I have been messing with the Theme on this page. I had one that I liked a lot… then I added a photo from Flickr and it didn’t know how to handle the aspect ratio and I ended up with a horrible squished mess.
To the trash, that theme goes.
How does this one look?
A couple of days ago, my wife suggested I use Evernote. I had installed the app on my phone before, but never really used it. I thought it would be cool for grocery shopping lists, but I can’t get any cell signal at the grocery store. Now that I’m a supervisor at work though I find that requests get thrown at me so fast that it s really easy to lose track of them. Gmail helps a ton, what with labels and starring and such, but I am afraid I am going to miss something.
Yesterday morning when I logged into work I brought up Evernote and entered a couple of ideas for additions to the group web page. I had a meeting at 10:00am so I also made note of a couple of emails I wouldn’t have time to get to right away. When I got back to my desk I had Gmail open in one window and Evernote open in another. Between the two sites and questions coming to me in person, over the phone, and via Hangouts, I was able to get to all of the higher priority stuff and not lose track of the lower end things.
It seemed to work nicely yesterday, and so far today it’s the same thing. I had heard that Google had an Evernote of their own coming. I think it’s available. My company is all about Google these days (Gmail! WOOHOO!) so maybe I should use that for bandwagon’s sake. A quick Google search tells me it’s called Keep. Maybe I’ll check it out.
As for WordPress.com, I mentioned that I was trying to set up categories. Wouldn’t you know it, I screwed up the tag to category transfer and now every post I have (all 6,300 or so) have the tag “uncategorized”. So I have begun the slow and painful process of updating each post to include a category and to remove the uncategorized tag. Happy Days. This project will probably run out of gas quickly. We’ll see.
When you log into wordpress.com it takes you to the reader. On the side bar of the reader there is a section with a few suggested blogs. I always ignore them. Today, I didn’t. I opened ’em all. I don’t know why. I was early to work and had to do something, I guess.
One of them had a super wide template. I stole it. It cost me the continuous scroll, and it moved my side bar to the footer, and I have that floating button that gives the list of pages, but it looks like it’s wide enough for me to post some good sized pictures.
I still need to make some tweaks. Like, can I remove the ugly thing that divides the posts? Should I cave in and add a link to my Facebook? I never had one before because that is the only place I post pictures of the kids. We’ll see.
I can’t wistle loud, but I tried. I made a little noise, but it was enough for some of the deer to actually look at the camera. Look at ’em mugging it up.
So ummm… WordPress.com and Flickr. So Flickr changed their embed code. WordPress, it’s time for you to update so that we can use this new code. I mean. What the hell?
To go along with the built in youtube search, wordpress.com now also has a twitter search. Shall we test it?
Did it work?
This is a test. WordPress.com just added a youtube search directly into the new post routine. I thought I’d give it a try with some old Rush. Does it work?
I changed my theme, aren’t you impressed? I was using Pilcrow but I changed it to twenty ten so that I could squeeze a little more image into each post. On the old theme I was embedding images at 500×332, but now I can fit 640×425. I’m not sure I’m sold on this one yet. I might tinker with it, or just scrap it.
I was wondering when Methuen would be holding its Fourth of July fireworks display. I went to twitter and BANG, there was this:
#Methuen‘s #fireworks celebration is Wednesday! pic.twitter.com/biZVxGldgW
— City of Methuen (@cityofmethuen) June 27, 2013
Hmmm… ineteresting, WordPress.com… I thought that would come out with the image of the tweet and the poster attached to it. Ahh, WordPress.com and it’s fear of HTML. Shame.
ADDENDUM: Well the images are there. So I guess what I am really lamenting is a Visual editor that actually shows what will be on the actual post. I could have previewed it, but I didn’t. Oh well. Sorry WordPress.com.
The whole reason I started using wordpress.com was because I could host images on posterous and have them auto post to wordpress. Of course it took just a few weeks before those pics I sent to posterous started showing up in my wordpress storage counts. Then after a couple more weeks the posterous auto posting stopped working. Yeah, that was nice, huh? Now this week we find out that posterous’ parent company, twitter, is closing up the shop and posterous is going away.
I am afraid to see how much of my free wordpress storage space I have used. I have to be more diligent about using Flickr to host images.
So wordpress.com. I just wrote a new page. When I published it I expected it to show up in my header the way my last two pages did. About is there. My Favorite Toys is there. Where is My Music? I don’t recall having to do anything special to get the other pages up there, and there is certainly plenty of room for more. I suppose my theme might cap me at two, but that’s seriously lame.
Any suggestions?
ADDENDUM:
I tried clearing Crome’s cache and all of that fun stuff. Nothing worked. I added a Pages widget into the sidebar and then forgot about it. Later in the day, after posting a couple of pictures of shoes, I noticed the Page was displaying in the header. Okay, it was clearly a cache thing but maybe it was on the server? Who cares, problem solved.
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