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Still Born/Still Life
It's going to be mostly political, but partially emotional, in the catharsis category.
MINDSAY SHORTCOMINGS
(or, Things I'm not really concerned about, but will elaborate on anyway.)
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Today is my day to illuminate a few of the shortcomings of Mindsay. "So what's new", you might say. OneWalrus bitching again. But this time I think I have some really valid points. Please take the 45-minutes and read this! (Ok, so it's only three-minutes reading!)
Last night I read a post by dismh8 (now gone). In the post it was explained that he was essentially leaving Mindsay because of its inferior abilities to modify and control. I believe dismh8 was primarily frustrated with the text editor. I agree.
Open up the text editor to write a new blog. Look at the size of this window. I have used or experimented with almost all the other blog services and none of them restrict and punish you with this skinny, ineffectual space. The window in this editor is only just a bit larger than the freekin' "Bully" banner advertisment. (Which by the way is very irritating every time I accidently pass my mouse over it and the trailer I do not want to see starts to play. That "accident-placement" is intentional.)
Let's compare the Mindsay editor with a couple others by pasting in identical text. Take a look at how much of the text is actually visible in the editing window, and how much space is taken up with superflous stuff.
MINDSAY EDITOR
BLOGGER (BLOGSPOT) EDITOR
ZOUNDRY EDITOR
Do you see the difference? In each editor window I have pasted identical text. Look at the difference of how much you can actually see.
Having been here at Mindsay for almost a year I have seen no improvements, or heard any annoucements for them. What I have seen instead are modifications and improvements to the stupid and meaningless "top-blogs" and the photo and video services. To me this is the equivalent of turning the radio up when your car engine starts making strange noises. The underlying, primary mechanics of Mindsay are being neglected while spinner wheel-covers and a pearl finish are being attended to and heralded.
Recently a new blog experiment called shhh was deleted by some malicious user. The same experiment has been going on for years over on blogspot
( http://postsecret.blogspot.com/) without one incidence of deletion. Why? Because attention is given to the most essential services a blog should offer. Can the feature to appoint a single "administrator" to an account be that difficult?
Finally, I would ask Brian and Adam to tell us what sort of keyword-scanning they are using on our blogs. It is beyond coincidence that Adam never visits my blog unless I include the name "Adam" in my blog. What other words or names are you scanning for? (And then, even though that particular blog was asking him for a response, I never got one.)
See, what did I tell you. Within an hour of posting with the name "Adam" in the body of my blog, there he is visiting.
Come on guys, think about giving some attention to this antiquated, restrictive text editor before you add more bells and whistles and ads. I'm not pissed, irritated or angry, I just think priorities are misplaced... what's new about that right!
P.S.
My 15-year-old son and I arrived early for a movie. While waiting in the parking lot he fired up his laptop for me to help him install Autocad Lt O7 for school. I had to comment how amazing it still is to me, to be able to have a computer in the front seat of your car. I told him, "If I had said I was going to bring a computer to school tomorrow in 1967, my friends would have laughed and asked how many semi-trucks would be bringing it.
It's true, but what amazes me even more is how many people today barely scratch the surface in utilizing what a computer is capable of. I would have to go back to the automobile analogy. I believe that just as it is all to common for people to not have the foggiest idea of how their car works, the same applies to their computer. I would implore readers to learn the mechanics of the machine itself. Also, I would strongly urge readers to dig behind everything you see on the surface of the web unless you're content with being subject to demographics, marketing and propoganda. Look, it's like when you travel. If you really want to experience the truth of a place you have to get off the beaten path and be an explorer. (No pun intended.)
P.P.S. I am wondering why it was objectionable for the "community" members when a blogger was talking about how fucked up high they were, but it's ok for another blogger here to consistently make blog enteries such as "I sucked him off while he fingered my ass." ??? Just wondering?
P.P.P.S. How could I neglect to kvetch the top blogs. Today the emphasis is on spelling. If you can spell incorrectly in the first sentence you win!
P.P.P.P.S. The new "Find-People" feature is fun, you know, to "find" people.
Oh, enough already!
Pablo
©2006
Expect more content in the near future(after the mid-year examinations, to be precise).
Ciao.
After signing up at BlogSpot (blogger.com), MyBlogSite, Xanga, and checking out various other blogging sites, I've finally decided to settle in MindSay. Xanga I tried out a long time ago, when every person I knew from high school seemed to have an account. I joined the craze but was never really into it, mainly because I thought people were so full of themselves and seemed like they were just showing off what a great life or how popular they were, very immature stuff. Then Friendster came along. Most people I knew slowed their activity at Xanga and concentrated on posting pics (mainly pics they take at clubs w/a shitload of "friends") on their profiles. Okay, back to blogging. Xanga, I found out, consists of mostly teenage users and college kids. Although I wasn't too different from them, I didn't like the childish air there. Then a few years later (which is now), I suddenly got interested in blogging again. I encounter blogs regularly, but always thought I couldn't possibly write so much and no one would give a crap about what I write. Maybe because I've become even more narcissistic now, I started thinking someone might actually be interested in the crap I have to say. I read the article from About.com and searched around Google to see what free blogging sites there were. I know blogger.com is the biggest one around, but I tend not to like commercial giants who don't give a crap about their users when they get so big, so I tried MyBlogSite. I've never really blogged before, so I wanted something extremely easy to understand as I hate to read instructions. Then I signed up at BlogSpot because MyBlogSite didn't offer enough features. BlogSpot had quite a few features for free, but I had to deal with CSS in order to customize the themes, and there weren't many of them. Plus the username "evilbunny" was taken and I'm a real sucker for a nice url (don't know why I care so much since I have my own hosted domains). Then after checking out a few other sites and was mostly turned off by their web design, I finally came here. MindSay had my desired username available and customizing my theme was simpler than at BlogSpot, plus I read that there's a nice community here, so here I am. Unless I missed it, I wish MindSay would offer more design customizations. Now I would actually like to be able to edit the CSS for my theme in addition to easily changing minor stuff. If someone actually manages to finish reading this long ass rambling as a post, please let me know if there's any way to further edit the theme/template than what is allowed at MindSay.
Another thing I wish were different is that blog hosts should show a preview of their available templates BEFORE signup. I'm assuming most users don't know how to write a style sheet from scratch right? Wouldn't nice-looking templates/themes be important to a prospective user? I don't know, maybe I'm just overly superficial.
This was my first four hours of this Monday morning:
I was posting this entry in my blogger just because...
Then THIS HAPPENS!!! It's the worst thing that can happen to someone's blogger page!
So I fixed it!!! Whew...
So, how was your Monday morning?