Feet, say “Good-bye” to Rug. Face, say “Hello” to Concrete Floor.

14 May 2019

Since the I.T. weasels at “bluehost/wordpress” (rtm) have seen fit to throw more impediments in the way of my learning to ‘b log, I suppose I’m going to have to start over. Let’s reset that timer, then, and see how this works. With any luck I should be successfully ‘b logging any time, as it has been almost five minutes and twenty months now…

Such optimism, as invigorating and inspiring as it may be, is hardly warranted by the evidence. I am nowhere nearly as e-woak, sadly, as the hip groovy ‘b logsters of the plenum cybernium. But I am undaunted and undismayed and undeterred and committed to antagonizing the thoughtless, the careless, the evil, the shallow, and mostly, the egregiously anti-literate!

Tutorials Mark II
Overview: Well this is encouraging. “Overview” is new, and offers perhaps a general understanding of what’s to come. That’s a helpful difference already. .Perhaps Mark II (of the tutorial series at least) will be an actual improvement over Mark I.
I’m generally optimistic BEFORE I press “play.”

WAIT! WHAT?
Installing WordPress? What happened to OVERVIEW? And besides, hasn’t wordpress already been installed? I’ve got that already, haven’t I? Besides, I just copy in from my home program anyway. What’s the deal? Oh well, nothin’ for it but to press on…

That WAS the first video. Moving on…

Um… “Basics of wordpress?
C-PANEL! Look! It’s a C-Panel! Finally! Never seen one before. For months those pinheads at the “help” line have been yammering about “C-Panels” but never show me one! After twenty months I finally get to see!
And it looks like nothing I’ve seen anywhere on my own screen. How did they get there and what does it do?
That may have been yet another waste of effort. All of those unfamiliar screens and unexplained motion seemed to get finally to the familiar “dashboard” screen that I tripped over long ago.
When I think of all the HOURS I spent talking to the alleged “help” line and their fucking refusal to explain what a “c-panel” was, how to get to it, and what I was supposed to do when I got there, I begin to think that maybe “weasel” is a little too generous.
Must stew….

29 March 2020:  Bluehost still declines to welcome the innocent.  Apparently, a “theme” is not a motif, or a style, or a topic.  Its new (anti-intuitive and non-obvious) cyberlogue definition seems to be “format” or “layout” or “pattern” or “template” and refers NOT to the “style” or “look” or “motif” but to the relative dimensions or aspect ratios available on the screen.
Hmmm…  “Anti-intuitive” and “non-obvious”   Could there be a better recommendation than that for cyberlogue neologisms?  How better to keep the riff-raff out of the Elites’ playground?

28 August 2020 I would like to thank my friends and family, and the TWSE, for their kind assistance in making this website the attractive success that it is.  I’d like to, except they didn’t, and it isn’t, so I won’t.

31 August 2020 I’ve got another datum! I’ve got another datum! With these I can now get a better idea of the translation scale I need to understand the assurances and blandishments of the savvy marketeer. Given that “blogging in five minutes” is going on three years now, and well short of accomplishment, I can readily surmise that “takes literally no time to set up” could well mean additional hours of frustration. With additional data I should be able to start drawing some reasonable curves.