Blogger and THE LORD - a quiz
I am a stubborn and lazy person! I have wasted more time being mad at changing to Word Press. My head tells me to be grateful, excited to learn and glad for the upgrade; instead I wallow in self-pity. I miss simply jumping on my blog and posting in 3 minutes flat. Now, I have to read the manual before doing that. Not being able to quickly use my online journal is depressing me. Still, I am making progress. I know that one day, I will look back on this transition as good and my attitude as pathetic. Why am I making these posts public? Well, I need the posting practice and these are my thoughts today.
One simple question? Why can’t I post a photo? I’ve got the little photo icon on the bar above, but when I click it asks me for the image URL. Blogger integrates the uploading of the photo right there in one easy step. When I try to use the upload feature below, it says: Unable to create directory /home/.february/tkiihn/katiesbeer/wp-content/uploads/2006/03. Is its parent directory writable by the server? This has been the outcome of each and every learning step with Word Press. I then go the manual to read how to do it and end up more confused than ever. The Word Press Codex manual is the worst written manual for a beginner EVER. So, then I end up sending Glen yet another email asking how to do something. He fixes it for me, but then I feel like I didn’t learn anything. This whole wonderful, painful process is giving me several gifts; a rather ugly picture of my nature, undeserved gifts of a stranger (my very best blogging buddy Glen) and an opportunity to depend on others. I’m failing at all three.
I have a good tie in to this post and THE LORD. Can anyone guess what it is? If you are liturgical in practice, you probably heard a sermon on it yesterday. Clue: how is the crash of my old blog like a snake bite?
WP 2.0 had some initial bugs with the posting of pictures. I use a client, w.bloggar, that gives me spellchecking, relatively painless uploading, and offline post writing.
What is a client? See that’s where I am. WordPress uses all these foreign terms. Do I need to take a class on computer tech terminology or something?
LOL no.
A “client” is a program which usually sits on one computer (in this case my laptop) and send data to a “server” which usually sits on another computer.
There will never be a single magic-bullet book or class that will teach you everything you need to know.