I just saw a comment that Blogger's UI hasn't had much TLC lately. What lately is is a matter of judgement, of course. I'd say that Blogger's UI has changed a lot since I started using it. It was getting better, though still not as good as Wordpress.com.
One thing I don't like about Blogger and Google services in general lately is the "One identity for all Google services" and merging Google service into Google+.
This post is primarily just me trying to see what the current incarnation of Blogger looks and works like. Certainly it doesn't look like a separate service from the rest of Google. I have not integrated this blog with Google+ yet.
One nice thing Blogger has that Wordpress.com doesn't is the potential to have ads on your blog and thereby make money. I'm bet that 99% of Blogger blogs don't make a dime but there is the potential to generate revenue with very little effort on the writer's part on the advertising, leaving the writer free to write.
I wish I liked the UI for Google + better. I loathe it's UI on my desktop Windows Firefox system so much that having other Google services integrated with it is a big hit against the other Google services.
I think fairly often of closing my Google accounts completely, but the Gmail account, despite the cruddy compose UI it has now, would be annoying to switch over to another service.
I remember using this blog before it had the ability to insert a page jump. It's changed a lot since then.
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Friday, September 20, 2013
Sure would be nice to find a job doing *something* on a computer.
I liked designing signs fairly well. I enjoy fiddling with social media sites. It would be great to find a job doing something on a computer.
Right this minute I'm taking a break from my normal tendency to stay on twitter too much.
Right this minute I'm taking a break from my normal tendency to stay on twitter too much.
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Virtual worlds are transient things. Not very worldlike of them.
I had links to all the places below in 2009 when I abandoned this site. I'm not sure how many of those links were working then, but as off now, Hipihi, Novoking, There, Twinity, and Vivaty are gone.
Active Worlds
Exit Reality
Hipihi
IMVU
Kaneva
Novoking
Second Life
SLUniverse - Snapzilla SL pictures, forum & more
There
Twinity
Vivaty
Active Worlds
Exit Reality
Hipihi
IMVU
Kaneva
Novoking
Second Life
SLUniverse - Snapzilla SL pictures, forum & more
There
Twinity
Vivaty
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Refugee - "Gatecrasher / Ritt Mickley" - Patrick Moraz on keyboards
I had this record back when records were actually records. Listened to through Dynaco speakers and a Scott receiver. Probably a Garrard Turntable and an ADC cartridge.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Firefox Showcase Add-on - part two
I did in fact install the Firefox Showcase add-on as reported in the preceding blog post, and have any managed to remember that I intended to write something about it after having it installed, that being, I suppose, the time when one should generally write about software, after having it installed, although there are plenty of stories and articles and such written about things that not only haven't been installed and tested but which aren't yet available, or in many cases don't even exist.
Showcase does have the function that I want, to search for text in existing open tabs, so that you don't have to remember and hunt for something that you are think you have open already, or do as I tend to do and give up on finding the alread open tab and open a new tab and search for the desired content with Google.
Showcase also has a whole bunch of fancy features that I don't particulary want or need. Showcase will give you thumbnails of open tabs. I tend to have a lot tabs open, say, 20 to 80 tabs open in a window. The thumbnail default size is such that I can't read the text. There are means for setting and adjusting the thumbnail size, but I don't really want to have to learn a bunch of new controls and so on for adjusting the size of things that I will spend as little time on as tab thumbnails. Bad enough that I have to adjust the values of page zoom and text zoom so frequently when viewing the regular web pages. I don't want to read thumbnails anyway; I just want to find tabs by searching for text.
If I keep this extension, which I probably won't, I'd tend to want to use it in the Open in New Tab mode, but there's a problem with that; when you close that tab, you don't go back to the tab you were on when you invoked Showcase. That may be because I'm using both Tab Kit and Last Tab. Firefox extensions don't all work together well. Specifically, Showcase wants to do things to the tab controls at the left and right of the tab bar, but Last Tab also wants to modify that area's behavior, and since I've tried Tab Kit, I've been using 4 rows of tabs and not having the normal left and right tab selecting controls, so these three add-ons don't blend together in a harmonious way.
Well, I've lost the desire to write more about the Firefox Showcase extension; I will leave it installed for a while and perhaps write more about it after using it a bit longer, although the probability of remembering that I intended to do that is rather small. If you want a flashy way to look at tabs, and perhaps want to be able to search for text in open tabs, you might want to give it a try; if so you can find it at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1810 .
Showcase does have the function that I want, to search for text in existing open tabs, so that you don't have to remember and hunt for something that you are think you have open already, or do as I tend to do and give up on finding the alread open tab and open a new tab and search for the desired content with Google.
Showcase also has a whole bunch of fancy features that I don't particulary want or need. Showcase will give you thumbnails of open tabs. I tend to have a lot tabs open, say, 20 to 80 tabs open in a window. The thumbnail default size is such that I can't read the text. There are means for setting and adjusting the thumbnail size, but I don't really want to have to learn a bunch of new controls and so on for adjusting the size of things that I will spend as little time on as tab thumbnails. Bad enough that I have to adjust the values of page zoom and text zoom so frequently when viewing the regular web pages. I don't want to read thumbnails anyway; I just want to find tabs by searching for text.
If I keep this extension, which I probably won't, I'd tend to want to use it in the Open in New Tab mode, but there's a problem with that; when you close that tab, you don't go back to the tab you were on when you invoked Showcase. That may be because I'm using both Tab Kit and Last Tab. Firefox extensions don't all work together well. Specifically, Showcase wants to do things to the tab controls at the left and right of the tab bar, but Last Tab also wants to modify that area's behavior, and since I've tried Tab Kit, I've been using 4 rows of tabs and not having the normal left and right tab selecting controls, so these three add-ons don't blend together in a harmonious way.
Well, I've lost the desire to write more about the Firefox Showcase extension; I will leave it installed for a while and perhaps write more about it after using it a bit longer, although the probability of remembering that I intended to do that is rather small. If you want a flashy way to look at tabs, and perhaps want to be able to search for text in open tabs, you might want to give it a try; if so you can find it at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1810 .
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