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8/10/2002
Well, well, well, ugh. Here I am alone in cyberspace on a Saturday night, late, finding confusion and Crones. BJ must think I am into speed reading and site navigation. My eyes are droopy, and I wonder why in the world an ADD person such as moi would take on something this heady. I assume I'm just a stubborn guy who loves "Fired Up" folks and the challenge of a new site. Now, let's see if this will post . . .and if it does, I assume I will take Sandra's advice and use www.blogger.com to find my way back. That is, if I can remember any of this. BJ, you have blurred my brain with all this cyberwocky, but I love you for lots of reasons, including the blogger invite. From wh3, of all people.
Anonymous 8/10/2002 09:44:00 PM
Well, the invite has now gone out to Crones who are interested in the Fired Up thread. I've sent out about 15 invites, and sent the URL out to the Crones, but we shall see if anyone ventures in! Don't worry about learning much computer stuff to use this posting site. Basically, you can always read it when you want to read it. To interact, you will go to the site, then click on the Blogspot logo up in the top area. The homepage of Blogspot has a link to the Blogger which I use as a free service for this blog. When you click on blogger on this page, you may sign in as firedup and password as abuzz. Then, a special posting page comes on the screen for you. To get it published into the blog, you just click on the Post & Publish icon on the Post to What Fires You Up? toolbar. If you want to post something, and then edit it or work on it later, just click on Post. Then, you will see below on the bottom part of the page the blue word 'edit' that will let you go back and correct spelling or whatever. *cobalt*
BJ 8/10/2002 04:35:00 PM
boing boing is a well-known blog that has all variety of posts made by it's members. You just never know where you will be ending up when you go to this site.
BJ 8/10/2002 12:27:00 PM
For anyone ready to try sharing your web pages that are interesting, here is the method: 1. Open up another window in your browser and go to the site you wish to add as a link to our What Fires You Up? blog 2. In the address line, right-click on the very end of the address. You will see a drop-down menu to select3. Now, click on the bottom toolbar to get back into Edit your blog 4. Go ahead and type anything you want to post, using normal language. Don't worry about copying the link yet. 5. After you are done typing, using your mouse, click and drag-to-highlight any words you wish to hyperlink to your web page you are sharing with us. 6. While the words are highlighted, click on the hyperlink icon in the toolbar above your text box: it is the little globe symbol with the binocular lenses. A menu will pop up, with a field line blinking with 'http://'. Now, type this on your keyboard: control then v (this is using the manual keyboard method of pasting also termed control+v). 7. Click on 'ok' and you are ready to post!
BJ 8/10/2002 12:25:00 PM
This is to the Alt-Log, a blog from a woman on yahoo who has a popculture blog and this blog. ******************* Salon used to run a column called Alt, which highlighted stories from that week's crop of alternative weeklies from all around the country. I loved it. They've stopped running it, so I've decided to highlight my own favorites from the week here. Not every alt-weekly will be represented every week (obviously), and the choice of stories is purely based on what interests me. ************************************* This is a link to the popculturejunkmail site by the same author: August 2002 Junk Mail Pop Culture Junk Mail features links to pop-culture-themed web sites. Favorite topics include trashy TV, British royalty, the 1980s, toys, movies, cats, makeup, weird food and more. *********************** herdofsheep is a parody blog with fun links *********************** This link is to Breaking News, which is in process of converting to a bigger, better site. *********************** The Bitter Shack of Resentment *********************** The Neurotic Fishbowl That is My Life This one is a typical blog, and I do enjoy the author's links and being a voyeur to her thoughts. *********************** Jim's Words / Writers' Links is a nice reference site for eclectic quotes. *********************** desultory engine is well-maintained and has great news links. Current links of the last week are in particular very good to read. *********************** Well this should give you all a good idea of the blogger's world. It goes on and on and on and on and
BJ 8/10/2002 12:14:00 PM
Land of the Dead is the blog of Wiley Wiggins, an artist, actor, playwright and musician This is the link for a directory of weblog.com blogs that update chronologically. I find some great blogs this way.
BJ 8/10/2002 11:58:00 AM
Success! Now I am ready to start inviting abuzz friends *in* the blog! Neato!
BJ 8/10/2002 11:45:00 AM
Butterfly/Songs of the open prairie, by Elbert Lee More Butterfly links Yet more links for Elbert Lee Biography page for Elbert Lee 7th Avenue & Grove interactive Role Playing Game by Elbert Lee Awesome link for more graphics and other Elbert Lee stuff! Virtual World Design provided at Rubbaducki copycopycopycopycopy *********************************************************** While not yet widely appreciated as an art form, virtual worldmaking is most certainly an industry and a profitable one. From the special effects of movies to the huge and complex realms that are now the standard in computer gaming, there are many people working and playing with these graphic techniques. WEL Built World's is designer Elbert Lee's ongoing factory of virtual mapping and furnishing. He has developed a system, Mythforge™, that makes it possible for solo authors and small houses to develop large complex and eventful computer defined universes. The current WBW projects are: 7th & Grove: the mapping, furnishing and rendering of a virtual city block, on a grant from The Metropolitan Historical Council and Selif the Giant Slayer and the Sword of Clouds.The design and virtual implementation of a large continent with several cities for a complex interactive simulation by author TWO'Keefe **************************************** Here is the link for the page described above: Virtual World Design
BJ 8/10/2002 11:31:00 AM
Wellbuilt Worlds homepage Efolkmusic page for HCE/Squeedleboink
BJ 8/10/2002 11:29:00 AM
Here are links to Elbert Lee's music and graphics website. Rubbaducki will take you fun places!
BJ 8/10/2002 11:27:00 AM
Now I think I may have the hang of it. You just type anything you want to type about and then highlight any words. When you do that, and THEN click on the URL icon in the toolbar, the pop-up menu will appear. Then add your link and voila! Here is a sample of this link technique.
BJ 8/10/2002 11:24:00 AM
http://www.despair.com/
BJ 8/10/2002 10:40:00 AM
Not too sure about this - is this going to a discussion forum or the blog? I haven't figured out yet how to get the hyperlink into my text. When I click on the hyperlink icon in the blogger toolbar, a pop-up menu comes up and allows me to copy in the address. When it posts, it just posts as usual, not 'clickable'. Ideas?
BJ 8/10/2002 10:39:00 AM
Archives are pages that are generated that contain posts. They contain all of your posts, including those that may have fallen off of your front page. Also, an archive index page is generated that contains links to all of your archive pages. Archive index vs. Archive pages The archive index page will not contain previous posts. It will contain links to pages that contain previous posts. You can customize a template for the archive index page only (by clicking on "archive template" in the upper right. The archive pages that contain posts will use the same template as your main blog page. Now depending on which time period for archiving you've chosen, you'll see a table of start and end dates. You can archive certain weeks/months by clicking the "archive now" button next to the time period, you can remove the link to that time period by clicking "remove from index", or you can archive all possible pages by clicking "archive all" at the bottom of the page. Your archive index filename should be different from your main page filename. Pages Generated Archiving does not remove posts from your main page. It provides a permanent place to reference every post. (To control what you see on the main page, you can change the Formatting properties in your Settings.) You can think of archiving and the main page as two separate activities. They are not related in any way...other than they use the same data. Whenever you archive one or all of the pages, Blogger generates the page(s) that contain the posts of the specified time period and sends it via FTP to your server. The pages are named [start date]_[archive index name]. It also generates the archive index page and sends that via FTP. Plus, whenever you make a new post to your blog it will automatically update the archive page that post falls on. For example, you have a blog with monthly archiving turned on. If today is the 25th of February and you make a post, it will show up on the front page. It will also show up in the February archive at the same time. (so there is always a permanent home for a post.) You can automatically link to each post's archive location with permanent links. NOTE: When you change your blog formatting (number of posts, date heading format, etc.) your archives will be reset. To recreate your archives with the new formatting, click "archive all". Bringing it Together To add a link to your archives, place a link in your main page template. (eg. my archives) For further help, or to ask questions or give feedback on Blogger, please use the Blogger discussion forum.
BJ 8/10/2002 10:31:00 AM
bloggerTags The main part of this template feature is the formatting bloggerTags. Here's what they look like:As you can see, it looks a lot like HTML. One difference between these tags and HTML is that case is important. When using your template, blogger only looks for bloggerTags between <$BlogDateHeaderDate$> <$BlogItemBody$> <$BlogItemAuthor$> <$BlogItemAuthorNickname$> <$BlogItemAuthorEmail$> <$BlogItemAuthorURL$> <$BlogItemDateTime$> <$BlogItemNumber$>and . You can include HTML in here too. Or ASP Code. Or Cold Fusion Code. Or whatever works on your server. For every entry in your weblog, the code between the blogger tags will be used to format how they will display. For example, the following bloggerTags:<$BlogItemBody$> Would produce the following output: Hi. this is a blogger entry. posted by pb on 8/21/99 7:20:04 PM I find this whole blogger thing interesting. posted by ev on 8/21/99 6:25:12 PM I'm not sure I like gainsboro as my font color. posted by pb on 8/20/99 5:15:12 PM Each tag corrosponds to information about each post. The tags are fairly self-explanitory: <$BlogItemBody$> - The text of a post. <$BlogItemAuthor$> - The author of a post. <$BlogItemAuthorNickname$> - The nickname of the author of a post. <$BlogItemAuthorEmail$> - The email address of the author of a post. <$BlogItemAuthorURL$> - The homepage URL of the author of a post. <$BlogItemDateTime$> - The Date and/or Time of a post. You can choose how this will display in Blog properties. <$BlogItemNumber$> - The unique ID number of the post. <$BlogItemURL$> - The URL associated with the post if you have URL enabled. Just a reminder, case is important when using the tags. The tag <$BlogItemBody$> will work while the tag <$BLOGItemBODY$> will not. Date Header The code between the
posted by <$BlogItemAuthor$> on <$BlogItemDateTime$>
tags work a little differently. This code is used to group posts together under a common date heading. It is only used when the date changes. So, this: would come up with this: Saturday, August 21, 1999 Hi. this is a blogger entry. posted by pb on 8/21/99 7:20:04 PM I find this whole blogger thing interesting. posted by ev on 8/21/99 6:25:12 PM Saturday, August 20, 1999 I'm not sure I like gainsboro as my font color. posted by pb on 8/20/99 5:15:12 PM The only tag that has a value here is: <$BlogDateHeaderDate$> - The date itself. You can choose the way the Date Header will display in Blog Properties. You don't need to have the Date Header at all if you don't want to group posts this way. Date Footer This works the same way as the Date Header, but there are no value tags associated with it. Here's the example from above with an added footer: <$BlogItemBody$> <$BlogDateHeaderDate$>
posted by <$BlogItemAuthor$> on <$BlogItemDateTime$>
and we have: Saturday, August 21, 1999 Hi. this is a blogger entry. posted by pb on 8/21/99 7:20:04 PM I find this whole blogger thing interesting. posted by ev on 8/21/99 6:25:12 PM -------------------- Saturday, August 20, 1999 I'm not sure I like gainsboro as my font color. posted by pb on 8/20/99 5:15:12 PM -------------------- A note about ampersands and JavaScript Yes, the most dreaded character on the keyboard, &. Because of certain limitations related to editing text documents in a browser, we've had to make some trade-offs with ampersands. HTML character entities (eg. ©) use ampersands. To allow you to edit character entities in the Blogger template form above, we've stopped the browser from converting © to © by escaping the ampersand. That's great if you're using HTML character entities in your template. That's bad if you're using JavaScript or certain other scripting languages in your template. JavaScript uses the character & for a number of purposes. Those purposes have nothing to do with HTML character entities. It operates in a completely different way. So, bringing up your template to edit *again* within Blogger will convert any & to &. This may break any JavaScript that uses ampersands. Possible solutions: 1) Place your JavaScript in a separate text file, and include it in your template like this: . 2) Don't edit your template from within Blogger. Use a separate editing program (eg. Notepad, Homesite, Word, etc.) and paste your template in the form above. (Remember, the only time a transformation of ampersands happens is when you bring up your template to edit within Blogger.) 3) In some scripts, using the character + instead of & is acceptable. Ok, go! We wanted you to be able to plug blogger's functionality into your own crazy nested tables with your own crazy fonts and colors and blink tags and whatnot. Easy and fun! Make your template. Hit Save. Start blogging! For further help, or to ask questions or give feedback on Blogger, please use the Blogger discussion forum. back to the template. <$BlogItemBody$> <$BlogDateHeaderDate$>
posted by <$BlogItemAuthor$> on <$BlogItemDateTime$>
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BJ 8/10/2002 10:14:00 AM
How do I add a permanent links to a blog? Answer Permanent links allow other people with websites or blogs to link directly to certain posts you've made on your own blog, and without fear that the post will slide off your front page and no longer be accessible. It is done by linking to a post at its archived location, which won't change. You'll need to have archives enabled on your blog so that each post will have that permanent home. All you'll need to do is to make sure you have a few specific tags in your template. You'll be adding one new tag to your template, which is the <$BlogItemArchiveFileName$> tag. When you publish your blog, this tag will be replaced with the name of the archive file where the linked post will be permanently located. Used in conjunction with the <$BlogItemNumber$> tag, it's an easy way to link to individual posts. These tags must be located within thetags, but can not be within the tags or tags. Sign in to Blogger with your username and password. Select the blog you'd like to work with and select Settings. Make sure you have archiving enabled and that you have an archive name specified. When this is done, click on Template. Locate the section of your blog template where the <$BlogItem$> information is located, then add in the two tags, similar to the format below: <$BlogScript$> Note the addition of the tag at the top of each post. This will enable you to point to the exact post in the archive. If you laid out the formatting exactly like the example above, you'd get the following output, with 'link' pointing to its permanent home: Saturday, August 21, 1999 What's up with all these pigeons? posted by Bert on 8/21/82 7:20:04 PM | link Rubber ducky, I love you. posted by Ernie on 8/21/82 6:25:12 PM | link -------------------- Saturday, August 20, 1999 I wonder if Ernie is in the bathtub again. posted by Bert on 8/20/82 5:15:12 PM | link -------------------- Important note: You will need to add some path information to the link if you keep your archives in a different directory. By naming your full URL, you ensure that the path is valid no matter what directory the file is in. Here's an example: link <$BlogItemBody$> <$BlogDateHeaderDate$>
posted by <$BlogItemAuthor$> on <$BlogItemDateTime$> | link
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BJ 8/10/2002 10:07:00 AM
http://asylumeclectica.com/gruesome/#gore I'd like to learn how to make the links go into text, hmmmm, only a matter of time and playing around, I guess. The link above is for a Dark and Gruesome Links page for surfing....sometimes you need a lil bizarre in your life to make the boring seem so much nicer! Beej
BJ 8/10/2002 09:55:00 AM
Hi There! Just logging in this am and found you here - so nice! Doesn't take long to load, does it. I will do my playing around here and figure out how to add some easy bells and whistles. This will be a good, free, and reliable place for Fired Up folks in rocky times with abuzz.com... Nice to seeya Sandra! Beej
BJ 8/10/2002 09:49:00 AM
8/09/2002
Hi cobalt!! I found my way back..... by typing www.blogger.com Too Easy!! Now I can save this to my 'favorites'. Thanks for inviting me! Peace and Love Sandra
Anonymous 8/09/2002 06:08:00 PM
Hi cobalt!! Because I came here from Hotmail, I cannot read the website address. I hope I can find my way back! (When I tried to save this site in my 'favorites', the name showed up as 'Hotmail'.) My favorite game at Pogo.com is "Word Whomp"! Peace and Love Sandra
Anonymous 8/09/2002 06:00:00 PM
A link to try out the function of the icon with the globe/binocular lenses in the toolbar: http://www.pogo.com Well, that one is the link for a fun online game site I like to inhabit on occasion. The "Poppit", "Sweet Tooth" and "Turbo21" games are just about addictive.
BJ 8/09/2002 04:50:00 PM
First post for the What Fires You Up? weblog for Fired Up Folks, a community of online friends through abuzz.com, a posting forum affiliated with the NY Times. This will take a bit of tweaking, so bear with me friends! cobalt
BJ 8/09/2002 04:46:00 PM