I can’t believe it. Tomorrow my site goes live! I’m just a little bit behind schedule, so it won’t work until a little later in the day, and a couple of things aren’t quite complete, but the important stuff is. Of course, no tutors will actually be tutoring tomorrow because no students have been able to sign up yet, and being Labor Day, the likelihood is slim that any one will for a few days yet. But still! It’s here!!!
The Tutor Connection
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So, I got my laptop back from the shop last weekend, but it still wasn’t quite fixed. Before taking it in, I did a complete restore, which didn’t help, and made it act even crazier. Well, it was still acting crazy, meaning something went wrong with the restore. So I had to restore it AGAIN. The thing is, I use honking big programs which take forever to install, and lots of programs of varying size. Lots. So. I’ve lost hours and hours of work time just getting my computer back into shape. And, of course, nothing is ever simple with me and computers. There is always SOMETHING that doesn’t go right. Like my Palm wouldn’t synch. And the backup file of contacts that I exported from my Palm desktop program to synch to my Palm after the restore turned out to be only one contact. $#*$*&*# aaaaarrrrrrrgg ggghhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!! I’d spent over an hour or more combining all of my addresses into one neat file. So tonight, I did it all over again.
I finally got my Palm to synch, but forgot that I need to install a program on my computer that makes it synch Microsoft Money to it also. That’s what I use as my checkbook register. I don’t remember where that program is. I know it’s on a backup disk, I just don’t know which one. I’m not that great at organizing my disks other than writing the date of each backup on the CD. I have to go through all the ones I think it might be on to find it. One day, I’m going to do a big reorganization of all of my important files. When I have nothing else to do. Which means probably never.
My husband teases me and says I give out some kind of aura or energy that messes with all the computers I’ve had. Sometimes I think it’s true because he never seems to have the problems that I do, and often, the problems I do have are completely new to him. He’s never seen them happen before. I suppose there’s a silver lining to that. He learns something new in case he ever comes across it again. 
But, at last, I’m up and running again. And this time I didn’t put everything on it that I usually do. I decided I’d add things as I actually use them.
Keep on dreaming,
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I figured out a way around the picture problem. Of course, I can’t use the picture uploader that comes w/Wordpress, but oh, well. Everything else seems to working fine, and though they’ve gone backwards in some respects, it’s still a decent blogging program. People are complaining, so I imagine they’ll iron things out in the next build.
Yeah, so the map looks good now, and not like how I described it in my last post.
Anyway, I have exhausted myself in updating everything that I can update on my blog. The only thing I haven’t done is create the template that I really want, but that’s for another time and place. This one’s working fine, and I like the clean look of it.
So, you’ll notice some new plugins over there to the side, and a bit of rearranging. After an exhaustive search on what’s available these days, I made my choices. And I even created a nifty little player so I can listen to my favorite songs. And you can, too! I can’t promise you’ll like them, though. Check out myfabrik.com. Really cool! You can use it for any kind of media that you want to show off (pics, movies, music, etc.), and they host the files. I had to tweak the code, though, so the player would fit in my sidebar. I thought it might produce horrendous results, but it came out quite nice.
Keep on dreaming,
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After ignoring the last 2 or 3 Wordpress updates, I finally decided to update my blogging app. And I hate it. Used to be I could easily insert pics by uploading and adding in a field below my post editor. And they’d come out exactly as I created them. But now, I have to click a link and wait for some whoopdeedo image doodad to open and when I upload my pic IT CRUNCHES IT! I don’t want my pic crunched. It comes out not nice. It comes out with missing parts. See that map I uploaded? The words were easily readable in the pic I created, but once it got crunched, there are pieces of letters missing. How crappy is that? I’m afraid to see what happens when I upload real pictures.
Why do they go and mess with perfectly good tools that way?
PLUS, they moved the category list to below the post, so now I can’t just click off my categories at the side of my post, I have to SCROLL DOWN to click them off. Now how dumb is that?
Keep on dreaming,
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