I’m without g-mail for the time being, and that means I may not know about your comments or see them. I’m re-learning how to use this site…without the helpful, familiar landmarks…and hope to figure out how to access your comments, soon.
The main thing,I don’t want anyone to think I’m disinterested in your comments or that I’m ignoring you. More often than not, the comments are a big part of the fun of doing this blog!
Andy (above) and Dougy continue to be entertaining parts of my day.
Another way to see your activity on your site is to check the Notifications – that little star, plus sign or caption cloud that lights up on the top-right of your page. (or bell, if you are on the Reader)
Thanks! I’ll learn how this SOB works yet, thanks to the excellent guidance of you and others!
And I am still learning too, especially since they insist on changing things on a regular basis!! The ever-recurring ‘new and improved’ world we live in!
Being adaptable is wonderful, and I try to be adaptable. I just don’t like it! (As if we have a choice…!)
Did you know, on your reader, if you click on the bell, there is also an “unread” feature you can use to speed up finding missing comments. 🙂
I just found it today, and, in fact, have been getting all of my mail read and answered . Thanks for mentioning it, though. It amazes me what is so obvious yet not know sometimes, like a little flip open panel on the front on my PC that hides three ports (USB, headphones, and microphone. I didn’t realize it was there until the IT guy casually opened it the day I took it down to get it lobotomized. I think I’ve had the computer around three years now…!
LOL, I have 3 computers and still keep finding stuff I never noticed. 🙂
As long as what I want to do on a computer is do-able, I guess I lack curiosity about what else they might do. Of course, if someone reveals a small miraculous thing I didn’t know was possible, I quickly adapt and adopt it. (usally!)
LOL, baby steps. I sadly, see something on the net I like, and then spend half a day trying to figure it out.
I remember in the early 1990s how a new guy in the department was really big on this form-making program he found and how fast it was. I was able to put together better forms, faster using a plain old IBM Selectric typewriter! Of course, in time, program capabilities improved, and I became a comfirmed user of spreadsheets for amazing thinsg!
It’s amazing how technology and the ability to adapt can bring out the creative sides in us. 🙂
Adapt of die, eh?! What always amazes me is when, after many failed attempts doing something the way I think it should be done, something magically happens to make it finally work and I am too worn to a frazzle by then to know exactly what I did that was different…and successful! finding g-mail was one such mystery. Getting on WordPress before I had the easy link I’d saved in a g-mail folder was another. Of course, now that I have the easy link again, I won’t waste time with the alternative way stumbled on!
Always the way. I’m currently going through this with a new photo gallery I’m building on another site. It’s driving me crazy!
I have a new My Book 3 terabyte external gizmo to save things to, in preparation for the next time I have computer problems. I haven’t set it up yet, and don’t really feel up to it just yet. I know I should just do it, though.
DO IT! It saved 8,000 equestrian photos I almost lost once!!!
OUCH! There’s my incentive!
I normally have 3 backups; the computer, on sticks and the portable hard drive. I got lazy on the sticks and when my computer crashed I luckily had auto-backups to the drive. :-/
Do you know how to download WordPress? Is that possible for mere mortal computer users? Yeah, and I think I’ll make a DVD back-up along with the others.
No, I have WordPress on favorites and pinned to my home page. I just click and go. Why would you want to download it?
So I have a complete “book” of all posts I can print out, I guess, in case something ever happened to this site. I know Daily Booth could be downloaded when it went belly up, and I failed to save that material.
I prefer to just email them to myself and store them that way. Why suck up all that memory with downloads.
G-mail has a limit, too, on what you can store, but that’s a thought. I do have them sent to me, though that wasn’t initially by plan.
I have over 1600 posts on gmail and so far so good. 🙂 I just move them to a CATB file and it seems to work.
I don’t know anything about those. Can you save things with the formatting, essentially as they appear when someone opens up your blog?
Yes you can. Do you follow yourself? That way you get automatic emails. 🙂
Yes, I do follow myself.
Narcissist! (lol) The only problem I find is printing them. They never come out exactly like the post.
That’s my experience, too. Of course, I have the reverse whatever it’s called (black background; white text), and I’d pay a king’s ransom printing all that black! As is, with all the photos, it would be a formidable expense..
OH my God yes! You have reversed text. Yes I think digital files would be better. But considering the size of WordPress, I don’t worry about my stuff being stored here on it. 🙂
If DailyBooth hadn’t tanked, it wouldn’t have occurred to me that a website might have a lifespan. Of course, they (Daily Booth) never figured out how to make money with it, something WordPress has.
Right now, WP is one of the largest web hosting platforms on the planet. Their corporate client base is pretty impressive. That’s why if your on WP you don’t need to worry about SEO the way self hosting sites do. It’s pretty much built it.
That’s encouraging!
I had to check; there are over 75 million active blogs and an average of 100,000 posts daily, on Word Press.
That makes it amazing that I manage to “capture” roughly 530 “followers” and an occasional visit from any of them! Gives a good sense of why chosing the “right” tags matters, though.
Absolutely. Categories and tags are a huge part of people being able to find you.
It seems you were the one who suggested I get more involved in categories. My “followers” doubled in short time! I think I’m at a comfortable level now, with a handful of you familiar regulars, bloggers all.
That’s what it’s all about. Finding that comfort zone. 🙂
🙂
It occurs to me, I originally found you in “cats” and it went from there. 🙂
I think I found most of you in new posts. I don’t recall looking for specific categories in the early days. Everything was interesting and I wasn’t focused!
LOL sounds like a cyberspace love story. 😀
Ha! Ha! “Cats”! My Facebook “Home” looks like a cat lady moved in with her 79 cats, but I make no excuses: I became a cat person in 2009, and the addiction just grows with time. So it is with my fellow bloggers, it seems. What’s best about it, though, is it seems people who are enthusiastic about cats mostly are enthusiastic about all animals, so we can share other pets with each other, too. I follow several dog blogs. Actually the only animals for which I have no enthusiasm are monkeys. I don’t care for spiders or snakes, but I admire them from afar!
I love spiders, I must admit and also follow a lizard blog that’s very cute.
I can only imagine a lizard blog is cute! I like the little buggers myself!
http://dailylizardphoto.com/
A cute simple photo blog of his lizard. 🙂
What a hoot! I love quirky blogs like that, and now am a follower! Thanks for sharing that link, Tom. I needed a laugh this morning, and that blog did the job!
I thought you’d like it. It’s just wonderful. I love that face!!! 🙂
Yes, strangely lovable, eh?! And expressive. (Even without the cute costumes and hats that occasionally get added to the scene…!)
OH! here’s one more in the same style. Except instead of a lizard it’s a ferret and he lives with a cat. 🙂 https://cocobaba.wordpress.com/
Yeah, I’m following that one now, too! Very entertaining. Ferrets (mustelids, period) are amusing animals, smart, playful, and fun to watch. Seems the come across well in photos, too!
I wondered where you went after you said you were able to attain a new laptop. Hmmm, quite a mysterious conundrum. I hope you can get everything worked out soon. We all miss you!
I’d hoped the laptop was the panacea for my miseries, but it proved to be a false hope! Anyway, for the time being, I have both PC and laptop, neither in prime usable configuration. BUT, such as they are, they are better than nothing, which is pretty darn close to what they are., LOL!
Geesh, what a pain but i suppose they still charged you for not fixing your computers! Ugh, techno is great when it works but when it doesn’t, its just a nightmare as if we need one more avenue of stressors to get through the day. I know I find my computer as a means of escape from my ailments. It takes my mind off of everything and distracts me from the pain. I pray you can get this all sorted out quickly!
I just wrote something similar to what you did, Tina! You aren’t just woofin’! I am of the “I don’t want to know how clever the tool is, I just want the tool to work first time, every time I want to use it” school. I love the capabilities of computers, but I hate how they mindlessly go to hell, even when you think you are doing all of the security scans right and in adequate frequency!.
Yep, I think it is a constant reminder to us that human beings are fallible and whatever we create will have the mistakes within them that we make. Its sad but true. Technology cannot surpass its creator, yet.
My thought exactly! (You and I seem to be on the same wave length tonight, Tina!)
Its a good wavelength to ride, my friend.
Hey, I’m in agreement with that!
Oh goodness. I hope you can get things back together soon.
Me, too! I am not interested in the mechanics of how the work, just if they work. This re-setting stage is tedious to me, though several people have mentioned things that may save me the hassles of re-installing programs that don’t do much more than the things canned programs already on the computer can do. I don’t need “fancy”. I just need “do-able”!
I hear that about the mechanics of how it works.
Welcome back Doug, Andy and Dougy.
Glad to be back! I missed keeping up with what was going on in you and other friends’ lives this past week, and hope to get through the reader updates tomorrow.
Sorry your lap top had a virus from you trying to download google and happy you are back.
Yeah, that was really tedious! I used it for less than two hours, but that was all it took.
I’m having a problem with my email, too. Had to change email providers and don’t have messages coming in from WordPress. It sucks having to get used to a new norm.
Amen! I just learned today about the bell icon at the top right hand of the page when you have your”My Site” page open. It’s a much faster way to address comments than e-mail, and you actually get them! You should take a look and see if you like it better, too.
I stumbled on it last year by sheer accident. That’s the only way I would have ever found it. The only problem is that when I type too fast, it can’t handle all the letters. Then I hav to go back, look for all th red lines, andfill in the letters. 🙂
I’m not the best typist, either. In fact, I’m a modified “huint and peck” typist. I am pretty fast, but my final output accuracy is dependent upon the magic of SpellCheck!
I left the missing letters and spaces to show you what happens when I use the bell to reply. 🙂
If it weren’t for the red line under the words, I’d have to use a text reader to find the problems. I love the little red line. 🙂
The little red line is my friend, too! And how!