Well, That Didn’t Go Well

I was able to recover a Miser Project post to this blog using the original post date.

1. I couldn’t just use the draft in Open LiveWriter that I used for the original post.  It just wouldn’t go. [2019-11-07T10:24 I have workarounds now.  Not entirely satisfying but good enough for casual blogging.]
2. So I used the web-page creator for Blogger posts, with copy and paste of the original text, and reloading of the screen capture I used for the WordPress image.
   [2019-11-07T10:23 Once I get a post into Blogger, I can retrieve and update it using Live Writer though.]
3. [2019-11-07T10:22 I have enough work-arounds for this, but the layout is not pleasing, especially when the sidebar becomes long enough to overlap images in the body text.]
4. Unfortunately, the problem between LiveWriter and Blogger is that it doesn’t allow custom image scaling.  I had to use the largest size it does support that would not blow out of the page.  That’s not very readable on-line.  I also can’t make an image link to the original file so someone could get a direct view of that PNG image.
   [2019-10-30T12:28 OK, OK, I found the workaround for this.]
5. I also included the wrong PNG image.  I will see if I can repair that.  Unfortunately, Blogger apparently doesn’t allow editing of existing pages (or I can’t find it).
   [2019-10-30T12:29 I found the edit-post link.  Just above where comments appear.  Sheesh.]

Tasks

• Replace that post on Blogger with one having the correct image.
  [2019-10-30T12:26 Well, I learned how to edit a post and to redo the image.  I also learned that Blogger makes the image clickable to provide a right-sized view.  I made the image "original" size anyhow, before I discovered that.]
• Create a Miser category and see if that is useful.
  [2019-10-30T12:33 I forgot they are called "labels" and I started using "Miser Project" for that sequence of posts.]
• Think about what it takes to use GitHub as a blog host.  It means I need a Markdown-oriented blog creation procedure, but maybe that’s necessary after all. [2019-11-07T10:20 and I am still stuck about this.   The Blogger image-handling is becoming an annoyance.]

Preparing to Prepare

I also want to deal with some matters of layout and organization.  My job jar at the moment.

• Complete my profile
• Recover previous Orcmid’s Lair and Orcmid’s Live Hideout archives as historical archive preceding the one now arising.
• Figure out whether categories provide a means of segregation rather than the previous use of multiple blogs.  Or have multiple blogs.
• It would be great to have MathJax or some other way to incorporate [La]TeX formulas.
• It would also be great to use Discus for comments and not be tied to whatever Google provides via Blogger.
• In moving Miser Project posts from Orcmid’s Live Hideout, there will be embedded hyperlinks that cross reference among them.  This will be restitched to the versions here as progress is made (fingers crossed).
• Add pages about stuff, as I was attempting with the Hexo Landscape work at Spanner Wingnut’s.  Umm, not certain why I am not doing something like that here on Blogger.  Heh.

First things Firster

While there is much to do (including settling in on a name and categories for this blog and templating more features), an important factor here is using Open Live Writer to recover important-to-me posts from other blogs.  Ideally, I can place them here under the original post dates.  We’ll see. 

Once More Unto the Breach

On Monday, October 28, 2002, 17 years ago, almost to the day, I put my first-ever blog posts up on Blogger as it then was.  And it was on a Monday, just like October 28, 2019.

I have come full circle. I am unclear how that came to be. It has something to do with laziness and certain weariness of fussing with installing, configuring, and maintaining blog-publishing engines.

So here I am, back to basics, making an effort to unleash my needs for blog publishing.