Blogging
Sorry that yesterdays post gave impression that I was going to not blog. What I meant was that I was wondering why at a time that I am finding myself censoring much of what I might post.
I have already done the I am not gonna blog thing and I still did just kept the posts private.
For those keeping track the most viewed post of today is one on model ship building again. Next – the Orange you glad post. Coming in 5th yesterdays post.
After a post at THE MESS THAT IS MY MIND blog I thought I would track visitors for awhile again. Gosh it is funny really. I did discover that one of my posts has a very popular photo apparently. So I set up anti leech controls on it through cpanel and then took a look later. Still that post was getting hit a lot so I deleted the link to the larger version of the photo. Now the hits are getting lower and lower on that post and it’s rank in google has gone down. Amazing when folks cant snitch the pic how that works out. Not that visits to my blog are not important but rather have folks coming here to be friendly not stealing. I mean ask and I always do creative commons but when one pic is always getting hit I gotta assume the photos is getting used without attrition.
Next up on the popular list are some of the wooden ship model update posts.
Well now that I have written another post it will be interesting to see what happens next in the who is reading what and how they got here to read in the first place. Very disconcerting – the blog gets more hits on days where I have not written anything LOL so I might take this to mean silence is better?
Once I created a test page. Nothing on it but a graphic and a few key phrases. I did nothing for months but track hits. When things are active in the world – like this weeks Egypt news – people must use search engines more – I dunno but a page with nothing much on it that never changes gets more hits when big news is out . …
I attended out MS support groups annual Christmas party.
This year we did not have it in a hall but rather at a Denny’s. Ok, nothing against Denny’s but . …
If you set up two rows of tables parrallel to each other and everyone who shows up early sits at one and the four folks who only show up 15 mins early end up at the other it might occur to whom ever that the folks at the empty table might feel a tad left out of the loop? Especially when the only way over to the other table is blocked by the restraunt folks at one end and wheelchairs at the other? We ever so appreciated not knowing what the heck you all were saying, what you thought was so funny. So one table lined both sides with happy campers – the other empty save the four. Two of whom chose to set at the opposite end from the other two. You probably by now have figured out that I was one of the four?
Last years party was fun! This years sucked to be me. Sucked to be one of the other three.
I am generally social inept.
Gotta wonder when you end up feeling left out in a room full of people who claim they always feel left out.
My friend and I did have fun quietly giggling about the dynamics of the situation. My friend D gave me a cute little snowman ornament. My partner in banishment and I opened all the unused party favors bags on our tables and took out all our favorite candies and put them into our bags. Our private revolt. Then when the gifts were being passed out and folks finally figured out we were over “there” I ended up with the table decoration poinsettia and a cup with cocco mix (I gave this to a young couple who arrived right at the end with their little girl whom globbed onto the bright colors in the cup).
I took a macro shot of the poinsettia last night. I should have taken a few more but I kept falling as close to asleep as you can and still be awake.
Here is the shot I did take before heading off to bed.
This evening I put on the 50mm and shot – maybe one will work out for a seasonal header image.
I am trying to find a plugin to use to make a photo album. Narrowing the selection to those I can figure out how to use and how many validation errors they throw I am trying the flickr gallery plugin. It only throws 2 errors. Who knows, maybe I can figure out how to fix em? Yeah right!
There are some awesome plugins out there but they require to much setup for me and my foggy mind. I do not wish to upload the photos to my server nor do I want to pay for another/better online service. I already pay (although a small amount) for a flickr account.
Well check out the photo gallery page – link in the right sidebar or click here for the page.
Let me know what you think?