Gifted Typist

You’ve heard all the excuses:
- Busy as a bee
- Life gets in the way
- Twitter’s taken over
- Computer problems

- sore neck and shoulders
- dead tired
This isn’t an “excuse” post, just a touch-down to say I haven’t gone away.
And I haven’t lost interest, although the old drive-2-post ain’t what it used to be.
In the old days, [...]

Lately I’ve noticed a lot of sign-offs and sign-outs from some of my A-Lister bloggers.
It started last year when Chelene the investment banker from New York City signed off Bliss and Bile. That sent shock waves through our little blogging community.
Her blog was funny, smart and consistent in tone and output. I used to visit [...]

I must confess to you, my dear bloggies, that I’ve been cheating on you.
It’s true. I’ve been living a dual on-line life: One here on GT and the another on Twitter.
For the longest time I tried to keep the two worlds separate, like Jon tried to do on Jon and Kate plus Eight.
GT is still [...]

In the past, updating this blog has been traumatic as this humble typist grappled with the complexities of FTP, servers, deleting and replacing the correct files.
Such is the joy of having a blog of one’s own.
But since Wordpress 2.7, our world has become easier.
Now it’s just one press of a button on the dashboard and [...]

Thanks to the famous woman with the seeing, hearing and speaking challenges and one of the lead singers of that famous Brit band of mop tops from 1960s, GT has been invaded with hits.
They’re actually more like hit-n-runs, hundreds of them. The other day I had almost 1000 hits. They’re coming from people googling [...]

See my Herald column over here.
It’s funny how words rile. I had a lot of feedback on my “words that make me gag” column last week.
People wrote in with way more than I had room to mention.
And they weren’t all just words. Excessive use of exclamation marks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Admittedly, it bugs me too. IT’S LIKE [...]

A couple of weeks ago, GT went through a bit of a make-over. Some might have said an identity crisis.
At the end of the day, I installed a theme-switcher to allow you to choose which look you like. The themes appear at the top of the page in the sidebar, either on the left or [...]

This theme is Working Girl.
It could also be called Working Typist.
I have to admit that it does represent a certain typist of your acquaintance crunched over sitting up straight at a keyboard all day long. (Only my desk is not so neat).
A certain 11-year old daughter has been over my shoulder this week offering unvarnished [...]

Update: Yup, you’re right about the comments. I’ve darkened them and made them larger. Check it out. I’ve also increased the size of the font in the posts. This theme isn’t widgetized, meaning I have to go into the code to make changes in the sidebars.
This “What Not To Wear” blog styling exercise will not [...]

This one is called McMac. It’s a Wordpress theme designed by the very talented Milo, who designed the “Summer” theme I had up on Monday.
The messiness could be distracting, but I must say, it does represent the state of my desk on most days. You find the strangest things on my desk, and my office [...]

So. I’ve heard you. Yesterday’s theme wasn’t doing it for you.
You said no personality. Corporate. Boring. Blah.
I wonder what Simon and Paula would have said.
So, here’s Monday’s theme. It’s call Summer. And appropriately it’s sunny outside my window this morning.
I’ve flirted with this one before. I’m going to make a few small changes to the [...]

Update: I’ve been playing around with the CSS code and have done the following

put colour in the header
changed font from stark arial to a more laid-back verdana
reduced most of header fonts to lower case (because I don’t like to yell)
reduced the size of the fonts

I have a graphic of an old fashioned typewriter for the [...]

That if you get your snow tires taken off on April 23rd, there will be snow in the forecast on April 24th.
Sorry I forget the physics genius who worked out the Law of Springtime Road Rubber Change and Frozen Precipitation.
But I do know that it is a cause-and-effect action.
Change tires = snow.
I awoke this morning [...]

Just getting caught up with my Non-Blog Life (NBL). You know: work, laundry, cat surgery.
She’s in theatre as I write. She’s having three rotten teeth out. It’s a good thing we took the holiday before this bill comes in. It’s going to be a whopper. I’ll blog later this week on the morality of [...]

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Have a visit.
And if there’s somewhere else I should be visiting, let me know.

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