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Wednesday, August 03, 2005Want to do a post-BlogHer to do list. This OPML thing is my non-bomb blog thinkalong. Explore and link to other Women Bloggers (see blogroll, right) Write an essay about Conversation and Girl Talk. (this'll is a lengthy one Just saw a way to have a shortcut to a few posts on Nancy White's home page (which is not her blog page; she uses RSS Digest to do it). Cool. Gotta get me some of that RSS goodness. Advertising. Yep, I'm going to go there. PayPal tip jar button. Going to go there, too. An inadvertant click of the Save button gets me some new (but empty) content. Tuesday, August 02, 2005Message Chasing So. Friend calls me. On my cel phone, usually. The conversation we have goes like this: "Oh, no, T, I didn't get your message. I was home and the cel phone was downstairs and I didn't hear it ring." Most recently I was away at BlogHer. No home phone, but cel phone. Which didn't ring. Came home, saw messages but sometimes you just want to let it slide. So I go to the meeting where T was. No one there. Think, uh oh, better check messages. There's one from T "My car's dead, we'll meet at my house, I'll email you with instructions." No email. Which I checked. I call to say I won't be there. "Yes, I left a message on your home phone." Turns out email message was there, but because my schizophrenic Junk Mail filter decided to start working again and did so by taking all the emails I WANT to get and tagging them junk. Technology sucks. Or, to put it differently. No matter what you do to make things work, they'll break. New day. New outline. New document. So does the old stuff scroll down the page, or disappear to the previous page? Oh, AHA! Behold, the only menu in OPML where I do anything (Community > Your OPML Weblog > Days on home page) Change from one to 5. All rightie then. Monday, August 01, 2005Blithering Idiot: tech identity rant blogging for the last 45 ear-singeing minutes. regender: very funny. Tried it with my bomb blog, of course. Funny post re: Little Girl: The cruiser Indianapolis, which left San Frances on the 16, arrives at Tinian and unloads his cargo: The Little Girl (Uranium) bomb's gun assembly and the Uranium "bullet."A ship is a "him" and the Little Boy bomb is really a Little Girl bomb. oh my. Ooh! Ooh! How do I insert delicious tags into this blog? Trying out the sidebar stuff. Community > Your OPML Weblog > Open Blogroll. Double-clicked an item on the page. Got a dialog box asking me for ms explorer. Wishlist: How to tell OPML that I don't do MS Explorer, have it find Firefox instead. Which is launched, afterall. Clicking New Entry puts an outline triangle at the top of the page. New entry turns bold only when there's a subwhatchamajiggie under it. I imagine that there are other things that one can do if one wants to, in order to customize appearance. If one chooses to do so. Oh, so THIS is where the blogs come from. I feel so dumb. So incredibly dumb. By the way, when I say "THIS" I'm talking about how to get to have a weblog on the blogs.opml.org server like all the other ones that I saw, the blogs and update list that Dave Winer linked to, the (presumed) end result of this process. But no. It took a couple of attempts to reach this point. Including totally trashing the OPML.exe on the Windows machine. Described here. here's what it took to create a blog with Truman on it: .
How did I find out where to do this? Not on the Download Page or Getting Started section lower on the download page, but by poking around in sidebar links: Blogging Tool. That's where the big secret was. Alas, I thought it was a slam dunk from Dave Winer's original link to the download page to do one of those Truman blog pages. But it wasn't. It took me nearly a week. (Okay, I broke Windows, and posted a note and then went to BlogHer and am back again.) So I feel dumb. I sorta expect that when I save this new window type I'll (finally) get that page that Dave Winer talked about and linked to and everything. Where he said, Look at All The New Stuff! See the updates?. This is what I wrote in my test.opml file: (let me try a double indent level with this) Will I succeed with this? I'm not feeling confident. I do not yet know how to get from having a funny unfriendly xml document to the blogs that other people have. That's what got me all messed up the first time around, and in trying to fix it, I broke the site. That was on the windows machine. I suck at windows. I blow at Windows. And I made it worse by trying to drag directories here and there in order to maybe get something that would get me a site (with the update list) that Dave Winer enthusiastically referred to on Scripting News. Nope. he does enthusiasm. I do broken. I guess I'd rather do broken intentionally, like the glorious New year's tradition of smashing plates in the last minutes of the old year. Rather than trying out something new. And gnashing. Now "my" site is really broken. Because I forgot my registration information after that. Then went to BlogHer. And some other stuff. So I finally created this other site, using oh-so-confident terminology. Name: Blithering Idiot. Subdirectory: /failure/ Well, I guess it can only get better from here. I'd like to discover how it becomes a blog, tho. I obviously don't get it. I SO don't get it. Observations about OPML: copy link to clipboard, select text, and then from OPML:HTML menu, select Add Link... will apply the clipboard's link to the selected text. Don't know how to confirm success from within OPML, have to save outline and check the web page to see if it worked. The HTML menu for the lists does not have open and close list item tags, in sets, shown here sorta. [li] [/li] So I get to add the closing tags myself. Still don't know whether I should have new list items on new "lines" or in new "outline triangle thingums." |
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