moving … Sunday, 12 February 2006
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again … i know … i know … but, i can’t help it …
it’s kinda boring here … i dunno … i like some of the features here, but … blah … you know? so … time for a change …
so … its off to livejournal … its kind kewl there … and of course … i am now a ‘die-hard’ deviant … and i have a fully-functional journal there … so, eventually i won’t really need this place or any of the blogger blogs … i will just have the livejournal and deviantART spaces …
come visit me … see ya around …
oh, yeah … the new handle is ‘madmalvablue’ … just for something different …
what can i say …? Thursday, 9 February 2006
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… not much to say …
not much in the mood for writing, of late …
find me here … feeling kinda artistic of late …
i’ll be back in a few days …
tootles for now …
pyschotic rage Wednesday, 8 February 2006
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that pretty much describes the world …
p-tosh with reality … it really does bore me …
i have not been deligent with my blogging duties because if my newest addiction: deviantART … posted part 3 of mona lisa man on my story blog over the wken … and a few new poems on the poetry blog … oh, the photo blog gets updated daily (except i think i missed yesterday …) well … that’s it … 4 now
faeries and other things Friday, 3 February 2006
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faeries keeping me busy of late … 
… currently working on part 3 of mona lisa man, and a couple poems … i’m also having far too much fun playing with my new tripod … 
re: templates: for those of you readers who are blogger users …
there are lots of places you can get templates – if you do a search in google, you’ll find them …
just keep in mind that in many cases you have no way of knowing if copyright law is being violated by use of images used to make the templates … if that matters to you, that is … if not, well … 
…
if you visit templates by caz, you will find lots of templates containing images that have not been ‘ripped’ …
once you find the template you like and download it … then what?
then, you open the template’s *.txt file (you can do this in your browser – open a new window and then go to ‘open file’ in the ‘file’ menu), and cut and paste …
you erase all the template code in your blogger template window (be sure to save your links and other side-bar text) and then replace it with the new text from the new template you just downloaded …
then all that’s left for you to do is customize – put your links back in, etc … and … voila … a fancy new template … …
hope this helps … it really is that easy …!
multiple blog personality … Wednesday, 1 February 2006
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okay … i admit it … i’m an addict … a blog addict. in addition to maintaining this blog on a mostly daily basis, i have gone back to blogger, where i have 5 (yes 5! ) blogs. it all really started when i just started looking at all the blog templates there are out there in www-land. of course, i had to like several that i saw … . and of course, that meant creating blogs so i could use the template … so, here’s a list of my blogger blogs, along with a brief description:
- my photo blog – a different photo each day, some mine, some stock or creative commons photos
- my stories – my very own fiction
- my poetry – my poems, in one blog
- wurdz i collect – phrases, quotes, clever quips, the wurdz of others
- my diary – self explanatory
a word about the template changes … just wanted to tell you why i had to change those awesome templates – the forest girl and then the fairy. after setting up the blogs, i did a little research on the artist: enayla (real name: linda bergkvist) … i did find her website, and there she had a very detailed explanation of her ‘rulz of use’ for her art …
judging from her ‘rulz’ the templates i had downloaded from blogskins were created by pirating enayla’s work … i am big on intellectual property rights, etc. and so, i could not, in good conscience, use those blog templates, despite their beauty. so, now i have new templates, (templates that are not created by artwork ripped off from their artists!) and now you all know why …
to all drivers … Sunday, 29 January 2006
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. . . who insist on driving their vehicles everywhere, despite the fact they have no driving skills whatsoever . . .
here are a few things u should know:
1. at an intersection, the stopping point is not only before the intersection, but also BEFORE the pedestrian crosswalk, not in the middle of or after the crosswalk – us pedestrians r not 2 keen on walking behind your car and sucking in all those nice exhaust fumes!!!
2. vehicles are equipped with signal lights because we are ALL supposed to be using them to signal lane changes and turns – ALL the time, not just when the fancy strikes us!!
3. the passing lane is just that, a lane for passing . . . it is not a lane u plant yourself in if you are driving all the way to timbucktou – for heavens sake, keep your sorry piece of motorized metal to the right, so others can pass if they want 2!!
4. if u can’t follow these guidelines, then for heaven’s sake take the bus or support your local cabbie . . .STAY OFF THE ROAD!!!
another kewl blog thingy … Saturday, 28 January 2006
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it said about me …
“You are elegant, withdrawn, and brilliant.
Your mind is a weapon, able to solve any puzzle.
You are also great at poking holes in arguments and common beliefs.
For you, comfort and calm are very important.
You tend to thrive on your own and shrug off most affection.
You prefer to protect your emotions and stay strong.”
… that’s pretty accurate …
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10 of my favourite blogging resources … Saturday, 28 January 2006
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- technorati – a great indexing website technorati
- flickr – for on-line photo storage and sharing flickr
- deviantArt – an on-line community of artists … some greast stock photos deviantArt
- blogskins and templates for blogger, moveable type, xanga are here … and they’re free! blogskins
- templates for blogger templates by Caz
- a must-have button for your bookmark bar that allows you to creative technorati tags with just the click of a button – no more annoying code! oddiophile’s technorati tagging bookmarklet
- creative commons – a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works creative commons
- free wordpress blog – very powerful interface, but not much flexibility in customizing your template wordpress
- free blogger blog – missing some features that wordpress has, but the best for customization of templates … blogger
- a free, photo hosting website photobucket
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the ring Thursday, 26 January 2006
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do you have someone ’standing in your corner’ … someone that encourages you … who wants you … with all his heart … to get up from those despairing and discouraging falls in life? i do … and having this person in my corner … it makes this journey of life sweeter to savour …
You thank me all the time
but now it’s my turn
cause truly a word of gratitude so due
can’t go unheard
and it made me feel better
to have you there in my corner
my eyes cast so low
my face could not have been
drawn longer
I know you’ve been impressed
you’ve seen me at my best
but oh, how it hurts
when I can’t hide my worst
well thank-you for carrying on
for playing with me and this song
it made me feel better
we sat it out like some passing bad weather
My mind was like kid’s boxing gloves
the kind blown up with air
that are put away after play
and get limp just lying there
but you knew they’d fill up again
and you gave me your shoulder
and I got up in the ring
because I had you there
in my corner
and I got up in the ring
because I had you there In my corner
lyrics written by sarah harmer
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clap your hands say yeah … Thursday, 19 January 2006
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when i walked into hmv this afternoon, this song played on the overhead speakers … i really walked into the store kind of restless … undecided … wanting … a different taste … i even had confessions on a dance floor in my hands … and then … i put it back on the shelf … what a cool ripple in my time-space to come across such neat, fun, funky music …
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spiral staircase Saturday, 14 January 2006
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