Scary Yankee Chick

Despite being told that it wasn’t possible…..I’m to stubborn for my own good, what can I say.

If you look right above these posts, you’ll see the different “pages” that I’ve put up, including About Me…..the latest one is RSS Feed……yup. I figured out how to put my blogroll into an RSS feed on an individual page. Despite not knowing a single bit of PHP (I DO understand HTML and CSS, which helped immensely).  Its not DONE, I have to code for each blog individually and I’m taking a break from staring at the computer screen.  But it turned out to not even be THAT hard!

I will in the near future put up a post explaining HOW I did it in case someone else wants to do so.

Mostly because once I got it home I couldn’t stand to wait to give it to him.  Oh well.

Pictures:

Oleg Volk does a much better job, he featured similer knives from the same guy a while back.

For anyone interested this guy does a very nice job, very quickly, and for a very reasonable price.  I’ll be buying more from him.

I consider myself to be reasonably knowledgeable about computers and the Internet, but everytime I let my head get to big I get reminded of how little I know. I’m having to relearn lotsa HTML and CSS, and staring cross-eyed at the PHP right at the moment…..

(note, this is completely by choice because I’m not satisfied with any of the options available to me for what I want to do so I’m trying to create my own…..)

Repost of various pictures from various posts that didn’t transfer over, below the fold for the sake of those with slow systems.

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A while back I picked up this fish shaped chew toy for Apollo.  Made out of clear rubber/plastic, with a purple “skeleton” inside.  It was getting pretty beat up, but he still loves it, and now with Arty in the house its getting even more abuse, so I decided to see if I could get another one.  Well the store where I got it still had them, along with two other sizes, the smallest was to small, Apollo coulda swollowed it whole, and the purple one I got before was the largest, but they also had a medium size, so I grabbed two large ones and a medium one.  Click the link to see what they look like (disclaimer, the links to go Amazon via my Affiliates link, if you buy something via that link I earn a couple pennies).  That was yesterday.

Here’s what the medium fish looks like today:

Don’t worry, they didn’t actually eat any of it, I’ve spent the day picking up pieces of plastic off my floor….

Still some quirks to fix, font size for one, god thats small, and it looks like most of the pictures didn’t come over (arg).  I’ll repost the ones that I care about, oh well.

and why is this post not on top??hhhhmmmmm

For anyone who’s curious its here: http://www.scaryyankeechick.com/

Now, that LINK will remain active, but the look and feel and all else is not set in stone yet.  I will say that I like the WordPress.org options MUCH better than the WordPress.com options.  Nor am I officially changing over yet, this is just me playing around and wanting some feedback.

As for the host, its machighway.com, recommended to me by Hsoi, who uses it for his business site.  I’ve not had much time to poke around at what all I can do with their stuff yet, but I’ve so far had to contact them twice, mostly because I was feeling lazy and didn’t feel like digging.  Both times I was helped promptly and politely.  Infact the guy who answered the phone the first time even admitted that “I don’t know, but if you don’t mind me placing you on hold for a minute or two I can find out.”  Something that is few and far between in some companies (I like a person who admits they don’t know but is willing to find out, don’t BS at me).  I will also say that their Blog Package is very inexpensive ($29.50/yr if you pay for the year upfront, and for your first year that includes your Domain name, which is normally an additional $9.99), MUCH less so for the same coverage than several other hosting places I looked at.  And yes, you can use their site even if you don’t use a Mac, I don’t! 

(if you go to my link above on the left hand side of the page is a little button to them, if you decide to go with MacHighway, and it was my experience that got you to look at them, please consider purchasing your site via that button, it’ll earn me a bit of money to off-set what this is costing me since I don’t make anything off the blog.  As a general rule I don’t plan to do much in the way of advertising and the like, just this button, Amazon affiliates, and maybe some odds and ends)