Archive for March, 2010

Mar 18

thankful for a quiet day

This is the story of my day. I thought I could capture it and impart the feel, the heaviness, the pain of today. It made me think about what I would write through. By the time the day was done, I was content to know that there’s not much I won’t write through anymore.

Late Morning

Today is the most horrible day I’ve had in a while. And that’s really too bad because it’s such a good day. The weather is lovely, pretty at a comfortable 68 degrees. My brother came by briefly with my nephew and niece. The children woke me so that they could play with my bugs. They had to wake me because my first plan was to sleep all day.

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Mar 16

technology challenges for today

I’m pretty peevish today. I have been working for 2 days trying to figure out why my trackbacks are not showing. I don’t get many and I appreciate each one. These are the times that keep me motivated to know more about how all this works in the coding.

What’s going Wrong

  1. I don’t know if it’s Disqus or the themes I use: Trackbacks are cleared for landing in my admin discussion area, in Disqus too. They show up on the admin side. But I can’t get them to show on the individual post. Makes me really unhappy. I accept trackbacks by visiting the generating site, first. So I want people to see them in my comments.
  2. My WPTouch plugin from Brave Nu Code doesn’t show comments count on my iPhone.
  3. On my main page comments count displays 0 comments or leave a comment. It doesn’t use the other possibilities of 1 comment or # comments when I get one, or two.
  4. I don’t know how to fix all this and I really want to. I lose sleep over this and I can’t get a fast enough response from the makers of the themes, the plugins and the other apps that might be causing the issue.
  5. Even techies’ sweetheart browser, Firefox kept crashing on me. I’ve switched to Chrome until a newer version comes out, or until Ihave time to get back my previous version.

Letting it Go—For Now

These issues are on two of my blogs, this one and Telling Stories, running two very different themes (F2 here and Red Line on the other). I’m hoping it not issues with the themes because I like both very much, even upgraded to the most recent versions.

The worst part is I have to let it go because I have to get to work on other important things. I don’t have all day to work on it, so it’ll probably keep me up again tonight. I won’t be able to really crawl into the guts of this until the weekend, if I force myself to get my rest.

So, for now, and since when I don’t know, I have to forego proper reciprocity of showing my trackbacks. It’s really frustrating to know just enough to get into trouble, and not enough to get out of it.

I don’t feel like yelling at anyone about it. Really, I just wish I could fix things. What about you? What do you do with your tech issues that you can’t fix? Are you polite and patient?

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Mar 13

7 relaxation tips and why they work

This the 9th and final installment of the healthy habits for writers series.

Relaxation is not a luxury but a requirement to have your best life. All the money in the world does not make a happy full life if you don’t have your best health. School administrators, employers, physicians, clergy, people from all walks of life espouse the importance of relaxation.

Watching television, unplugging from the internet, turning off the phones are good things to do from time to time. But, it takes a little more effort to really get relaxed. Focused relaxations are very powerful in positively influencing your life. There are lots of things you can do. There are many ways you can relax and variations on most of them. I’m sharing with you seven that I’ve used.

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Mar 12

7 benefits of keeping a writing schedule

This the 8th installment of the healthy habits for writers series.

It’s important to know where you’ve been. It’s why we study history. Well—in theory it’s why we study history. The idea is that we should be able to operate within the parameters of out present, knowing what’s happened in our past and allowing for the variables that present with time and people.

To extend that further: if you know where you’ve been and have a decent handle on where you are, then you should be able to plan into the future. That’s how I follow it anyway. But why do that?

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Mar 11

healthy habits: 7 exercises for writers

This the 7th installment of the healthy habits for writers series.

How often have you worked an entire day only to realize that you are stiff and fully spent? It’s as though you went to a gym and worked out for hours— the stiffness only though. You don’t have any of the burn, or the afterglow feeling of having put in a good workout.

The reason is because you didn’t. That afterglow feeling is from the release of endorphins. And you don’t get it from sitting still. Your muscles are stiff from inaction and being sedentary for long hours. Before you say it, no, getting up and out for lunch, putting in and pulling out your chair, and lifting heavy foods with a mere fork don’t count as workout activities.

If you sit for hours at a time in front of a computer screen, if you’re not as young as you used to be, if you don’t have thirty young students you run behind, or one or two active children of your own, you may need to do more than groom, and eat, and walk to the door.

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Mar 08

time out from twitter

I was on my way to being a Twitter aficionado. I say that–really I was just on my way to using it a lot. I kept TweetDeck open most of the day, tried to remember to tweet about what I was reading, stuff I did (within reason), and re-tweet (RT) things that captured my attention. I was on everyday. And every day I was on, I saw power tweeters, no matter what time of day I was on. It was amazing to see this.

These guys weren’t auto-tweeters either. Well, if they were, it was a very sophisticated application they were running. At one point, I followed back an account that followed me. He would auto tweet the same tweets in a cycle and all were related to his site. I let this go on for a week before I finally unfollowed his account. So, I have an idea what cheesy auto-tweeters can look like.

The people I follow are creative writers, poets, news personalities, IT, marketing, and social media gurus, and more. They are people who want to share what they read, write and are busy doing. Sounds reasonable, right? So, what pushed me away?

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