Luna TailAnxiety, Dogs, and Life

Okay.. I am still trying to understand and use OpenIDs. At long last, I think I finally understand.

So an OpenID has to be in the form of a URL. Big thing that was tripping me up, lol. And there are places where you can register your OpenID and they kinda are like an OpenID host. You sign up with them and they give you an OpenID that you can use to log into various websites that support OpenID.

I like Beemba so far. I have my own Beemba OpenID. So when I go to various websites, I use my Beemba OpenID to log in (yes, I have to log into Beemba so you can’t, even if you know my Beemba OpenID) and then voila, I’m in via OpenID.

And if you click the link to see my Beemba OpenID, you’ll see various information about me, too. And this is what I’ve been wanting! Instead of clicking my OpenID and seeing just a site, with nothing about me, that’s boring. This lists my FriendFeed info, Twitter, Del.icio.us info, and my website address and my picture of Tatum.

So far, so good!

And now for my relaxing weekend… ha! Well, not so much. Maybe Sunday afternoon. I reserved some books from the library… gonna check out Dennis C Carey too, see what he’s all about. I want some books on CD too to take with me when I got to Laramie the weekend after the 24th of July, so maybe they’ll be some good ones!

Well, today is Easter. It is very early this year. My friend told me, last week, how they figure Easter.. and it’s the first Sunday after the full moon after spring solstice. Well, we just had a full moon, and it’s just barely spring solstice, and so we have Easter!

I’m going to go to my parents today and have some Easter dinner and companionship. So I won’t be around much. I did try to get some Entrecard drops in this morning, though.

Happy spring, too!

Okay so now I’m trying out BlogDesk. Why does it fascinate me to be able to blog from my desktop, instead of from the blog itself? I don’t know.. but it’s pretty slick. And BlogDesk is free, unlike BlogJet, that has a cost, though I didn’t look close enough as to how much it is.

I like BlogDesk… it sorts my categories nicely. I can insert links easily, and it does upload pictures… but I use Flickr and it doesn’t seem to have Flickr support, so I’d have to go in and edit my posts manually, or post from the blog itself, to get Flickr pictures posted.

Not sure if I’ll keep trying Desktop Blogging Software… I guess the Tag API from Wordpress doesn’t work with these programs, and so I have to go into my posts to Tag them after I post. Which, also, seems redundant.

Hrm.

I went and, finally, downloaded a Podcast Receiver today… been wanting to listen to some Radio West podcasts and I keep forgetting to get them.

I downloaded Ziepod. I used Juice a while ago, but I liked the look of Ziepod and I also like how I can minimize it to just a bar on the desktop… kinda like winamp. Though I like the name, and the lemon, on Juice better.

So far so good for Ziepod. And I got to listen to the podcast I’d been hoping to for a while. In Defense of Food with Michael Pollan. I see his book, An Omnivore’s Dilemma, is for sale as an audiobook. I am going to have to see if I can rent it from the library.

Okay, after long last I finally get del.icio.us. And I have my own account, too. And, on top of that, it’s actually organized. Go figure. Me organized. LOL.

Mainly I finally get it because of this plugin for Firefox. It lets me sync my Firefox bookmarks with del.icio.us, and there is a bookmark window I can open in FF to access my del.icio.us bookmarks.

So I’m off and running with del.icio.us. One less thing to backup in preparation of my laptop crashing, which I’m sure will happen again one day much to my dismay.

And, the plugin lets me open the bookmarks in tabs. Which I’m using to hit a number of Entrecard sites every day. Well, not every day. And only when I remember. And not with all 3 of my Entrecard accounts… but hey, I’m trying.

And if my sprained ankle doesn’t heal up soon, I’m going to need a stair lift to get up and down the stairs at my house. Ugh. My ankle needs to heal!

Well, I’m trying to blog from my Desktop. Currently I’m using BlogJet. Mainly because it has Flickr Support and I haven’t seen any of the other programs have Flickr support. Now that all my pictures are on Flickr (to save space on my VPS), I really need the support.

So this is a test post from BlogJet to see how it works. The downside of this app is that it has a price. 30 Free Trial, but then it costs. And I’m not sure I want to pay, when I can post from Wordpress for free.

It seems to have both category and tag support, too, which is nice, but it’s not pulling up the current Tags I have in my blog, and I wish it did.

I’ll try it for 30 days and see what I think.

Okay.. yeah, nutso me. I created another blog. It’s a photo blog. I love taking pictures.. and I love my new Digital SLR so I thought I should put them on a photo blog.

Since it’ll mostly be of the dogs, I bought the domain www.tailpix.com

Tail Pix. Cute, huh?

Now, since it’s 8:56 PM and it should be 7:56 PM, I’m going to go to bed and complain some more about the time change.

Today is the day of the year I hate the very most. It’s not that I hate Daylight Savings Time… though I really don’t care for it and wouldn’t mind it getting darker earlier in the evening. I just hate this time change.

And I hate it (yeah I know ‘hate’ is a strong word, and this is a strong feeling) because getting up at 5am for work every morning is painful enough. Having to adjust to getting up at 4am every morning is a killer. And it will probably take me a couple of weeks to adjust to it.

I do like the fall back time change okay, because it’s the longest day of the year for me… getting an extra hour. Now that’s cool, let’s always have 25 hour days! But I guess the Earth won’t change it’s rotation just for me. Dangit!

Anyway, I’m having a nice easy weekend. Going to take Muffit, Chase and Tatum to practice flyball today. Yay! It will be Muffit’s first time out. He’s not ready to run yet but I want to see what he’s like in the environment and with the other dogs and people. Plus, it is a gorgeous day! The sun is shining and maybe I’ll get some nice pictures. I even can open my exterior shutters (if I had any) to let all the sunlight in!

Okay okay so some of them were from the beginning of January. Maybe some were from December.. but I stopped replying when I started moving my host to the VPS. And now, finally, at long last, I think I’ve replied to everyone.

Even without any gold cufflinks I was able to get it done. And right now Lucy, my sweet Lu Lu Bee, is sitting next to me on the couch and wanting to eat her Dinner. But if I say the magic Dinner word, then I’ll be a lost cause.

I feel like I’ve gotten some good things done online today. Took the day off to be relaxing. It is supposed to snow tonight, winter storm warning. We’ll see if it happens.

And maybe I’ll watch a movie tonight too, though I’m having fun blogging today. I need to catch up on reading blogs next!