Unmitigated Disaster

Yesterday when I was checking out a theme for a new blog, What’s left of my life, I did a trial run here.

Didn’t look right, so I changed back to this theme…

Guess what?

Disaster!

I just discovered it.

All my widgets had disappeared.

So, I panicked, and had a glass of chocolate, then came back and checked the inactive widgets on a whim.

Phew! Relief, most of the widgets had been parked there.

I have just spent the last hour putting them back in place. They’re not all in the right places yet, I’ll do some tweeking later.

As near as I can figure it, I lost two completely.

So I got off lightly.

I’ll return you to the regular programme, new post coming up in 45 minutes.

2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 22,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 5 Film Festivals

Click here to see the complete report.

I got dobbed again, on Monday Moaning

Sunshine, revisited

Small Footprints re-dobbed me, although removed the obligation of doing a repost.

SF and I have shared a lot since she began blogging. Initially, in the olden days, I used to post the odd  green related stuff on my original Tomus Arcanum (which is long gone), but finding SF’s blog gave me a new impetus. I wasn’t previously committed to ‘green,’ although, many of the things I did in my life were green.

I dithered. I could not find a name for my blog, despite the fact that it was right under my nose. A commenter on Tomus took umbrage at my thoughts on green, and referred to it as ‘eco-crap.’ The penny eventually dropped, and Eco-Crap was born. The rest, so they say is history.

There is much in this world that gets up my nose; and much that gets up my nose is the abuse we are heaping on our little 3rd from the Sun mudball. I tend to say so. I have said that I’m not here to be nice, I call the shots as I see them; a lot of my gall gives you gas. Those of you who are familiar with my blog will realise that, especially in my Monday Moaning and Make you Fink on Friday posts.

The issues that we face in this world are so many and varied, ranging from recycling, to pollution, hot house gases, corrupt governments, greedy corporations, water, etc.

I am going to leave you with, not so much a ‘moan’, but food for thought.

I wonder where our priorities are…

I got dobbed

I didn’t have a post planned for here today, and I haven’t yet found anything satirish enough to make the grade.

The Sunshine Award

And, lo and behold, I awake after my customary morning nap and there in the mail box is a ray of sunshine.

I got dobbed, ah nominated for a Sunshine Award.

Our Tiny Earth, who is the culprit, ah the nominator says this, “I am nominating you for the Sunshine Award. Your blog inspires me to keep on”

I am an inspiration.

I am suitably humbled, which is inversely measured by my cynicism and stoic superciliousness. I always do this when I am faced with embarrassing situations, it’s a defence mechanism.

The acceptance of this award is, of course, binding on certain rules; tasks, if you like.

The Rules:

1. If you are nominated, you must blog a post linking back to the person/blog that nominated you.

Done √

2. You must answer some questions, nominate ten fellow bloggers and link their blogs to the post!

Done √

3. You should comment on your nominees’ blogs to let them know you’ve nominated them.

Done – sort of √

So, here are the questions:

1. Who is your favorite philosopher?

Does one have a ‘favourite’ philosopher? My life has been measured by an amalgam of philosophers, ancient and contemporary. To say that one was a ‘favourite’ would be to demean the contributions of the others. George Carlin would have to have been the bluntest; he didn’t call a spade a spade, he called it a f***ing shovel!

2. What is your favorite number?

12, because that’s the number of children that I have sired and/or raised beneath my roof and will carry my legacy into the future.

Lixo P. Cat

3. What is your favorite animal?

Cat, I was raised with one in the bassinet. Ironically, my current moggy is the mirror image of him, a ginger tabby named Lixo. Lixo is Portuguese for rubbish, I named him that after he was dumped from a car in our local praça like a piece of rubbish as a kitten. Sometimes, in moments of endearment when he does that cat-thing and stops in front of you when you are walking I called him Fluffy Nuts, simply because he has.

4. What are your Facebook and Twitter URLs?

Twitter:  @whopaysthepiper  Facebook – I don’t FB

5. What is your favorite time of the day?

Any part of the day that involves coffee, or appropriately beer (after the sun has topped the yardarm).

6. What was your favorite vacation?

The year I planned to spend in Europe in 1992. On my way to Madrid, I stopped over in Rio de Janeiro for ten days and have never left. I never got to Europe. Living for twenty years in the 3rd World has shown me that life can be a vacation; something you’ll never realise living in the 1st World.

7. What is your favorite physical activity?

Walking, although the last three years it has involved a walking stick, so I should say, a fast hobble.

8. What is your favorite non-alcoholic drink?

Iced tea, or Iced coffee, followed by apple juice.

The passion fruit flower

9. What is your favourite flower?

Passion Fruit. One of the most intricate flowers that exist.

10. What is your passion?

Life and its indelible imprint.

10 Deserving Blogs.

Now this is where, I have a problem.

My reply to OTE’s comment advising me of this nomination was, “sadly I will have to think seriously about the 10 bloggers, the last time I did a meme of this nature, not one of my nominees participated leaving me disappointed and disillusioned with the practice. I vowed not to participate further. I have noted a distinct change to the nature of bloggers since I moved to WordPress; Blogspot bloggers were always guaranteed participants. But I thank you for the opportunity; it’s not my intention to demean the gesture.”

I have participated, because I think it would be priggish of me not to do so in light of the generous nature of the award.

The one bloggerette that springs to mind, one that has inspired me, and inspired the creation of this blog, Small Footprints, has already been nominated. I single her out as my inspiration to things ‘green.’ That is not to belittle the efforts of many others.

I would like to throw the award open and invite the bloggers I have linked on my side bar to consider themselves worthy of this handsome award. If I didn’t think them worthy, they wouldn’t be linked. Proof of the pudding, etc. The rules apply, of course.

The Green Ink Bottle

A new page that I have added to the Top Bar, it is merely a repository for the rare moment of brilliance that shines through my dusty exterior. Original quotes from me.

Some serious, some logical, some tongue in cheek.

The comments are linked to the post they came from, and there are more to come, it’s is an on-going work.

 

A Bull by the Horns

I have decide to take the bull by the horns.

While I am not completely comfortable with WordPress, I have totally lost faith in Blogger and I feel it has seriously undermined my ability to blog.

I have to figure WP out. I cannot find the template I want unless I pay; and I don’t want to pay. I am not into blogging for the money, although donations would be a nice way to recognise the hard work I do here, so I don’t see why I should pay.

In the previous post you will see all that was on my Life is a Labyrinth Eco-Crap Page. I am going to continue here.

Wish me luck and  hope you enjoy or hate what I have to offer. Please be patient while I learn how to ‘do it;’