Category: Administrivia

  • Okay, figured out how to switch the text and background

    StarOffice commands your desktop — not sure that I like that, though you do still have control of everything, and can still reach everything. What the hell — I’ll get used to it, and it isn’t Microsoft. Now, having installed and played around with software, however, I need to get my ass in gear and…

  • The Next Cool Thing

    I’m working with StarOffice 5.2 today — it takes Word documents and uses them seamlessly. I’m in the process of trying to figure out how the hell to change the text to white and the background to dark blue, though, because a paper-white background on a monitor kills my eyes, due to the many hours…

  • I’m really looking forward to getting back to writing.

    Today I have had the endless fun of reloading software, remembering passwords, and getting things to work. Yippee. This is not the way I like to spend my work time; unfortunately, in order to use the computer, first you gotta make it run. Giant, lumpy, hairy pain in the ass. It is, however, more fun…

  • I am TRIUMPHANT

    My goddamned work-computer internet connection/modem works now. Only had to reformat the hard drive twice to get it to work again, too (and this after every other possible option had been exhausted, and me with it.) But I can blog while I write again, and I can research, and — ah, for joy, for frabjous…

  • Not much happiness tonight

    Computer reformatted, things still not working. Back to the grind. The damned thing IS going to work.

  • It’s a conspiracy

    I e-mailed the Blogback guy to see what I had to do to get my comments back. I had no more than pressed the SEND button on my e-mail client than comments came back. The Internet WANTS me to look like an idiot. (And I was doing such a good job on my own …)

  • Amazing …

    All the blog-comments providers seem to have gone more-or-less simultaneously tits up. Which means either no comments on the blog, or something complicated that I’d host myself. And I’m not sure SFF-net will work with something like that. More info as I find it.

  • Seduction

    I fell into the seductive lure of finishing off the last of the Community site pages — I was close, the old template was driving me nuts every time I ran into it, and . . . hell, I was procrastinating, too. Let’s be real. And now the site is “done” (laughing maniacally, because sites…

  • Struggling with the template

    Isn’t cutting into my writing time, but I am trying to figure out how to redo the weblog. Have most but not all of the template working. And a missing comments system.

  • BlogBuddy

    Oh, and lest I forget, BlogBuddy, the neat little “post straight from the desktop” add-in that lets me skip going to the Blogger homepage ever. Fast, convenient, and very easy to install. It’s definitely time to kill somebody. Writing should be much more fun than HTML.