Hummdinger

It’s about freakin’ time.

The Hummingbird has finally gotten down from all up in Aurora in order to join in on the blogging fun. Let it also be known that, if we can remember what her bird name is, she can join the blog too. As long as she stops trying to stare me down; I still have nightmares.

Private dancer

As I may have mentioned before, in my after-school special on “playing safe,” there are people other than us who read our blog. Why? I have no clue. Perhaps they are also birds. Perhaps they are underemployed. Perhaps they’re a little bit crazy. Either way, there is definitely a significant non-bird viewship. To point:

Look at that spike on the 8th! Who the heck were all those people? The wild and mysterious citizens of the interwebs. What did they come to the Bag of Birds looking for? Well, I think this speaks for itself:

That’s right: Labia. Possibly freaky labia. Just the kind of people we want lurking around, peering through our (beef) curtains.

So welcome, non-bird friends. Hopefully you will find the labia you seek, or simply a random way to while away your (possibly) crazy days.

Playing safe

C’caw!
I’m so verbose this afternoon I can barely stand it.

I was just having a (real) MSN convo with the Blackbird about blogging safety, and the following this occurred to us that might be helpful to pass along.

In our posts, we should avoid mentioning:

• Our names
• Places we work
• Other personal identifying things that could come back to bite us in the ass

I don’t want to make this less fun, but in this modern day and age you never know who’s reading/watching. For example: On February 8th our blog had 71 hits. Who were the 68 other people who read it? Who knows!

Concerned with your health and wellbeing, as always.

Clear direction

C’caw!

My most darling O.skillet, I have no idea why you can’t quite get the image uploader thing to work. It took me a while to figure out that the “send to editor” button is what inserts it into the blog post (where your cursor is), and does not in fact allow you to edit the photo. So confusing.

The other thing that may help is making sure you set the alignment, by clicking on the picture and then pressing the little button at the top that looks like a tree. I always set it to “absolute middle” and it works out OK. Even though sometimes we need to take a stand and not be in the middle. But I digress.

In other news, the Great African Nuthatch has joined the blog!
At the moment she is far too busy (bein’ delicious/important/gettin’ booty) to post, but she has shared this link with me, which I will try and share with you (first time posting a YouTube):

UPDATE: It only took me 2 tries to get it. 

Tag that

You may have noticed the “Tag Cloud” living down the right-hand side of the blog. Somewhere between recent posts and the blogroll.

When you compose a Bird Blog post, you can add tags. Tags are usually keywords on the subject(s) of your post. You can add as many tags as you want. When you publish your post, they are added to the “cloud.”

The more times a tag is used, the bigger it gets in the cloud. For example, “Submit!” is pretty damn big. That’s because I’m a bossy bastard.

So don’t forget to add your own tags, or use ones we’ve started, so that the Tag Cloud can grow and prosper like a bird in a barrel of booze.

Sandy SUBMITS!

Despite the fact that some of you refuse to SUBMIT to the bird blog, others are literally flocking to what will be the biggest procrastination tool since Facebook.

A warm and fondling welcome is extended to the one and only Sandy Marbles (aka Dusty Pebbles), bringing us her sweet sweets songs from the West coast.

The submission has begun

C’caw!

I’d like to extend a warm Bag-o-Birds welcome to the dovely Dove, who has wisely chosen to SUBMIT to the blog!

As she and I discussed last night, this whole blog idea is very similar to Facebook, with the important distinction that it allows me to continue my Facebook boycott. And still talk to you guys, You guys rock, too. You rock as much as Facebook sucks.

xo

-s-

C’comments

C’caw yet again.

As far as I can tell, you should be logged in to comment. If not, then I get an Email and have to go in to “approve” your comment before it will appear. Obviously, this will be a bit of a pain in my ass.

So try leaving a comment when you are logged in, and hopefully it will just post without my swallowy blessing.

UPDATE: Apparently, I have to “approve” you the first time, and then after that (as long as you are logged in) you will be able to comment at will, pecking apart whatever is posted. Man, this is hard stuff. You’d think if some tool like Perez Hilton could figure it out then anyone could do it. Apparently not.

C’caw!

OK my Birds, here’s the deal:

You go to www.wordpress.com and you sign up (FREE!) with a user ID. When they ask you if you want a blog, say “No thanks, just the ID.”

Of course, it will work out the best if you pick your bird as your user ID. If your bird is already taken, don’t fret: Once you have a user ID, you can set your public nickname to whatever you want.

Then, when you have your ID, Email it to me along with the Email address you used to register, and I can add you to this blog as an author!

Then you can log in wherever you are, and this blog can become the new GMSN, complete with photos and commenting to each others’ posts and whatnot!! We can upload photos and all kinds of crazy fun stuff.

Doesn’t that sound like a nerd-tastic good time? Please say that it does!

I’ll be awaiting your Emails!

PS: If you are using a Mac, be sure to use the FireFox browser when using WordPress. Safari is buggy and gave me no end of trouble. If you are using Windows, I don’t know what you should use, so go to the store, buy a Mac, and then use FireFox.