Apparently, I'm Britney. A year or two ago this would have been trashy, yet flattering.
Now it's just sad.
Frankly, I much prefer how Pen Dragon pictured me:
Yes indeedy, that's more like it.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Category Archives: Blogging
Swedish Chef, Bitch
Heartlessly stolen from the Waiterblog, because I tried, but I cannot go 24 hours without posting…particularly when I see I'll get fewer than 200 hits for this day.
Gah!
professor raincoaster’s little lectures: WordPress 105, Pages vs Posts
Today, class, we are going to discuss Pages versus Posts.
This is a Post. A blog post. Pretty much all of WordPress is blog posts, as WordPress is blogging software and a blog host. Your posts go in chronological order from oldest (at the bottom of the page) to freshest, and if you're using a template there's fuckall you can do about the way they're displayed.
But.
There are other things, called Pages. These aren't streamed the way blog posts are; they just sit there in cyberspace all by themselves, totally separate from the blog posts, although joined by a link in the sidebar. If you go to the sidebar, you'll see you have a link for Pages, and right now this thing just has some boilerplate text from WordPress in it. Click on it and check it out. It says:
About
This is an example of a WordPress page, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. You can create as many pages like this one or sub-pages as you like and manage all of your content inside of WordPress.
which is, indeed, true. Pages are like separate pages on a website, as opposed to blog posts that are all strung together. You can, if you want to get advanced, nest Pages inside Pages, but that's a lesson for another time. We're blogging here, not building websites. Different.
You should use a Page rather than a Post for anything permanently relevant, anything you want people to be able to access from anyplace in your blog. Examples would be an "About Me" or bio page, "My goals and aspirations" for an inspirational journal, "Books that guide my life" or, as I have, "Terrorist Alert Levels." Whatever goes in a Page should be something that isn't time-dependent, as it'll be displayed with equal importance as long as your blog exists.
You write a Page just the way you write a Post. When you click New Post or Write you get to a writing page; at the top you'll see two tabs, Write Post and Write Page. Write Post is the default, but if you click Write Page you will write a page and it will get listed under Pages on your sidebar. All the functions for writing Pages are exactly the same as for writing Posts, so you've got everything you need to just go for it.
If you find you've totally fucked up, you can always go back to Edit and click Delete Page, which you have to scroll down to see, but it is there. Right now, I suggest you go to the boilerplate (prefab) Page, click Edit, and replace that text with something of your own. And while you're at it, do the same with the first, boilerplate Post that WordPress stuck in your blog, unless you've already edited it to something useful. Think of it like hanging pictures in a new apartment; it won't really look like your place until you're done.
Linkie o’ the Day: Shaw ’nuff sucks
Actually, unlike the party responsible for this website,
I ain't nevah had a problem with my Shaw connection, except that one time I had been…celebrating…and didn't notice I'd kicked the modem behind my printer, slightly loosening the connections in the process. Nonetheless, this person does seem somewhat less than thrilled with the level of service he's received. Let's go to the web copy:
Shaw Wankspace
Hey. Got Milk? Better yet, Got Shaw?If you're reading this page then you probably know that when Shaw goes down, it goes down like a two bit whore.
Pointed. Yes, one would have to say pointed. This guy should never, ever try VCN. Not only does it go down at least twice a week, but it stays down for hours and when it comes back up all you get are sanctimonious whines from the staff about how they're all volunteer. Now, I'm a volunteer. I'm all for volunteerism. But let's set some kind of floor of competence, shall we? For lo, cluelessness is not endearing, particularly when my article misses the deadline because you're such a giggling incomp.
Gee, people used to get all het up over religion. Now we have ISPs instead. Nietzche was right.
viva la Chi’en revolucion
Fired CBS anchorman Arthur Chi'en has won his wrongful dismissal case against his ex-employers.
The revolutionary icon was kicked to the curb, as you may recall, for losing it under pressure, live on-air, and inquiring of a pestering gadfly:
What the fuck is your problem?
The Chi'en Cause was, naturally, taken up by bloggers and student journalists everywhere, particularly after it became known that the pestering gadfly in question was actually employed by another media organization specifuckally to perform such interventions.
From the Revolutionary Headquarters:
Arthur Chi'en, The Right Man At The Right Time!
Today's battle is only the beginning of a long and illustrious life of leadership in the war against placard-bearing satellite-radio drones and shell-shocked corporate news officers! Show your support of his righteous reaction in your office cubicle and/or local shopping center! He will report again!
And today's report, from the mainstream media:
F-word shouldn't have spelled 'fired'
An arbitrator has ruled TV reporter Arthur Chi'en was wrongly fired by WCBS Channel 2 for blurting out the F-word on live television last year.
The station should have handed Chi'en a lesser penalty for lashing out at hecklers in a live shot when he thought the cameras weren't rolling last May.
