Thanks, Ruth, for posting the day. It's confusing since some of yesterday's later comments seem to have vanished (there were 30 comments first thing this morning, and now there are 23...???)
ANYHOW, I got up early this morning, started grading, and just now sat for 15 minutes on mat & cushion with Reg curled up beside me. "We" slept through the night, so that's good, I think.
I really do like meditating in the morning: everything is so quiet and "fresh." Today I'll probably stop for multiple "sanity breaks" while grading, so I'll think of you all during those pauses.
Anyone who wants to post the new day as opposed to comment (ie the first person on each day) needs to click on the edit pencil at the bottom of the previous day, and follow the instructions laid out by Julian. Should be very simple. Any probs let us know. Hope you enjoy the new look!
I am going to take a break, meaning meditate when I feel like it, and see where that takes me. Might be interesting
lorraine, i deleted two of mine only as they had my email address on them which is an invitation for spammers, and then posted them back up. There are the same amount as there were when I got in last night as far as I can see. I never saw thiry! Wow, what a mystery....
by the way, re posting, I put 'overtime' in the blog title.
Ruth, I don't have an edit pencil at the bottom of the posts here, even when I enter it from the Dashboard. I know what you mean because I have them on my own blog when I view it from Blogger Dashboard ... but not when I go into it as normal.
You should be able to go to blogger.com (not this blog) and enter your username & password to access your Blogger Dashboard. This will list your various blogs (this one & any others you might have through Blogger).
If you click the blog name "100 days" on your dashboard, you should get a screen that allows you to edit existing posts & post new ones. Since there shouldn't be any need to edit existing posts, you can just "Create a new post" by clicking the blue button in the upper left corner.
Ruth, the missing comments were *after* the ones talking about Blogger invites...there were comments on the new template/banner, and then they disappeared. Weird.
Yes, thanks for that! I can certainly post a new date, which is cool.
What I don't seem to have the rights to do is to use "edit" to go into the previous date and copy and paste the format, then simply change the number (2,3,4 etc) so that all the dates are the same font, height, as Julian/Ruth have put in their instructions.
I think (???) that you have to have Admin access to edit existing posts, and most of us are Contributors, not Admins. (Ruth/Julian have Admin status to fix the template, but the rest of us have Contributor status "just" to create new posts.)
I think the idea here is you want only a few people to have "total control" of the blog's inner workings. It's really easy to go in & screw things up (I know because I've done it on my blogs!) So it's probably best that we not have too many cooks stirring the blog-stew.
(At least that's my thinking on it. Personally, I'm content to be able to post new entries: I've no need or desire to tweak the template and/or edit previous posts.)
Could perhaps Ruth/Julian or Dale post instructions on how to get the right format for the dates? So that it would be easy and quick to get it right first time!! Or is it really simple and I am just complicating things unnecessarily?
Glad Reggie and you had a better night, and good luck with the grading.
Yes you're right, it seems you do have to be an administrator to edit posts, so J has made it come up automatically on any new post. All you have to do is change the number. Hope this helps. Let me know.
By the way I have no need or desire to be an administrator. It was only so J could access the template to put up the new banner. It's also useful for him in terms of his desire to continually want to make things more beautiful and work better, so that's all it will be used for.
I may be being paranoid but I am slightly concerned about the mystery comments about the template which have disappeared - in conjunction with the fact that no-one seems to have said anything about the new look nice or otherwise...I am really excited by it. Is anyone else? And/Or is there a problem? I feel like someone who has just had a really radical haircut and no-one is saying anything (which also happens to be true!)
Hi Ruth I posted a nice comment! this morning at the foot of the previous thread before this one was up. The mystery is that one of your earlier comments then appeared after it. Could it be just teething problems getting everything up and running do you think?
I am quite surprised that things have gone as smoothly as they have. :-)
Ruth, probably what you need to get the posting right is to create a member without admin privileges for test driving. Feel free -- all you need is an email address to send the invitation to.
I'm delighted by the way the "blogger gunk" on the top has been grayed and faded so that it doesn't compete with the real stuff. Excellent!
I need to take a break from this - running late already and urgent things to do, but I will check in this evening and touch base again on whether I can post the date in format without being an administrator.
Ruth: On reflection I won't do a test post this evening because I don't think I have post deletion rights either, so I wouldn't be able to delete the test .. If I'm wrong and you would like me to try, just let me know. I will visit periodically. Hope you have managed to have a peaceful Sunday regardless! And thanks again you both - the template looks great.
The news sounds not too bad with Reggie - sending him healing vibes and love to both of you, Lorianne.
Wow, a day and a half offline busy working on an urgent copy-editing job, and what do I find? The new template is lovely. Ruth and Julian, many, many thanks!!
I haven't received any emails about access, but I think my email box may have been full and bouncing :-( It would be useful for me to be able to post the new date, as Mary, Ruth or I in Europe are likely to be here first on a given day.
Though I'd like to have occasional posts with guidance or sharing experiences, I'd like only a few people to be able to post (technically post, as opposed to write) these, and for there to be a clear commitment to avoid proseletising (very tired, can't spell) for any particular tradition or practice. Perhaps it should say this somewhere. Shall we just get used to the new look and sharing the date posting, first, and move on to considering substantive posts when/if we start again at Day One in the new year?
This is very exciting and beautiful. I feel very positive about our first 100 days, and about continuing.
Yes, the new template looks fantastic; I'm sorry I forgot to mention that before!
It makes sense that the Europeans would post the day before we Americans are up & meditating. Is it problematic that the timestamp is in Dale's Pacific timezone? How many hours difference is there between, say, London time and US West Coast time? It would be wild if someone in Europe posted in "their" morning only to have it show up as "yesterday" on the US West Coast!
PS: Word verification is "baskstyp," which I dare you to say aloud, quickly, three times!
Lorianne has a point. I had planned to post the date when I get up tomorrow morning (c.6 am). However, as this blog seems to be on Dale's time zone (8 hrs behind) it will show up as Sunday! And as I leave the house at 7.30am and cannot post the date at work, I will not be able to do it tomorrow.
Is there any way Dale or Ruth could change the time zone shown? If yes, which one shall we use, GMT or something else?
Re occasional substantive posts, I agree with Jean, I think this can be developed later if we all wish as we get comfortable with the new date posting system.
Blogger settings include the facility to change the time zone. However, reverting to GMT feels a bit like neocolonialism - perhaps pick one in between...
What about about East Coast North America time? That would work well in that I think it will be midnight in that time zone just before the Europeans start getting up, which means that we can post the date then and be in the correct day. (Is this clear?)
I'd prefer using GMT, just because, as Orwell (or was it E. B. White?) said, "the obvious is better than the obvious avoidance of it." I mean, our date-and-time system does take Europe as its center, and there's no point in moving it now. It has to have some center, and the East Coast of the United States is the heart of a more swaggering colonialism than anything coming out of Europe these days :-)
I think GMT makes as much sense as anything. Otherwise, we could arbitrarily pick Iceland or some point in the Atlantic to be our "virtual timestamp home." :-)
btw, Reggie hasn't gotten sick today, and he's actually eaten a little bit of "real" food without immediately throwing it back up. Progress...
Oh, and what I really wanted to say about this template is that I like it because it has a clean and spare look, very elegant. It's the kind of look I like to design. Couldn't have asked for more!
I love the new template. Glad Reggie is doing better. A time zone in the middle seems best. And I managed 15 minutes of meditation today, too, that were truly "nothing," which, naturally set off a whole thought train on what is emptiness. Ah, sigh. Hugs everyone!
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Thanks, Ruth, for posting the day. It's confusing since some of yesterday's later comments seem to have vanished (there were 30 comments first thing this morning, and now there are 23...???)
ANYHOW, I got up early this morning, started grading, and just now sat for 15 minutes on mat & cushion with Reg curled up beside me. "We" slept through the night, so that's good, I think.
I really do like meditating in the morning: everything is so quiet and "fresh." Today I'll probably stop for multiple "sanity breaks" while grading, so I'll think of you all during those pauses.
OK everyone, as you can see, it is up!!!
Anyone who wants to post the new day as opposed to comment (ie the first person on each day) needs to click on the edit pencil at the bottom of the previous day, and follow the instructions laid out by Julian. Should be very simple. Any probs let us know. Hope you enjoy the new look!
I am going to take a break, meaning meditate when I feel like it, and see where that takes me. Might be interesting
lorraine, i deleted two of mine only as they had my email address on them which is an invitation for spammers, and then posted them back up. There are the same amount as there were when I got in last night as far as I can see. I never saw thiry! Wow, what a mystery....
by the way, re posting, I put 'overtime' in the blog title.
Ruth, I don't have an edit pencil at the bottom of the posts here, even when I enter it from the Dashboard. I know what you mean because I have them on my own blog when I view it from Blogger Dashboard ... but not when I go into it as normal.
And the normal "Edit" button alongside the listing of posts that I have on my blog dashboard doesn't appear on this one for me...
I'm a little confused, can I post a new date without doing it through the "edit pencil" route?
You should be able to go to blogger.com (not this blog) and enter your username & password to access your Blogger Dashboard. This will list your various blogs (this one & any others you might have through Blogger).
If you click the blog name "100 days" on your dashboard, you should get a screen that allows you to edit existing posts & post new ones. Since there shouldn't be any need to edit existing posts, you can just "Create a new post" by clicking the blue button in the upper left corner.
Ruth, the missing comments were *after* the ones talking about Blogger invites...there were comments on the new template/banner, and then they disappeared. Weird.
Hi Lorianne
Yes, thanks for that! I can certainly post a new date, which is cool.
What I don't seem to have the rights to do is to use "edit" to go into the previous date and copy and paste the format, then simply change the number (2,3,4 etc) so that all the dates are the same font, height, as Julian/Ruth have put in their instructions.
Is there any way around this does anyone know?
I think (???) that you have to have Admin access to edit existing posts, and most of us are Contributors, not Admins. (Ruth/Julian have Admin status to fix the template, but the rest of us have Contributor status "just" to create new posts.)
I think the idea here is you want only a few people to have "total control" of the blog's inner workings. It's really easy to go in & screw things up (I know because I've done it on my blogs!) So it's probably best that we not have too many cooks stirring the blog-stew.
(At least that's my thinking on it. Personally, I'm content to be able to post new entries: I've no need or desire to tweak the template and/or edit previous posts.)
Lorianne. absolutely. too many cooks.
Could perhaps Ruth/Julian or Dale post instructions on how to get the right format for the dates? So that it would be easy and quick to get it right first time!! Or is it really simple and I am just complicating things unnecessarily?
Glad Reggie and you had a better night, and good luck with the grading.
Yes you're right, it seems you do have to be an administrator to edit posts, so J has made it come up automatically on any new post. All you have to do is change the number. Hope this helps. Let me know.
By the way I have no need or desire to be an administrator. It was only so J could access the template to put up the new banner. It's also useful for him in terms of his desire to continually want to make things more beautiful and work better, so that's all it will be used for.
I may be being paranoid but I am slightly concerned about the mystery comments about the template which have disappeared - in conjunction with the fact that no-one seems to have said anything about the new look nice or otherwise...I am really excited by it. Is anyone else? And/Or is there a problem? I feel like someone who has just had a really radical haircut and no-one is saying anything (which also happens to be true!)
oops not QUITE working yet. hang in there. I'll post the days until it works properly!
Hi Ruth
I posted a nice comment! this morning at the foot of the previous thread before this one was up. The mystery is that one of your earlier comments then appeared after it. Could it be just teething problems getting everything up and running do you think?
I am quite surprised that things have gone as smoothly as they have. :-)
And just to repeat - I really like the template!!!!! And apart from early riser Lorianne, this others are probably still having a Sunday lie-in......
Remember the time, Ruth! The new template appeared in the wee hours of the morning, where I am :-)
Looks wonderful to me! Tremendous. So clear and light. Thanks so much!
seems to work now...?
phew on all counts and am not having such a bad hairday now! thanks. might even go and sit now.
Ruth, probably what you need to get the posting right is to create a member without admin privileges for test driving. Feel free -- all you need is an email address to send the invitation to.
I'm delighted by the way the "blogger gunk" on the top has been grayed and faded so that it doesn't compete with the real stuff. Excellent!
Hi Ruth
I need to take a break from this - running late already and urgent things to do, but I will check in this evening and touch base again on whether I can post the date in format without being an administrator.
You're doing a really good job!
The template looks great, Ruth! Don't stress! I just logged on here and hadn't seen it before just now.
Ruth: On reflection I won't do a test post this evening because I don't think I have post deletion rights either, so I wouldn't be able to delete the test .. If I'm wrong and you would like me to try, just let me know. I will visit periodically. Hope you have managed to have a peaceful Sunday regardless! And thanks again you both - the template looks great.
Hi everyone!
The news sounds not too bad with Reggie - sending him healing vibes and love to both of you, Lorianne.
Wow, a day and a half offline busy working on an urgent copy-editing job, and what do I find? The new template is lovely. Ruth and Julian, many, many thanks!!
I haven't received any emails about access, but I think my email box may have been full and bouncing :-( It would be useful for me to be able to post the new date, as Mary, Ruth or I in Europe are likely to be here first on a given day.
Though I'd like to have occasional posts with guidance or sharing experiences, I'd like only a few people to be able to post (technically post, as opposed to write) these, and for there to be a clear commitment to avoid proseletising (very tired, can't spell) for any particular tradition or practice. Perhaps it should say this somewhere. Shall we just get used to the new look and sharing the date posting, first, and move on to considering substantive posts when/if we start again at Day One in the new year?
This is very exciting and beautiful. I feel very positive about our first 100 days, and about continuing.
Looks lovely!
thx & xo
Yes, the new template looks fantastic; I'm sorry I forgot to mention that before!
It makes sense that the Europeans would post the day before we Americans are up & meditating. Is it problematic that the timestamp is in Dale's Pacific timezone? How many hours difference is there between, say, London time and US West Coast time? It would be wild if someone in Europe posted in "their" morning only to have it show up as "yesterday" on the US West Coast!
PS: Word verification is "baskstyp," which I dare you to say aloud, quickly, three times!
Lorianne has a point. I had planned to post the date when I get up tomorrow morning (c.6 am). However, as this blog seems to be on Dale's time zone (8 hrs behind) it will show up as Sunday! And as I leave the house at 7.30am and cannot post the date at work, I will not be able to do it tomorrow.
Is there any way Dale or Ruth could change the time zone shown? If yes, which one shall we use, GMT or something else?
Re occasional substantive posts, I agree with Jean, I think this can be developed later if we all wish as we get comfortable with the new date posting system.
Blogger settings include the facility to change the time zone. However, reverting to GMT feels a bit like neocolonialism - perhaps pick one in between...
Oh dear, didn't mean to be neocolonialist ....
What about about East Coast North America time? That would work well in that I think it will be midnight in that time zone just before the Europeans start getting up, which means that we can post the date then and be in the correct day. (Is this clear?)
I'd prefer using GMT, just because, as Orwell (or was it E. B. White?) said, "the obvious is better than the obvious avoidance of it." I mean, our date-and-time system does take Europe as its center, and there's no point in moving it now. It has to have some center, and the East Coast of the United States is the heart of a more swaggering colonialism than anything coming out of Europe these days :-)
I think GMT makes as much sense as anything. Otherwise, we could arbitrarily pick Iceland or some point in the Atlantic to be our "virtual timestamp home." :-)
btw, Reggie hasn't gotten sick today, and he's actually eaten a little bit of "real" food without immediately throwing it back up. Progress...
Lorianne, that's wonderful news. I've been worried about poor old Reg.
Happy to be oriented to GMT - whatever works.
Oh, and what I really wanted to say about this template is that I like it because it has a clean and spare look, very elegant. It's the kind of look I like to design. Couldn't have asked for more!
Jean, I've resent your invitation -- let me know if it seems not to have gotten there.
I love the new template. Glad Reggie is doing better. A time zone in the middle seems best. And I managed 15 minutes of meditation today, too, that were truly "nothing," which, naturally set off a whole thought train on what is emptiness. Ah, sigh. Hugs everyone!
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