SMall Victories :)

I remembered **all** the ways you could turn things around with a Road Morph. I turned the first part around. Then I turned the second part around. Then I turned both parts around. Then I realized I could switch them around and put one in before the other.
Yippee, my Road Morph will be successfully rigged for Presta.
I found my Map Number Five for This Part of Illinois, so I can ride from here to the Illinois Border at the BReak of Dawn.
I sort of almost got VMWare to do what I wanted it to do. (I still can’t get openoffice to cut and paste on the Mac side, or to open at all on the Windows side.)

None of it happened quickly, of course, and I still don’t know where my keys are… but I found my wallet…

And I still get to type floggin’ lettres to be *permitted* to post my own bloggin’ flog…
Oh, and I got the map for tomorrow’s ride done –

another goreoumous day.

Cycling is affecting my dream life. I have a standard “late and can’t find my way there” dream that happens when I do a post-alarm snooze… but this morning’s was, while more angsty than usual, also more amusing afterward. You see, I was driving to get where I needed to be… only I kept getting out of the car and either riding or walking and accidentally forgetting the car, and then being upset because obviously I wasn’t going to get where i was going without it and I had to walk back into traffic…

and when I woke up it wasn’t noon, it was 6:30 lots of time to get to church after all… even to wrestle with Microsoft and Open Office and email first!

Weather Underground, Indeed!

Welp, that does it. I’m switching to wunderground from the weather channel on my bookmarks – I refuse to condone “Curfews are mandatory and subject to arrest if violated.” I suppose microsoft word told the writers that “violators will be subject to arrest” would be the passive voice

Titles

Yes, by wading through the possible pages of settings, I found the “title” option. Thanks, Fritz
It was Monday that I “requested review.”

Byootiful day today.
Need caffeine still

Here’s the explanation, mayor et al…

Every time I post to my blog, I have to do the “spam prevention procedure” of typing letters from a window – *extremely* garbled letters. After a while, I clicked the “why do I have to do this?” underneath and found that this wasn’t something everybody had to do. No, only blogs flagged as “spamblogs.”

Nowhere in the description do they mention that titling posts matters; in fact, nowhere do they suggest how a real person could prevent false flagging. No, they simply describe arrogantly how nasty these spamblogs *are* that they are flagging, somehow being too stupid to realize that the only people reading it would be *humans* wondering, not bots. They mention insipidity and linkfarmitude. I suppose if I used *too* many words like that I could understand …

It’s not as if I *can* put a title on my posts. For this blog, that’s not an option I get. I’ve clicked *lots* of things in the past to try to make it happen; it doesn’t.

I expect that kind of incompetence from, say, AOL or Yahoo. I went with Google ’cause they’re usually better at making things workable.

Frankly, if Google wants me to do that, they should give me a clue.

Google sucks. (If the PTB there had sense, they’d have a flag on that phrase and somebody whose job it was to check it out when it appeared. I doubt it… it will probably mean I get some other inconvenience added to my day.)

Oh. I am grumpy today. I yelled at two people on my commute in and one yelled back. (“There’s a thing called a stop sign!” “I SEE you! Don’t worry about ME!” “I *do* worry about ___ drivers!” )

Things got better when I got to ride at lunch to see a buddy at Carle. The guy at the front desk even had a bicycle behind him The miles eased the hormonal imbalance or something but I think I need a few hundred more.

Off to the home front now to tend to stuff about biking that I’ll blog about next. Of course, it’s all spam.

I would love to know what the algorithm for link farms is, since my site is *still* flagged by the stupid Google – hey people Sioux is NOT recommending you pick this one! – has a veritable PAUCITY, mind you, PAUCITY of links. Nonsensical, irrelevant content? Perhaps, if bicycle is on the algorithm… because one would *think* that if a person hand-entered all those flogging characters *and* put in their stupid request for permission to exist …

… nope…
this is what I get for accepting Big Brother Google. I must submit to its Judgment as it Collects My Information.
…oops, I got it.
Perhaps because my vocabulary is *too* varied, it must be “randomly generated.”
Perhaps it was that string of baiku?
It’s just pretty darned arrogant to have a glaringly flawed spamblog seeker… and then to have on the description of why blogs are flagged only incredibly nasty snide things – not “your perfectly good blog might have been flagged,” but “these nasty spambloggers do this and that and we’re pretty sure you’re one of them, so stop tryig to pretend!!!”
SNork. No. Third possibility. I am not using adsense. *Truth:* fewer links… but profit is not about truth.
(Of course, fourth possibility: my radical content is deemed to left wing… I mean right wing… I mean…)

Reporter doing without her car

Crime Reporter is going a month without driving her car – drop in her blog and say hi!

So… I was searching old emails for reference to a specific light, and I’m not finding it yet – but I did find reference to lights on pedals, and the thought that *that* could be a viable turn signal option for those of us with decent fine motor skills. Hmmm… what would be the options for turning the “solid to blinky” switch on?
I think Google’s got somebody who’s not too bright doing the “spamblog” determination – not based on the determination, which is obviously a comptuer algorithm and prone to ordinary bugs… but with the fact that the letter I.D. is significantly and consistently *harder* than most character i.d. tasks. That makes it more annoying – but are spamblogs more clever at fooling those? I don’t think so. So it’s only the bloggers who are being annoyed – bloggers who *shouldn’t* have to type the stupid letters in teh first place. I don’t mind typing ‘em where I know everybody has to. WHen I type them where I shouldn’t have to, and then you go out of the way to make it hard… STOOPID.

Okay, most of the email groups I’m on are *old* – from the days when geeks were the only ones on ‘em. Still, my heart sang when the Road Bike Rider list actually has a simple form to fill out to *change your address.* NOne of this “remember the special address to sign off, and be sure to get the syntax right, and then rememebr the special address to sign on, and wait for any moderation…”

So sign up today at Road Bike Rider

You’ll get stuff like the product test of two dynamo LED lights.

12 bicycles on the way in. There was something interesting but it was hours ago

Oh, and I”m feeling even more inclined to go to WordPRess with my blog. Seems that my blog has “characteristics of a spam blog.”

And what are they? I thought perhpas it was my frequetn postings, but NO. “Blogs engaged in this behavior are called spam blogs, and can be recognized by their irrelevant, repetitive, or nonsensical text, along with a large number of links, usually all pointing to a single site.”

Well, I don’t have a lot of links.

May all your screws be metal and your balls be rubber, sir Google. (When I was a freshman in college, we had this little seminar that included suggesting that F. U. was really wishing something good for a person, and that a better *curse* would be suggesting that the person *never* partake in such pleasantries. Some of us created ways of expressing that.)