I finally decided to start up a blogroll. That’s a list of favorite blog sites.
My first addition is the Lone Prairie blog of Julie Neidlinger. Her’s was the first “real” blog I ever found and I’ve been reading it regularly for years. She’s an artist who lives and works in North Dakota. It’s a fun read.
I’ve been adding a post every day this week, but today is a two-fer. A post and a blogroll link.
-H
This evening, I came up with a solution for the picture problem I’ve been having and complaining about: my pictures wouldn’t fit into the blog space. I fooled around for a while and stumbled upon a simple solution (inserting a width command into the HTML). I had tried something similar early on, but didn’t get an adequate view and gave up…my bad.
I’ve been going through my old posts and re-doing them to let the pictures show naturally. You may find occasional missed comments where I state that you need to click the picture to get the full view. Actually, you will get a somewhat larger picture if you do click it, so the post is still accurate.
It’s nice to eliminate a minor, but very annoying, problem. Of course, now I have to edit the HTML of every post with a picture (not hard, but I’ve gotten to tolerate the GUI WordPress provides and going to the code is a small pain.
-H
I never knew her, never saw her, and barely knew she existed until hearing the terrible stories about how she was being mistreated by her son.
But, she done good stuff. Real good stuff. She was one of the backers of….well, almost all the cool cultural stuff in NYC. I won’t list them here. What I’ll remark about is the New York Public Library and how there’s a special little bench area, halfway up the stairs in the grand hall of the building. (It’s to the right as you go in.) I’ve sat there several times and just viewed a nice view of a grand building’s entryway and thought good thoughts about the woman that particular bench is dedicated to. Her name’s in a number of parts of the building but I have an affinity for that bench. I’ll post a picture soon.
Brooke Astor, dead at 105. Thank you so very much Mrs. Astor. And rest in peace.
-H
Yesterday, I got a referral from Theo (at theophany.biz/theojournal) and had the second biggest day of visitors yet.
And I got called a “git” by one of the referred. As I understand it, that’s a modest and even affectionate, insult. I can live with it.
-H
Cuzin Cathy has won the “First Comment” contest and is granted all the honors that go with it.
Thanks for doing it. It actually took me about four tries to figure out how to “approve” the thing.
-H
Famous Ankles 