There seems to be a disconnection (for me) between WordPress and my google email account – ie. I am not getting any notifications of anyone else’s blogposts. Is anyone else having this problem?
A few bloggy questions for those who might know the answers!
1. How come, if I click ‘Follow’ I am sometimes automatically subscribed to a blog and sometimes not?
2. In relation to the above, why is ‘Follow’ enough on some blogs but on others I have to do the email subscription thing (which I don’t mind – just wondering)?
3. Is it normal for photos to sometimes take 20 minutes hours to upload?
4. In relation to the above, why will one photo upload in a few minutes, and another take a century, when both were taken by the same camera, at the same time, on the same day?
5. Where exactly did my blogroll go when I unwittingly lost it?
6. In relation to the above, will those ‘lost’ bloggers now hate my guts?
7. How many posts per day is too many? (Yes, I have raised this before)
8. Is it okay to not particularly like the whole award thing or does this seem ungracious and offensive?
9. How is it that all the bloggers I now know seem like perfect people?
10. In relation to all of the above, is scotch the same as whiskey?
One post per day
This is my 3rd post for the day, which contradicts what I am saying below:
- I can’t keep up with all the daily posts from all the wonderful bloggers I subscribe to so, from now on, I will discipline myself to look at only one post per day from each blogger – is this okay?
- Similarly, I will, from now on, only post once per day.
Not sure what else to do! I am getting nearly 200 emails per day!
What are your thoughts?
WordPressing problems
I don’t really want to a blog about blogging, when I want to blog about other stuff, however there are certain things about the way WordPress works which may need attention. I’m not complaining, just responding to the problems I feel need to be ‘fixed’. I will try to outline my suggestions as entertainingly as possible.
- A relative just emailed me, distressed because she thought one of the posts I reblogged (and I don’t do this often) was me talking, not the original blogger, so she thought I was going to get a divorce! This misunderstanding is because the reblogger’s comment (mine) came at the end, rather than at the beginning, of the reblogged post (the brilliant writer who is not me!)
- Along the same lines, everything is backwards in time; i.e you have to read your comments backwards and your ‘followers’ have to read your posts backwards. So, every time you subscribe to a blog, or vice versa, it’s a bit difficult to get to the beginning first and read through subsequent posts in an orderly fashion (you know, February to March, rather than March to February).
- I find the term ‘follower’ a little strange because, for me (yes it’s just me and probably everyone will disagree) connotes with either ‘disciple’ or ‘stalker’.
- Also, when someone ‘likes’ my post, I am also told by WordPress that they think it is “awesome” (and again, vice versa). Okay, I quite like my cute little nose but I don’t think it’s awesome.
I hope this doesn’t sound too cynical or rebellious; WordPress is awesome!
I’m ducking for cover now – hehe!
Hold your head up high
Geese have a natural ability to hold their heads up high. You’ve all seen pictures of Godfrey doing this, but the younger ones are getting good at it too. Diamond, on the left, is getting particularly good at it, whereas Seli still doesn’t have it down to a fine art.
The following photo is of my wonderful, unusual, brilliant friend, Nathalie Collins who, amongst other things, has enhanced my neck-stretching abilities by showing me how to hold my head up high. She herself (not that I am comparing her to a goose!) has a very natural ability to do so which, before I met her, I lacked. You can find Nathalie here and it’s definitely worth a gander (sorry that is a really bad play on words but I couldn’t help myself!)
http://theinfinitegame.org/cv/
Nathalie got me into blogging in the first place and set me up with WordPress when I didn’t even really know what blogging was. In fact, I am such a technophobe that I only just discovered that, after all these months, I wasn’t even properly signed up to her own blog (this is quite embarrassing and I hope she will forgive me!)
This is what Nathalie had to say about the picture:
“These “angel wing” crystal earrings were purchased in the USA, but the fashion has since migrated south to Australia. Silver and gold feathers are “in” at the moment and were part of my outfit in the “wear a hat to work day” I recently experienced.
By the way, the hat was an original, Summer White House Press Hat from the Clinton Administration, given to me by a friend who covered the that president during his summer in Martha’s Vinyard. Now matter how the vote went no one else at work had a hat that cool
The hat that won the vote? A straw hat with peacock feathers! I was devastated.
The thing about the earrings is that they remind me of Julie…the bird bit mainly, but also the sparkly bit. In her own way, Julie is as bright and shiny (and cheerful) as the crystals in my earrings.”
Nathalie is my Diamond and I am her Seli. Some friendships are definitely worth feathering….
Best friends
Today was the deadline for us (Husband, Son and me) to ‘sign’ our agreement with the nursing lodge, to ensure that the room Husband is in for respite, is, as of tomorrow, permanently his room. This has now been done.
The only way I could cope with this was to keep reiterating to Husband that he could come home any time and that Son and I would enable this and that we would not abandon him.
Husband was home here for much of the day before we had to go back and sign the forms. There was a lot of talking, a lot of silence and a lot of withheld sobbing, but we got through and I took him back to the nursing lodge. I just rang Husband and he is okay – sort of.
Tomorrow, Son and I go to Perth for 4 hours of pre-op. appointments before his scoliosis surgery on 14 Feb. Son can’t wait for his surgery so he can be straight again. It’s all pretty weird timing I guess – good in some ways, not-so-good in other ways!
This blog was initially a bird blog, with a bit of humour added. I didn’t know, when I began the blog, that the above crap was situations were going to transpire so fast, so, for the birding followers, I apologise for these diversions.
Husband has always been my best friend. He is my best friend. Son comes a close second.
The three of us.
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