Feb 05 2006

Midnight trampoline in force 9 gale

category: using things
scribble tags:
Warning: novice use of teccy Jargon stuff in this entry.
 
  • I get blog design freedom.  Release the Bloggers! I’m seeking categorisation, search, drafting (spelling) facilities.  Visual customisation opportunities are a minimum requirement.
  • I learn something.
  • readers aren’t required to have a passport.
 
 
Trying to achieve this is like trampolining outside,  in the dark,  during a force 9 gale with some hailstones intermittently thrown in!  I’ve read so much well meant technical instruction stuff that I Just DON’T UNDERSTAND.
 
  BLUEAGHHHHH-SPLUT-Splut-splutt…shhhhhlllluuuuummmpppp*
 
*Temporary brain implosion
 
 
 
 
This is what I think I’ve done: 

GoDaddy tutorials are extremely good.  They are ’Wizard’ step-by-step guides with pictures of what you will see at each step. The difficult bit is working out which tutorial I need!  

  • Used Microsoft publisher (first time) to produce and publish a ‘Draft’ webpage on the Domain.  Needs some planning and ’Design’!!!!!  

I hope to ferment creative ways to use web-pages around the Blog…

  • Put ‘Wordpress 2′ and “MoveableType” Zip files on the Web Server.  By first downloading it to my computer then ‘moving’ it using FTP to the WendyHome web server.  This did involve CRASHING IE 6.0 4 times. I sent Micorosoft the details of each crash through their ‘Send Error Report’ system.  Hope someone fixes something so others don’t have to deal with that. 

Everytime I try to open the zip file’s on the web-server I get a message saying thet are currupted. Sigh. I’m ‘blocked’ from progress here.

  • Completed a preliminary evaluation of the free blogging software (QuickBlog V1.1)  provided with the web-server space purchase.  Practical results show on:  http://the.wendyhome.com/
  • Excellent categorisation system management system!
  • Ability to ‘import’ past blog entries using RSS.  Import constrained by MSN Spaces to last ‘25′ entries and no comments.  Sigh.
  • Poor entry editting GUI . For example, no colour palette,  I’d have to LEARN HTML.  No thanks…
  • Spell-check on entries.  Hooray!!!!
  • Extremely limited visual and modular customization (embedded lists etc) personalization (themed templates) opportunities compared to MSN Spaces.  Oh deary.
  • Commenters can leave their email address for me,  rather than ‘pulbished.  Hooray!
  • Horrific supplier advertising at the top of the blog-page.  This one persistent visual-yuck feature drives me getting either Wordpress or MoveableType working on the WebServer.

 

 I’ll be moving the Wendyhouse sometime soon.  Soon?  Maybe by August at this rate….

 

W Doing-it-herself (One-care)

Feb 05 2006

Player characteristics #3: creative imagination

category: courting
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Third reflection on symptoms of what North American’s call a ‘player‘*. 

#3:  Creative imagination

Ability to construct creative, enticing, plausible opportunities for fun often with implicit escape clauses,  followed by blame redirection to side-step responsibility for blocking realization of those opportunities. 

Examples:

lets use my air miles to runaway to Bolivia together

I’m show you my disorganised worst first then things can only get better

I bought the t-shirts and marker-pens to make a ‘tour’ t-shirt for this night out

Ooops,  that’s me,  Wendy,  but I’m not a player, really, no I’m not.  NOT A PLAYER. 

Players do not seem to realise that creative, plausible, opportunities for mutual fun cease to be believable when based on a track record that includes liberal applications of escape clauses and blame redirection.

W fascinated-by-players-strategies

* No single symptom can lead to a reliable diagnosis of a ‘Player’.  This ‘disorder’ is not yet recognised by the DSM IV.

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