Category Archives: BLOGGING

If you can read this, then I have successfully learned to set up a website with WordPress, Lunarpages, FTP, Firezilla, TextEdit, and a lotta luck.

The artist in me wanted to believe it; the hard-headed woman laughed and called it tripe: A new comment from “Bill” was received on the post “BLOGGING: ” of the weblog “Spinning”. Comment:A fantastic site, and brilliant effort. A great … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Sometime last month there was a brief discussion about weblog commenting that started with a post at Steve Ersinghaus’ place and I dragged here (under his suggestion that we post on our own sites rather than leave a comment). Though … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Barbara Klaser, of the weblog Mystery of a Shrinking Violet, has graciously named me as one of five fellow writers actively promoting writing in the internet environment.  The Shameless Lion Award is the child of Seamus Kearney of Shameless Words, … Continue reading →

Well if you didn’t stop by when it was up, you missed it.  It did give me incentive to make up a new one in a helluva hurry.  This one took about ten minutes but I like it.  I just … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I don’t care if you’re using a reader; you just have to visit in person to see this.  It may not be up for very long when I realize what I’ve done. Continue reading →

NOT from Google: "The loss of a loved one can be a troubling thing. The grief, inconvenience, and loneliness brought on by the sudden separation from a spouse, colleague, or even a casual acquaintance often causes a profoundly negative effect … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I was going to integrate this into the prior post on Commentary (in response to Steve Ersinghaus’ post on Comments and Additive Expression) but tried to instead focus on the particular points that Steve raised. Sometimes though, some reasons and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Time for a new logo design.  The new pc makes this one look particularly yucky-colored.  The other thing is the widescreen leaves a lotta space either side of that carefully planned-out 800 pixel view.  Does anybody need the 800 anymore?  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This really is not a post directed to my regular readers here at Spinning, but rather in pursuing further some points brought up at this site regarding the post and the comment purposes of a weblog.  Steve says: I’m not … Continue reading → Continue reading →

An obvious slowdown here in posting (at least at Spinning, but not at Hypercompendia), but there’s been a slowdown in reading and other aspects of my life as well.  Because I’m writing story again and using new software (Storyspace) to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Didn’t realize until now that yesterday marked four years of blogging on Spinning.  Though I’m showing 4,260 posts, I know that there are about another 300 that were farmed out or original to other transient weblogs that I’ve had briefly … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Not for me, but for Mark at Clear Lake Reflections who is having a bit of trouble with the switch to the latest Movable Type format.  Please do help if you can.  Thanks! Continue reading →

Two young ladies I’ve been meaning to point out and add into my blogroll here.  Carolyn–who started out at Green Flamingoes but has settled into For Chameleons just as she’s left the Tunxis campus and returned to Vassar. Neha–who has … Continue reading → Continue reading →

"Fuck" has been added to your list of banned words. What is it with these idiots, as if yeah, sure, everybody’s going to hit that hot website to f_ck those hot cute chicks, or enlarge their p_nis to do it. … Continue reading → Continue reading →