What Fires You Up?

8/31/2002

 

Yes, that worked just fine! I had to have blog's number sent out in the blog invitation as a link - the one that is in the post below link If you have already registered for a blogger account in your own name, you MAY need a fresh invite from this blog to make the name of this blog show up for you when you login with your own name. Try clicking on this link above to get in and "accept" this blog. If an "uh-oh" error message comes up, that means you have to let me know so cobalt can send out a "re-invite" with a link that works for you. Remember, no one needs to register with blogger if they don't mind posts coming out with my byline as poster - that's how a Team Blog works here on blogger and the reason why I suggested folks sign their abuzz nickname in their post so we know who you are... * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * *

BJ 8/31/2002 03:34:00 PM

 

This post is my experiment to see what happens when a blog invite goes out to you. I think I am finding out that it is very important to click on the link that is in the invitation! When you click on it, you will be asked if you want to join this blog. As someone who is not registering for their own account, use the login of firedup and the password of abuzz. If you are registering as a new member to blogger, you can do it right on that same page. It's still important to use that link supplied in the invite, so that you will see the What Fires You Up? in your list of blogs the next time you login to blogger. The blog Id is: http://www.blogger.com/invite.pyra?invID=PE9764326347A7343CF5694544 link Now, I will try to get into this blog using just the invite link and see what happens... BTW, I "joined" again as green2texas... with the name BJ Cobalt

BJ 8/31/2002 03:21:00 PM

8/30/2002

 

Good Morning to Fired Up Folks! Hope some of *us* are checking in today and through the long holiday weekend. Since abuzz is down again, this is at least a way we can register that we are still alive, LOL! I found a word on the Word Spy newsletter I get with the Word of the Day: banalysis Can you imagine what that means? LOL, again... bbl * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * *

BJ 8/30/2002 07:46:00 AM

8/29/2002

 

Hey, we were posting at the same time! Have fun on your trip, yourself, my friend! * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * *

BJ 8/29/2002 08:57:00 PM

 

tried saving the link - it worked much better than my other routes. thanks for the tip, b.j. now to figure out how to figure out (yeah that's brilliant) when things are happening here! i fly out to boston tomorrow morning, so i'll poke away at it more on my return. good luck with the training and the job, b.j. beth

Anonymous 8/29/2002 08:52:00 PM

 

Eh Beth! Good efforts my dear! You hit on what I do when online- keep two or more windows open at any one time. When in doubt, just make sure that the URL of this blog is in your browser "Favorites" or "Bookmarked" as http://firedup.blogspot.com Once you see the blog, by going to the link to blogger you will be able to login and you will select the What Fires You Up? blog if it is shown in your blog list. It will show up right under where you login if you have accepted the invitation sent from the blog. If you join blogger independently so that your posts in this Team blog will automatically have your signature as a byline when you post, then eh Beth found out that you need a "fresh" invite from the blog to be listed as a Team Member and have the site show up upon login to blogger. Somehow mmediane, Elio, wh3, eh Beth, morganwood, Peace and Love, and semiotterly all made it into the blog and posted. Who knows if they will find their ways BACK in - LOL! To link to another weblog, site or blog, just put the URL as usual into your post here. Then, if you write a little bit about why you posted it, you can highlight a few of your words, click the link icon, and your pop-up window will show for you to put the address for the link. Clicking "ok" will make it an active link. Post & Publish will finish out the post. On to investigate other sites (like - is abuzz still out?) and return about midnight, my time in Central Be Well, * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * *

BJ 8/29/2002 08:39:00 PM

 

when i was trying to sign up and be part of what fires you up - i had to open two windows - otherwise, i couldn't find my way back to this blog after i'd signed up. a bit puzzling, but a bit less so than a week or so ago. i'd say it's not entirely intuitive. off to check the abuzz team's care2 #'s.

Anonymous 8/29/2002 06:07:00 PM

 

slowly slowly getting the hang of this. ended up in a different blog site when i tried to find my way back. it's an interesting weblog world out there. i'd link back to the other blog site, but that's a bit beyond tonight's abilities.

Anonymous 8/29/2002 06:00:00 PM

 

For me has been down for about 3 hours. If anyone else is getting in it, let me know, ok? You can update here in this blog or you can email me at one of several addresses. Good thing that we are at least able to access this blog now - eh? I know it is mystifying for some folks, but at least you can read it all the time if you aren't interested in posting. And that's ok! If you want to pass along something for me to post, no prob! Hope to see you all online in abuzz soon, and if not there then *here* * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * *

BJ 8/29/2002 05:34:00 PM

 

Elio: http://firedup.blogspot.com The password for the Team Members was given by email and earlier in the posts. Your own password - well, that would be a mystery, lol Thanks for writing! * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * *

BJ 8/29/2002 01:39:00 PM

 

Cobalt - ok I signed up but a couple issues - 1. I could not find firedup 2. now I forgot my PW - LOL Elio

BJ 8/29/2002 01:20:00 PM

 

http://www.epic.org/ Electronic Privacy Information Center Latest news, search, fascinating publications Thanks to an overseas friend for sending this along today! I also got a link to some new software targeting families who want to 'spy' on their own family members! An example is a wife who 'finally got proof' that her husband is a "pervert". The three versions of the software include remote email reports sent to the owner, elsewhere, and screen shots taken a hundred times an hour, and every keystroke also recorded. Of course every photo viewed and / or downloaded is also recorded in the reports. Gee for only $99, you too can be a spy extraordinaire... * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * *

BJ 8/29/2002 12:50:00 PM

8/28/2002

 

WWJD? This came from PopCultureJunkMail's blog today: What Would Jesus Drive? For those who want the URL for that page, it is http://www.highrock.com/personal/WWJD/ * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * *

BJ 8/28/2002 08:17:00 PM

 

Team Members: There are now 9 of us that are "registered". When you click on the Team icon in the toolbar, you will see the list of members and those that have been invited. This information is confidential to Fired Up Folks. I've made all 9 of us that have first registered here "administrators". This means the 9 of us 'here' already are able to delete, edit and change blog properties. Now, I'd suggest no one even think about touching the blog properties for this blog, but it may be interesting for you to click on that icon for Template so you can see what the html code for this blog is. In Archive, you can go back to the very beginning a few weeks ago and there you will find my first stumbling attempts at figuring out all this. There is some useful info there, if you click on "archives" which is linked at the bottom of the blog. I made the settings for the blog to show the last five days at a time. After that, you have to go backwards into the archives. When I get a lil more larnin' in me, I will find a way to link backwards into this blog so that members can quickly get an answer to questions like Piffka posted tonight. * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * *

BJ 8/28/2002 08:14:00 PM

 

Ha ha ha, Piffka! I see you are learning your way around this blog dealie-bobber, lol! Post will get your post that you are creating into a 'draft' or save mode that you can come back to later on and add to it or change spelling or whatever. If you posted and published at the very same time, that is the icon labelled "Post & Publish". I almost always use the Post & Publish since it is so easy later on to edit your posts if you spot a typo. Not that I have ever spotted a typo, ha ha ha ha! On changing your name to Piffka, that I am not sure of. Perhaps you can change your preferences or settings somehow? There is a "Help" feature with http://www.blogger.com that may have this covered. Or, look in the "discuss" area of the forums in blogger. If nothing else works, hey, re-register all over again? I will try to find out for you... * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * *

BJ 8/28/2002 08:06:00 PM

 

Oh, OK. I remember reading about that. No more news on the aliens??

Anonymous 8/28/2002 04:54:00 PM

 

How can I get this to call me Piffka?

Anonymous 8/28/2002 04:51:00 PM

 

What UFO?????

Anonymous 8/28/2002 04:50:00 PM

 

Aha. I see. What's the difference between Post & Publish?

Anonymous 8/28/2002 04:50:00 PM

 

what?

Anonymous 8/28/2002 04:50:00 PM

 

When you are creating a post in the text box, successful links look like a long long URL address within some "tags". Do you see my words below (yourhighted words) ? To me it looks different in the text box while I am typing this message. That's because anything you are creating with an active link will look to you as the actual html code! yourhighlighted words Here is Elio's link to the UFO in India UFO in India are the words I highlighted in the post I was making, and then clicked on the link icon in the toolbar. (I clicked on the link icon to get the pop-up link box. Then I typed these two keys at the very same time, control and v (these two keys must be clicked together or they will not work) and then click "ok". Then the UFO in India part of the sentence appears in "bold", underlined. When you hover over it, or click on it, the color of the words shows purple, the style I made to show links that are active ('clickable'). UFO in India will not look like the words (UFO in India) to you while you are creating your post. It will look like html code with this first part of < a and then and ref= and then "http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/08/20/india.ufo.ap/index.html " and then >UFO in India and then < and then /a and then > at the very end of the code. A "tag" is the html code that goes in front of your information and at the end of your information. A tag is the directions html code uses to "look" a certain way on a web page. It's hard for me to type here for you the whole link that shows up to you when you are looking at the post you are creating in order to demonstrate, but hopefully, you are getting the picture! I swear that this is really easy when you just play around a bit and click on that link icon, LOL! * * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * * *

BJ 8/28/2002 03:08:00 PM

 

Here is Elio's link to the UFO in India * * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * * *

BJ 8/28/2002 02:34:00 PM

 

Hey There Elio! Nice to see you! Here is how you make a link that is highlighted and clickable: from the addressline of the page you want to link (the URL), copy it by click and drag or right-click on the end of it then, go into the "Post to What Fires You Up? section when you've logged into this blog. (I keep several windows open at the same time) When you are in the split page for the blog, in the text box area you will see the gray toolbar above the white box to type in. Now, see the icons over to the right in that gray toolbar? There is a little icon for links, which is a globe with tiny binoculars. It's next to the B and I... When you click on the link icon, a pop-up box will appear and you will see this in the type entry line: http:// Now, IF you have copied the address from the other page, just type at the same time. Click "OK" and it will automatically appear in your post as a highlighted link! IF YOU HAVEN'T COPIED THE ADDRESS from the other page, you can manually type the address into that pop-up text entry line. Then click "OK" and it will appear. Confusing? You will get the hang of it, just try it out. The great thing about this blog is that all your posts can be re-done as in re-published by editing it over again, and you can even delete a post if you want to do that. I learned this by playing around here. Good luck and go ahead and ask questions when you need to! Be Well, * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * *

BJ 8/28/2002 02:30:00 PM

 

yikes that was me elio! ;-)

BJ 8/28/2002 01:47:00 PM

 

UFO in India??? http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/08/20/india.ufo.ap/index.html

BJ 8/28/2002 01:46:00 PM

 

A "hit counter" that now counts each time one of us comes into this blog has been added to the site. Let's see if you can find it! Um... just in case you are wondering, there is no prize for successful searchers, just the satisfaction of knowing you (ready?) count !!! * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * *

BJ 8/28/2002 12:55:00 PM

 

Hello folks I've sent an email out from my private email to each person I think is interested in this blog. The mail was sent as bcc: for security and people receiving the emails are not getting the actual email addresses of the others. Some of *us* know each other better than others, and some of us share email addresses while others do not. Be sure to let me know if you want to be taken out of my list of interested folks, so I don't accidentally send you any blog info and clog your inbox! Thanks! * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * *

BJ 8/28/2002 09:45:00 AM

 

Important note to our Fired Up Folks: I think abuzz is 'having problems' again. The servers are slow and the opening pages, if they open, are 'acting funny' as in the entire screen goes dark blue with just the headers and footers appearing normally. Here is the link to Part 24, the most recent thread. http://nytimes.abuzz.com/interaction/s.2860131/discussion/ Link When (and if) abuzz starts to act reliably again (I know, I know: an oxymoron, right?) I will be starting Part 25, hopefully today... Just in case my last post to the thread 'caused' the problem, here is the post so you can see why I am just a little nervous: Journey of another sort entirely: anyone else fired up (and not in a 'good' way) about the leaks and articles about the "container transport" of surrendered Taliban fighters and rapidly-growing spin campaigns with drums of war centered on Iraq? In the last three days or so, war justifications have been proliferating everywhere as a 'mandate' (my word) to topple more regimes elsewhere. The ties to the approaching 9-11 anniversary cannot be missed. Are we to memorialize (USA) by going after revenge, concentrate on a controlled media with the current governments 'agenda' and justify another 'war'? And the need to discuss this with Congress is not paramount on the "need to do" checklist? Just for our fired up friends over seas and across borders, this writer is still not seeing the support of the majority of the American public, and I live in the stomping grounds of Pres and VP. The quotes of 'surveys' that show 70% or 80% or 90% of the American public in support? I still am not seeing it. I do see the anti-war protests and activities starting to rev up again, and shall look overseas perhaps to read and view coverage of this. Maybe the Kurier paper and the BBC... certainly I am not going to hold my breath to see accurate coverage on NBC or CNN. Grrrr! Well ... now you can see my concern? * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * *

BJ 8/28/2002 06:47:00 AM

8/27/2002

 

http://www.hamsters-uk.org/ National Hamster Council The NHC is the world's oldest Hamster Council. hehehhehehe, this is SERIOUSLY a site and a group! * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * *

BJ 8/27/2002 11:51:00 AM

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2218755.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2218755.stm Girl Gets Hit By Meteorite in England This is a fun article from the BBC News today. Picked up from (where else) another blog.

BJ 8/27/2002 11:47:00 AM

 

Tuscany's Cucina Rustica My son, Chef Cameron is pictured in this web page for the Downton Mesa Dining Guide, August 2002! http://www.mesatowncenter.com/places_to_dine.htm Link to the web page He's just changed the menu this month to feature more of his creations and Mom is still waiting for that menu he said he'd send me, lol * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * *

BJ 8/27/2002 11:35:00 AM

8/26/2002

 

Chicago Reader > The Straight Dope columns > August 22, 2002 link Which came first, Dick or dick?

BJ 8/26/2002 04:52:00 PM

 

William Safire in the NYTimes Sunday magazine - well-known esssayist on semantics and linguistics http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/28/magazine/28ONLANGUAGE.html What a loser! Right, have an old phart write an essay about blogs and offer his opinions about them, and he really doesn't have a clue as to what they are. The funniest line is when he says he doesn't have a blog because he doesn't want people to know what he thinks ... uh, and what about all the political agenda you advance in your column in the guise of lexicology?

BJ 8/26/2002 10:39:00 AM

 

Glad to find a way to put a link to both my hotmail and care2 emails in this blog. Look to the very bottom of the page, and you will see links to Blogger, two email links to me, a link to the Home page, and a link to the Archives of this blog. A fast way to navigate is to type at the same time and you will quickly be to those links. If you are reading this blog and wish to login to this blog account or any other account, use that link at the bottom - easy easy! If you wish to write this author at her personal email address, I accept mail there only from family and personal friends. If you would like to share something to be posted, also send me the information by email, as one of our friends did today... * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * *

BJ 8/26/2002 09:13:00 AM

 

This just in from one of our fired up ladies overseas - White House information page with the American Patriot form we must complete and send to John Ashcroft.... * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * *

BJ 8/26/2002 08:30:00 AM

 

Know what a merkin is? Readers of Noddy's thread that discusses uncommon words now know in great detail and also hilarity just what it is or shall I say 'was'? The Straight Dope from the Chicago Reader gives the lowdown, heh heh, as it were... BTW, The Straight Dope's subtitle is: Fighting Ignorance Since 1973 (It's Taking Longer Than We Thought) The link is to the old columns by Cecil Adams. It seems to have ceased online as of October 2000, but there are links to continuing blogs and friends: teemings is the "ezine to the straight dope community", and the Chicago Reader still runs the column by Cecil Adams, The World's Smartest Human: "The Straight Dope The authorized WWW home of legendary answer-man Cecil Adams, World’s Smartest Human, whose syndicated column has been enlightening readers of the Reader and other alternative newspapers since 1973. No question too weird! In addition to the weekly column there are FAQs and figures on the Cecil legend, an archive of past columns, a hyper-active message board and of course the demented artwork of Slug Signorino. " The "hyperactive" message board is indeed fascinating, and an offshoot of the "teeming millions" site. Enjoy! * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * *

BJ 8/26/2002 07:19:00 AM

8/25/2002

 

Been a long weekend, with mostly terrific times and many laughs. Thanks to friends over seas who sent delightful photos of their recent vacation in the South, along the coast! I turned 51 on Friday, and surprisingly and thankfully, it was a great day. The Dillo and I went out for a great dinner in an Italian restaurant we like. The meal was delightful and filling, the wine a pleasure, and I note that we seem to have thoroughly entertained our three waitresses. Hearing one sing "Happy Birthday" in Italian - such a sweet song in that language! Saturday found us out with a friend, for what we thought would be an afternoon, yet we returned home about 1 am, and went here, there, everywhere. Today, Sunday, it was a hard day of "shop till you drop" and I came home with needed clothing for my new job upcoming. Training in Michigan will necessitate packable clothing that can layer up, layer down, and dress up and dress down. So, do the men in our group of friends know what on earth it is that I am talking about? Ha ha! Tonight Dillo and I went over to his mother's home and spent fun hours eating a complete, savory meal, talked with his cousin and his wife and I met Dillo's Big Sis, for the first time. She's on her way to Pennsylvania, by plane, stopping off here for a couple days on her way from California to out East. Something about a terrific job, a humungous raise, cost of living waaaaay lower: all that makes it a good move for her. Nice to spend the evening talking and laughing with friends, however they shape up to be (yes, even family!). * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * *

BJ 8/25/2002 10:55:00 PM