weblog.

    Q.6

    If you have a system for blogging that wasn’t captured well by the above questions, please describe how you set, review, and try to achieve your goals for blogging. – I’ve set myself to blog everyday. I don’t have time to review my blog or read other blogs. I try to achieve my goals for blogging by entering notes on the “Memo” app of my cellphone. Thank you.

    [Finish Survey]

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    http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/what-is-your-personal-system-for-blogging/

  • Don’t Box Me In

    Yesterday, our AT&T voicemail access was “mysteriously” disabled for Paw. I don’t know what happened. This unresolved issue went on for two hours from around 3:30pm to around 5:30pm and through five phone representatives. I tried downloading the online tool for technical resolution but the questions didn’t fit my issue.

    Prior to noontime, I tried to forward ALL voice from the landline to my cellphone. The first and second try online went smoothly. But then I encountered difficulty navigating the AT&T U-Verse webpages. I had to submt a survey with ALL low ratings to each question because I’d get pages to login and 404 errors thereafter!

    So by comparing AT&T with WordPress, I find the former has too many CONFUSING links! WordPress, by far, is much user friendly. I too do NOT like clutter. I get impatient with too much detail, which could explain why I asked for a refund for my Premium Theme last night.

    Collasping the left sidebar menu of my Dashboard also when I edit my blogs via my cellphone which has a SMALL screen. That’s why I prefer auto-fit for any webpages!

    As for my personal desktop workspace. I make a habit of closing ALL unused windows and keep at least two windows open — one IE9 and Firefox 9.0. (I read last night that Mozilla is in league with Google. Sell-outs!)

  • What do you think of the new posting UI?

    First, Further, I didn’t know what the letters “UI” meant and couldn’t post this blog. So yesterday had to search online to find out that “UI” stands for “User Interface” via definitions found under “jQuery UI Dialog”.

    Second, the new posting UI is “okay”. For some reason, I’m not excited. Maybe the climate is too cold or that I’ve run into a blogger’s burn-out. The new posting UI helps me to see how my blog looks. And if I see anything that needs editing, then I could press the “Edit Post” button for further review.

    • I can see how many posts I’ve published.
    • There are two buttons to choose: Edit Post and Close Sidebar.
    • A posting goal is also displayed, along with a slide bar and a star at the far right end of it.
    • Below the bar is a quote, which I will copy and paste into a new blog entry.
    • There are other features displayed, such as Sharing and Tagging.

    All those are from the sidebar to the left. The content is displayed on the right side.

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    http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/what-do-you-think-of-the-new-posting-ui/

  • 20111220-Random Thoughts

    Here are my notes via the “Memo” app of my cellphone:

    [slideshow]

    Today we received a greeting card from the family of Councilmember Kansen Chu and his family. I just noticed three one’s and three three’s for the FPPC# 1343113 of the card.

    12/20/2011 18:11. I viewed Kim Jong Il’s body displayed in an extravagant glass coffin | National News – Green 960- Your progressive community with Paw. I had a thought about his age being 69. Considering he was a politician, that numerical value looks Satanic to me.

    Posted from WordPress for Android

    12/20/2011 18:47. I had to look up the meaning of “UI” for JQuery AI Dialog. “UI” stands for “user interface”. I am building up these quotes, which I’ve not noticed before until after a few posts within a day or two of this “new posting UI”.

    12/20/2011 17:45. I tried the new WordPress holiday theme for my weblog – Large (2560×1830 · 6.4 MB). The mustard color goes well with my Premium Theme – Luscious (for now, of course).

    12/20/2011 17:45. D’s Plumbing came over to replace a plastic drain pipe underneath my sink upstairs in the SMALL vanity room. Of course, Ed said there was LOTS of hair that clogged up the pipe. My bad! I’ve been cutting my own hair and letting the pieces drain into the sink.

    I had made the discovery of the leakage at around 03:30pm, the same time we received a call back from Capitol Mazda and when Paw discovered access to his AT&T voicemail has been disabled! I spoke with five representatives and got the issue resolved in about two hours! I filled out the survey and gave each entry the lowest score! Blah!

    Anyway, I sprayed down the darkened wooden cabinet with Clorox bleach, waited for a few minutes, wiped it down several times and used my personal heater to dry the wood as much as possible before the plumber came over to fix it. There was crystalized colors of white and black from the leakage just before the U-turn neck of the pipe. Paw helped to vacuum Ed’s mud from our floors and carpet and any debris from the cabinet.

    12/20/2011 17:45. At around 12:44pm, we made our exit at JC Penny’s. When suddenly a dark-skinned Asian Indian coughs to my left side from the opposite direction. He was with two other people. I turned my head and coughed back at him. Once again, the Satanic network won’t let up. I was wearing my earrings to “ward off these spooks”. But I guess it lost its “power” to banish these demonic seeds back. (We purchased shoes from Payless Shoes Stores and other “fake” items, such as buy 2, get one free earrings, one ring, one pink purse, one small snap wallet, from Claire’s.

    12/20/2011 15:18. Maw and I were talking about Yeyo’s green egg. Filipinos actually cook and eat rotten eggs (or gampok/hampok)! But Maw doesn’t know how they cook it.

    12/20/2011 11:44. My car’s dashboard showed: 72,300 (odometer) and 011.1 (speedometer). We finished shopping at Eastridge Mall.

    12/20/2011 07:47. At 07:46am, I removed Yeyo’s rotten egg. She ate most of the calcium-rich eggshell and left a pea-sized, green-colored piece of hard egg yolk, which I picked up with my white latex glove. She tried to bite my glove really hard but she had no strength as she continued to warm the BIGGER but single chick and remaining two eggs. The first rotten egg was a hard, unfertilized yellow egg yolk.