Category Archives: BLOGGING

BLOGGING: Feed Widget for Pages

Posted on May 18, 2011 by susan

Think I’ve discovered a way to add a feed to each single page here, something I’ve sought for a couple of years. The Pages feature works well for me most of the time. I have two separate weblogs for literature/reality … Continue reading →

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BLOGGING & WRITING: Time Flies

Posted on June 26, 2010 by susan

I haven’t been keeping up on the weblogs as I used to, but then, thank your lucky stars for Facebook and twitter so you don’t have to read my rants and feel the cosmic waves of my temper tantrums like … Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Spam’s Getting Smarter

Posted on May 18, 2010 by susan

Luckily not so smart that it doesn’t get caught up in Akismet nets however. But just read this one, as one of the finer examples: “Hello, I have been reading your sites content for a while now, actually, probably since … Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: New Spam That Am

Posted on April 11, 2010 by susan

Aside from the obvious flaws in grammar and typos, what blogger would not want to believe these words of a comment are coming from the heart of a legitimate source: This is a good post, which features worthwhile information. If … Continue reading →

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WRITING & LITERATURE & BLOGGING: A Tiger’s Worth of Excuses

Posted on February 20, 2010 by susan

Yes, I’m STILL reading Confessions of Nat Turner and will post on it soon, but it’s obvious that I haven’t been the twice-a-day poster girl here for a while. Well, there are some good reasons for that. I’m writing. And, … Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Server Issues and Commenting

Posted on July 27, 2009 by susan

Because Lunar has threatened to kick me off for over-utilizing resources I’m doing everything I can to adhere to their instructions, though I can’t understand how these two weblogs are hogging resources (I suspect rather that the server is under-resourced). … Continue reading →

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WRITING: Writing the Real

Posted on May 23, 2009 by susan

With the birth of the weblogs came a whole new generation of writers who may have that novel within them or may never entertain the idea, but we are the better for their gifts of sharing and Roberta at Elusive … Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Spam That Am

Posted on May 23, 2009 by susan

It’s getting so I’m beginning to welcome spam in comments. Except the Russian and the falsely complimentary that raise your hopes for the flash of moment that somebody actually cares.

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BLOGGING: Tags

Posted on April 23, 2009 by susan

Obviously the way cloud tags work is that the more uses of a tag, the larger the text. So far, and I’m only about a third into it, Kundera and Calvino have just beat out Ham Sandoval in size. There’s … Continue reading →

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WRITING & BLOGGING: The Perennial Question

Posted on April 20, 2009 by susan

Yeah, it’s been a while, but I’m again starting to ask myself “Why bother?”  prompted by lack of response (gotta find that Mark Bernstein post on why comments on blogs are not a great idea) but stirred to think more … Continue reading →

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BLOGGING & CODE: Redirect

Posted on April 4, 2009 by susan

Well I had wiped out Hypercompendia over at Typepad, but put it back temporarily to use as a redirect if I can do with it what I’ve done with Spinning. I’ve managed to change the Spinning main index template to … Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Personality

Posted on April 2, 2009 by susan

Decided that the soft coral waves didn’t truly suit my personality except perhaps for about an hour in the early morning around five to six a.m. This is a bit more me; same angles and round edges, but photoshopped a … Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Banner

Posted on March 4, 2009 by susan

Well the css studying I’ve been doing has paid off in that I was confident about moving ‘.blog-title’ out from the list of headlines and give it its own font of Desdemona, with alternates of Colonna MT and finally Georgia … Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: I Really Must…

Posted on March 3, 2009 by susan

…design a new banner here. What was I thinking?

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BLOGGING: Yeah…

Posted on February 14, 2009 by susan

…the other design was just too shy.

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