NOTICE: All my Posting is Moving...

Hello all, besides posts to this site of videos done automatically by blip.tv, no more posts are going into this blog. That means, that unless something changes, this is my last manual post to this blog: http://orvillechomer.blogspot.com/

I'm consolidating everything onto my main site of Chomer.com. So, to view my active blog, go to: http://blog.chomer.com/

So stop on by, read, and post your comments!

Thanks!
Orville

Annoying Things on Blogger Blogs

There are times I am bored and I click the ol' "Next Blog" button at the top of blogger pages to see what I can see. Here are some things that annoy me that come up. I'm sure you too... but I want to vent:

1. The "Next Blog" button and "Flag Blog" button are missing. So, if the site is indecent you can't flag it. Also, if you want to move on to another "Next Blog" you have to hit your browser's back button and click the "Next Blog" button on the previous blog.



2. Spam Blogs. They're popping up all the time and they are truly annoying! Many times they are guilty of annoying thing #1!



3. No Blogger Directory that I know of. If the writer of the blog has left it open to the world, I wish there was a directory to browse by subject, etc. The site GlobeOfBlogs is lame in my opinion and not automated.



4. I wish the directory could have a place for users to rank blogs, and post comments about the blogs.



5. I annoy myself: How many different blogs do I have that I've bearly updated that are wasting space on servers out there. Most blogs are like that I've heard. I can live with this I think.

Using Blogger editing - Some Problems

First of all I've noticed that uploading pictures in IE7 does not work.
Next, if you insert pictures into a blog post, they end up inserted at the top of the blog, NOT where the insertion point is!

Suggested placing of pictures in a blog post:

• Use IE6 or Firefox for the post.
• Begin your post with some spaces, then move your insertion point somewhere in the middle (this makes editing easier later).
• Before writing one word of your blog you should insert your pictures first, starting with the last picture to appear first.
• Do one picture at a time to keep from getting confused.
• Then add the text to your post.
• To do some "fixing up" you may want to click on the Edit Html tab and edit there (assuming you are HTML literate).

Adding Comments and Viewing Profile

I am suprised that when a visitor of the blog goes to add a comment or look at my profile, the page is not formatted the same as the rest of the blog. Wordpress looks better in this way. Also, I get a message about content mixed between protected and unprotected. This could be fixed easily so that the annoying messages would not come up.

My gripe mainly is it wrecks the continuity of the blog. It doesn't "flow."

I had another thought.... oops! lost it!

Friday at 6

It is 6:09pm Friday evening and I am still at work. Two meetings, no working phone on my desk. Hmmm. I've not gotten alot done at work today. Did some coding (mainly javascript) for the project I'm working on. Tried getting on one conference bridge today with my cell phone. The conference bridge would have none of it!

I'm trying to push myself to code a bit more. I'm toggling back and forth from this Blogger edit window to my text editor where I have my javascript.

Bah! Well, I just got a little more code put in.

Alright, I better finish this post, and call my wife from my cell phone so she doesn't worry.