Blogger blogs: A little lesson

Ah, well, yes...I see..  

So, this is a lifelong learning blog in which I recount my learning experiences, and I have had a new one.

Some learning experiences are created, others just, sorta...happen to you.

I have learned that you can cut and paste images into a Blogger blog. Just don't expect them to stay there.

File it under "hoisted by my own petard". 

I discovered that I could just compose a whole blog in Google Docs and then copy the text and images over to Blogger, thus circumventing the image insert command in the Blogger editor. I started doing that at the end of 2019 and it worked well until a couple of weeks ago. Then it exploded.

It is frustrating, weird, and sort of interesting.

It seems to be chaotic. Some photos are still there. How are they different from the ones that disappeared? Computers are frustrating (or is that "fasctrating").

In Google's defense, I never saw where they suggested using cut and paste for images.

So, two years worth of photos. They're still in my photo archives. I might take a while to reinsert them, a few at a time. In the meantime, I will go back to inserting pictures via the insert command.

If you want photos from an exploded blog, drop a line and I'll be glad to send them by email.

grph

--- Websites, Blogs, and Videos...Oh my!! ---

2016

Actually, media is a new thing for me - on computers anyway. I operated the media department of the School of Pharmacy at Auburn University as a work-study student back in the 70s but computers didn't have much of a part there. I picked up an equivalent of a minor in computer science - I already had three minors, though, so I didn't get to claim it. Comparing those computers with this one (the one I'm using to compose this blog) is sorta funny.

Computer graphics back then was - okay, I won't go there.

I've even been exposed to HTML, but I can't do everything all at once. I didn't compose this blog from scratch. Fact is, I took the easy way out and used Google Blogger. But, then, I like the results - don't reinvent the wheel - right? All you have to do is just put everything together the way you want it.

I already had a website - The Therian Timeline. I took the easy way with that, too. I used Site Solution, a service provided by Yahoo Aabaco Small Business services. Again, you just tell it what you want and it does it.

I could have chosen a bunch of other such throw-it-together tools on the Internet but, you get the idea.

I'm working on a series of science demonstration videos to go along with my blogs for when I get to physics in a couple of years. See, I plan ahead! I'm a new hand to computer videos so, you guessed it - I took the easy way.

My laptop already had a video program called Dell Webcam Central, so I'm using it to put together videos, along with a desktop recorder called CamStudio Recorder. That way, I can display everything I put on the video - LibreOffice Impress presentations, spreadsheets, webcam videos, whatever - and CamStudio will record it all. So, if I can just live long enough....

Well, you'll get to see it if I do.

Until, then, I'll be here.

Stay well.
Wolf