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I figured it out!

June 5, 2007 By 10 Comments

I have been having Flickr angst. I have been trying to figure out for DAYS how to add “Notes” to my photos. I’ve googled, I have looked in the forum, I have posted in the forum and finally, I found the original software that Flickr used as their inspiration (Fotonotes, if you are wondering).

I should have, um, LOOKED AT THE BUTTONS AT THE TOP OF THE PHOTO I WANTED TO ADD NOTES TO.

Duh.

It’s sorta like the time I went screaming around my house in a frenzy yelling “Where are my GLASSES?!” and my son said, “Mom, you’re wearing them!”.

Oops. My bad.

Suckasuckastupidity aside, though, I FIGURED IT OUT! Without bugging people n’ stuff!! YAY!!! I was so thankful to the offers of help (Especially from the designer of the page), but I am trying to reserve those emails, phone calls, crying and gnashing of teeth sessions for when I have BBP (Big Blog Problems).

You know this conversation is somewhere in my future:

“Hi! Jessica?! Yah, it’s Loralee. Umm…I just was trying to figure out how to create a sideblog archive and I just got a call from the CIA. Apparently, when I tried to insert my code I turned off the power at Dick Chaney’s house and Homeland Security is getting a little huffy. Do you have a sec?? SUPER! Thanks Buckets!!!!”

See? Why bother on small things like Flickr when the fate of Dick Chaney’s voltage is at stake?????

OH!!! AND!!!! YAY!!!!

I figured out how to put a link in a photo. I know, I know. One small step for the rest of the blogging world, one freaking HUGE FEAT for Loralee!!!!

desk.jpg

Click to embiggen. (I got a WEE BIT excited about the Notes function. Ehem. Sorry.)

Filed Under: Bits of Information, Photos, Stupidity, YAY 10 Comments

Beating my head against a wall

May 31, 2007 By 11 Comments

TechnoDork Girl Strikes Again. (I seriously need to be my own cartoon/action figure.)

I’ve been sitting here, spending time I really don’t have trying to figure out how to add things to my blog correctly and realizing yet again how much I suck at things like this. I swear, I shouldn’t even be allowed to own a computer. I don’t know what I’m doing, most of the things I think I “Figured out” end up sending my blog into suck-disfunctionville and I seem to just make everything HARDER.

I’ve been trying to understand WordPress plugin’s. Problem? You have to understand what the hell FTP is and I DON’T. So, now I have to try and unravel that. Easy peasy for many, wretched and worrisome for me. I usually have to read tutorials on HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE TUTORIAL!!!!!!

AND…

I really didn’t mean to write a bitchy post today. I wanted to post a photo of my desk with those cool popup comments embedded in the photo but CAN I FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THIS???!!! Uh, that would be a big, fat, NO!!!!!

If anyone on the planet can tell me how to get THIS (Or anything like this) to work in Flickr please tell me in simple-to-understand lingo (You know, like how you would speak to a preschooler or Kendra from “The Girl’s Next Door”) and save my poor mind.

(Please forgive the wailing, whiny post. I just get really frustrated when I work and work to understand or achieve something and just can’t do it or make my brain have the light bulb switch on. It pisses me off and I needed to vent. Grrr.)

Filed Under: Birthday, Frustration, Photos, Stupidity, Suck 11 Comments

Oh, for the love of PETE!!!!

May 1, 2007 By 15 Comments

Yes, yes. I know. Two posts in one day.

This is important, though.

See that comment over there in my sideblog? You know, right over there on your left. Yah, that’s it. Uh, huh…yes, the one about me taking four hours of my life to delete the posts from my blogspot blog? Yup. Well, apparently, IT FUBARS THE POSTS OVER HERE.

Namely, my photos. They are all gone from the posts I deleted.

PPFT! Just like that.

I don’t think there are enough forks in my silverware drawer to stick through my eye right now. I can’t even find contact info to ask Blogger about it.

Did I also mention that my beloved, sweet baby (ie MY CAMERA) is missing?

I am going to be under my table sobbing with my thumb in my mouth if anyone needs me.

Filed Under: Bitching, Blogger, Every Day, Photos, Stupidity, Suck 15 Comments