I am just trying to create a new blog, using Mac. It is very much in its infancy (it fact I would say that it is foetal at the moment) but I shall publish the link here to see if it takes you to where it should...
THIS LINK HAS BEEN REMOVED AS THE SITE HAS BEEN CLOSED DOWN
As I cannot link this (not on a Mac anway) I shall try putting it on 'My blog friends' so that clicking 'My new blog' should take you there directly.
PS This link doesn't work and neither does it work on MY NEW BLOG, so forget it! I have a Mac problem here soemwhere.
11.50 Colin had to copy and paste to get to my new site - I have been fighting for the last hour trying to get this link sorted out. EVENTUALLY I have just realised that the URL I posted under MY NEW BLOG was wrong and instead of typing in web.mac etc. I had typed www.mac
All this messing around - anyway you can now go to the blog links and it should send you to the new site. OUF!! So now that is sorted I shall start work on the new blog.
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It's now 13.20 and I have been messing around on the Mac blog all morning, and as time progresses it seems more and more like rocket science; I have even been onto the Apple geeks forums trying to find answers and have just got myself even more confused.
Geeks are to be avoided, Louise. They speak a different language and if you ask them to translate, it just gets worse. What you need is a computer-savvy friend who can pop in from time to time, do whatever's necessary and spare you any explanation.
My problem is that I think I might be a rather geeky computer person, too! I know a guy here who is a Mac expert (his cyber-café is only equipped with Mac) and I'm sure he would set up everything for me in a flash - but I wouldn't know how he did it and so when it was time for a change, I'd be lost.
And as I like changing things around all the time, this would be too awful! I'm one of these people that change all their furniture around every few months (apart from the bookcases as they are too heavy and too full to empty) - there is probably a name for strange people like myself and I should be probably be under lock and key, but no-one has discovered me yet!
My wife suffers from the same malady, Heidi...sorry, Louise. More than once I've come home late, haven't bothered to turn a light on and gone headlong over furniture that wasn't where it had been. I think sometimes she does it deliberately....
Anyway, I think you're wise to come back to your original blog. It's the first time I've seen a Mac blog up and running and, as part of their iWeb program rather than a single entity, it seems to be aimed at people dabbling their toes in very basic, entry-level blogging. It's not a dedicated blogging program like this one and so is missing the checks, balances and safeguards.
It's the same with the website program, which so far has proved quite adequate for my needs but really is more for someone wanting to post vacation pix for their family and friends. If I ever need something more sophisticated, I suspect iWeb won't fit the bill.
I love Mac's simplicity but once in a while it's a little too simple.
I'm so glad that there are other people in the world that move house without moving (although I do a lot of that too!). As I type, I am in fact casting my eye round the room as it's about time it had a major move, and it gets a spring clean at the same time.
I agree that in fact the Mac blog is probably more a 'family' blog site - there are no safety nets, apart from either restricting the site to named people or erasing a comment. The types of examples they suggest are 'My Holiday', 'My Travel Diary', 'New Baby' etc.
Shame - good idea...
Be careful, my mother in law is in bed right now, with a cracked vertabrae because she moved her furniture around.
My wife and her mother have move around days. Usually it finishes up back where it started.
Yeah, we usually wind up back where we started, too. Most of the satisfaction, I'm told, is in moving stuff to "see if it works," not necessarily keeping it there. The point escapes me.
The point escapes me too. I never move anything which is why I can never find anything. It's getting a bit hard to find the furniture these days.
Time for a spring clean, perhaps...
I closed down the Mac blog this morning - of course some clever soul posted using my name! And I have a good idea who it was!
From what others have said, there are now four of us - Colin Randall, Sarah, Louise and myself, who have the wherewithal to know who is visiting our blog. But two of us -Sarah and myself- have it set up so that anyone, in fact, can see who is visiting our blogs.
If everyone used our settings, then the mischief-making anonymice and other assorted undesirables would quickly become a thing of the past.
I'll be putting something up later today onto my own (semi-dormant) blog on state-of-the-art rodent control.
Louise, the Promo'Arts blog is on Wordpress, as you have probably noticed, so I have experience of both.
I like the way you can add pages in Wordpress, and the way you can decide whether you want people to open links in the same window or a new one.
The html restrictions are a bit annoying, however. Sitemeter doesn't work to full capacity because you can't see where folks have linked from, or where they exit.
So, for my personal blog, I'm going to stay with Blogger, but the PA blog works better in Wordpress.
Don't get me wrong here, Colin - I set up NeoEarth as just a bit of fun, and in no way to 'track' anyone. I stopped the Mac blog because there is no security on it, as proved by the person who left a comment using my name. I have a very good idea of that person's identity, not through 'tracking' but by the way he writes! And it was nothing nasty! Also, as far as I remember, he posted last night fairly late on my blog and if you are not online when the person does so, you have no idea where they are posting from.
Okay, it leaves a list of towns that have visited your site, but even this is rubbish as there are postings from 'France' and from 'Europe' and it is the address of their ISP which doesn't mean necessarily it's 500m down the road!
I have no wish to become a Sherlock Holmes of the Web! Just good clean fun, eh!
I'm relieved to hear you say there was nothing nasty in the last one, Louise.
But there was that recent anonymouse on Colin R's who was predicting that misfortune would befall a particular individual. That's when Colin R finally decided to block anonymous comments.
And while I agree it should all be in fun, it's no fun for me having Richard of Orléans keep popping up, accusing me of being this or that anonymouse or other pseudonym, especially after things have taken a sinister turn.
It shows there's a nasty streak in his character to be making these serious and unsubstantiated accusations.
It's the main reason why I have felt it necessary to withdraw from personal blogging (except to discuss security issues such as this). I notice that the toxic Anglo-Saxon has even worked in his recent "scrounger" charge on a comment to the Telegraph, on Melissa Whitworth's Evil Empire Thread. He's a one man kangaroo court, and as you know is barred permanently from my own blog for serial unpleasantness.
As you say, Louise, blogging should be fun. Orléans has turned it into a bear pit.
And no, Richard, it was not I who pretended to be Louise on her new blog. So save your breath.
Unlike your good self, Louise, I am indeed in full Sherlock Holmes mode, as you will shortly be seeing, not because I enjoy snooping, but because I object strongly to attempts by R of O and others to provoke, antagonise, stitch-up etc. Some people need to examine their reasons - and conscience- for why they are blogging.
It's interesting that since announcing I was tracking visitors, I have not been bothered further with "Lacombe Lucien". I now know who he is. What is more, he knows that I know, and realizes that further mischief on his part will just prove what a hypocrite he is to have created a pseudonym purely to snipe at others.
With a heavy heart, I shall now (reluctantly) hit the submit key. I do so wish that it were not necessary.
How ironic to hear Colin Berry say that blogging should be fun. Never can there have been someone who takes blogging (and himself) so seriously or who wishes so earnestly to set the agenda for others. And, as evidenced here a couple of weeks ago, simply to disagree with him is to send him into a temper tantrum. We transgressors have a "nasty streak" in our characters or are in breach of the "spirit" of blogging, as defined by Colin Berry.
As Richard has speculated, perhaps the reason certain names weren't seen last week is that Colin Berry was away. His well-established reputation as the man of a thousand voices, the consummate shooter from cover, means that his denials are, at best, doubtful.
Colin Berry's idea of fun lies in the sound of his own voice.
Well, at least Bill Taylor is to be congratulated for posting to this thread under his real name. On the one recent occasion that he, or someone using the same computer, posted to my blog, it was as "Lacombe Lucien", simply to snipe from cover - the very thing that he accuses others of doing. That's hypocrisy of the highest order, Bill Taylor, as you know full well.
During 2007 I have spoken with one voice only, not thousands as you put it with your weasel words. And when I did post under anonymous, or other pseudonyms in 2006, it was intended as fun, not to make the kind of character attacks of which you are so fond. For Bill Taylor to speak of someone liking the sound of his own voice would be comical if it weren't so hypocritical.
You remained silent while Richard of Orléans accused me of being Lacombe Lucien. I invited "Lacombe Lucien" to dissociate himself, but you still remained silent. What does that make you, Bill Taylor ? A particular rodent springs to mind, and it's not a mouse.
I have no idea (nor do I care) what kind of data manipulation Colin Berry may be attempting. It's hardly a secret that he would do anything to blacken my character. It's odd though that when he had his shrieking fit a couple of weeks ago, he dragged up an old posting of mine (written as James Hamilton) in which I attacked none other than.... Lacombe Lucien. The very person Colin Berry now appears to positing as me.
We only have Colin Berry's word that he has used only his own identity this year. Given his past record, and his apparent concept of "fun," I don't think this is quite good enough.
Louise, this must be very boring for you.
Go ahead, lads ... I'll just sit here and watch.
It is the fete of Ste. Louise today so I will be saintly!
Well, I find it boring! What did Ste. Louise have to go through to be canonized? I bet it wasn't ordeal by blog.
No idea!
Noe that Bill Taylor does not deny being "Lacombe Lucien". Which is just as well, because I would not have made that claim without hard evidence to back it up.
I did not claim that he was the same "Lacombe Lucien" who posted to the Telegraph back in 2006. Maybe he was, maybe he wasn't. If he was, then Bill Taylor created him, back then, simply to have an easy target on whom he could vent his contempt. If he wasn't, then he simply liked the name, and decided to resurrect it in these personal blogs, in the hope that the original is not reading them , or would not care anyway.
I will continue to defend myself against Bill Taylor and his self-confessed "wind ups", even if that means being falsely accused of "blackening his character", an absurd charge if ever there was.
I find it incredible that a seasoned journalist should feel the need to resort to this kind of distortion or exaggeration. But on second thoughts ......
Yes, you only have my word for what I say, Bill Taylor. It's called the truth, but I cannot prove that, as you know full well, which gives you plenty of leeway to leave your trail of insinuations. If that's how you get your kicks ......
Data manipulation ? I don't manipulate data, for the same reason I don't cheat at Patience. What would be the point ? I would be cheating myself. But you really should not be provoking me with this kind of insult and character attack. You might just make me publish my internet files showing when you posted to a blog in your "Lacombe Lucien " guise. It's not just that the files would be difficult to forge - they are verifiable with the organization that collects the data.
You and Richard of Orléans between you have attempted to stitch me up, claiming that it was I masquerading as Lacombe Lucien, and doing so at a highly sensitive time when personal threats were being aired under pseudonyms. In fact you yourself were the target for one such threat, and I put our disagreements to one side in order to denounce that particular "anonymouse". And this is the thanks I get - to be demonised by you and the Toxic Anglo-Saxon.
You do a pretty good job, the pair of you, in destroying one's faith in human nature. You've certainly killed my interest in personal blogging. I hope you're satisfied.
I Googled Ste. Louise de Marillac. Did you know she's the patron saint of social workers? She worked with St. Vincent de Paul in the 17th century, caring for the poor and sick. She was canonized in 1934 by Pope Pius XI. No terrible martyrdom involved in her death, fortunately.
Well, that's comforting to know! My daughters' saint had her eyes gouged out - yuk!
I see professor crackpot is back from the UK. What's the problem? They think you are too French and told you to leave?
I thought we in France, were only going to take useful immigrants from now on. Fed up with the professional assistés. How did you crawl back in?
I rest my case.
Time for everyone to take a rest. And change the subject which is, I think we all agree, becoming extremely repetitive.
From the history of Saint Richard:
"Richard étudia ensuite la théologie chez les dominicains à Orléans, fut ordonné prêtre en 1243 et, après avoir fondé une chapelle en l'honneur de saint Edme, revint en Angleterre où il devint curé de Deal et recteur de Charring."
They are always pinching things from France. It's been going on since 1243 at least.
I believe there is, or was, more than one St. William (I suppose one alone couldn't contain all our collective goodness). The saint with her eyes gouged out, Louise; is that the one who's usually depicted carrying them in her hand? Perhaps so she has a little something to see her through the week.....
As ColinB's blog is no longer allowing comment of any kind, I'd just like to post a couple of words on my blog for him.
I don't think, Colin, you can really say that your blog has been used as a soapbox - I would say that my blog over the last couple of months has been used for that.
I see you have gone back to blogging with a vengeance on the Telly and yet, during CR's time there, you were always complaining about the censorship on their blogs. I therefore deduce that you actually like being rapped over the knuckles.
Personally, posting a blog where no-one can reply seems to me to be a waste of time - isn't the point of blogs to receive feed-back on one's thoughts? I would say that a 'no comment' blog is a virtual soapbox - personal ideas, spouted off at the top of your 'voice', unable to accept others are perhaps not of your leaning, and eventually the 'listeners' strolling off to enjoy the rest of the day in the park...
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