I received a jolly Christmas Card from Colin. He sent it to the list of blogging friends below, accompanied with some linklove and with the rel="dofollow" tag set with each link. Thanks, Colin!
This is Colins Christmas message, that I am gladly repeating here. I am joining Colin in these words: "The world of blogging is exceeding itself with bloggers from many continents making the blogosphere a wonderful example of unity, peace and love. In the spirit of this Season of Goodwill I would like to pass this Christmas Card on to the following friends, old and new alike. Thank you all for your support, comments and participation within the blogosphere. YOU are the people who make it what it is…a growing Global Community. Hugs and Love to ALL of you, you are awesome."
0-Cotojo 1-Lisa , 2-Kim, 3-Deborah, 4-Pearl, 5-Sandy, 6-Jesse, 7-Chris, 8-Zubli Zainordin, 9-Santa, 10-Blog Elf, 11-Jackie, 12-Marzie, 13-Adrian, 14-Jos, 15-NAFA SG, 16-Paula, 17-Sue, 18-Kathy 19-Maartje, 20-Morgan, 21-Greg, 22-MaryAnn, 23-Eric, 24-Hawk, 25-Carol, 26-Diane, 27-Ev Nucci, 28-Surjit, 29-Kuanyin, 30-Christy Z, 31-Sandee, 32-Robin, 33-Hanna, 34-Maunie, 35-Kim, 36-Bobby, 37-Billy, 38-David, 39-Jennifer, 40-Aryst, 41-Winston, 42-Christy, 43-LilyRuth, 44-Jess, 45-Rudy, 46-Lynda, 47-Lili, 48-Sandy G, 49-Ange, 50-BlackWyrm, 51-Vincent, 52-Colin & Anne, 53-Blandly Urbane, 54-Marco, 55-Mihaela Lica, 56-John C, 57-Aziz-sm, 58-Ugyen, 59-Lansy, 60-Alex Badalic, 61-Victors, 62-Nostalgia Manila, 63-Franco Yong, 64-Herby, 65-Rubie, 66-Santaram & BVK, 67-Jean-david, 68-Namgay, 69-Catherine, 70-Yunita P, 71-PJ Lighthouse, 72-Lorimer Black, 73-Dream Catcher, 74-Fred Plimley, 75-Anja Merret, 76-Maria Lourdes, 77-Jon B, 78-Aayush, 79-Denise, 80-Dharmendra P, 81-Brent D, 82-Jerry & Daryl McCoy, 83-Brian B, 84-Calvin Innes, 85-Pieter Marburn, 86-Jessica Field, 87-Taflas, 88-Alex Sysoef, 89-Norie, 90-Justin Stanley, 91-Ashish, 92-David Ledoux, 93-Thanate Tan, 94-Kevin, 95-Etienne, 96-Gerbera, 97-Christina, 98-Abhishek d, 99-Uprai, 100-Texas_Jam, 101-Azmiel, 102-Daniel, 103-Kristin B, 104-Luwis, 105-Adavait, 106-Now Sourcing, 107-Buen Amigo, 108-Kiran Pande, 109-Peterson Wong, 110-Lynn, 111-Chessnoid, 112-Luis Hipolito, 113-Joliveira, 114-Jennifer & Pete, 115-Team Dog, 116-Megan, 117-Mark, 118-Raivyn, 119-Mel, 120-Andrea, 121-Jen / domestika, 122-Mimi, 123-Bobo, 124-Lynda Lehmann, 125-Dread Bob, 126-Julie, 127-RennyBA, 128-Bobbarama, 129-Becky, 130-Magdalena, 131-Michelle, 132-Stacie, 133-Climate of Our Future Team, 134-CashMarble, 135-OilOffShoreMarine, 136-Jos Additional BlogLove, 137-Piper, 138-Barbara, 139-Ann, 140-Deb, 141-madang.com, 142-RamblingMoo.com, 143-blogginginmypyjamas, 144-StylewithPassion, 145-Chinneeq, 146-Dora-zooropazoo, 147-Babyshern, 148-HiPnCooLMoMMa 149-Rachel’s Soulful Thoughts 150-When Silence Speaks, 151-Dancing in Midlife Tune, 152-Underneath it All, 153- I am Dzoi, 154-Hobbies and Such, 155-moms…..check nyo, 156-Choc Mint Girl, 157-Amel’s Realm, 158- My Thoughts, 159-Rusin Roundup, 160-Juliana’s Site, 161-Max, 162-Rooms of My Heart, 163-A Great Pleasure, 164-LadyJava’s Lounge, 165-Jesie, 166-Steven, 167-Trinity, 168-Leena, 169-Nick, 170-Nessa, 171-Debbie Dolphin, 172- Anna t, 173-krrey_boo, 174-Logic, 175-Steve Ho, 176-Virtual Entrepreneur, 177-WalksFarWoman, 178-Anna, Beth & Cory’s Mom, 179-Toon, 180-Belinda 181-EPSpeaks, 182-Colorado Baby, 183-jafajfer, 184-pmonchet, 185-Aslan, 186-arouetvoltaire , 187-Tanny, 188-Il vaso di Pandora, 189-Non Lineare, 190-Omniamundamundis, 191-LineaNeuronica, 192-Semplicemente Lisa 193-la penna che graffia 194-Angelbaby, 195-Divya, 196-Cyn, 197-Donna, 198-Liudmila, 199-djeblog, 200-Gracie Belle, 201-Reverend Ray, 202-Walter Winstuff, 203-Denny, 204-Terry (mee mOe), 205-awannabe, 206-Z.S., 207-Il Gnagnera, 208-Kevin Grieves, 209-DatCurious, 210-DatMoney, 211-Sanni, 212-Rolando’s Quiet Space
23 Comments:
now why didn't I think of putting the links in a scroll box....too clever Mr Jos !!!!!
thanks for the Christmas Cheer :)
Thanks for the Christmas Cheer and link love. Could you send me the html-script for the scroll box?
RennyBA's Terella
hey!
I'm indirection from italy!
bacibaci!
txs for link love!
have You a great Christmas!
Thanks Ms/Mrs Kim! You're welcome
-Jos:)
Hello RennyBA,
You're welcome!
See my post about the scrollbox.
-Jos
Hey Hanna, thank you for your best wishes! Have a wonderful Christmas, too!
-Jos
Thanks and Merry Christmas. Now i have to learn how to put scroll box.
Hi Jos,
I tried a link box but for some reason it also hyperlinked back to my blog lol, I'll have to work on it when I have a bit more time :)
Catch you later buffy, take care and have a great week.
Colin
hahaha, supposed to be buddy...typo days are here again....I love it lol
Hello Mon, thank you. And don't worry, it is not all that difficult ;)
-Jos
Colin, hahahahha, that would make a good team, wouldn't it? "Eeeeeek the ghost" and "the vampire slayer".. LOl!
I too love the linky box. How'd you do that? I'm always asking you that question aren't I? Have a great day Jos. :)
Hi Sandee, the post above this one explains how to do that with the predefined scrolbox; I'll put the link on your MBL page :)
-Jos:)
thanks for the link Jos ..
wishing you a wonderful Christmas and a very happy New Year! :)
http://fresh-perspectives.net
you are welcome, Tyropearl. Wishing you the same :)
-Jos
Speaking of clicks to get here with some DirectOn from Kim, we can advertise the F-U Technorati-Index as the Freed-Union Technorati-Index to spoof their double entendre of the Technorati WTF.
Does anyone take any of the Online rating services seriously?
Perhaps, the best way to stumble upon a blog is by direct comment redirection?
For a little Holiday Humor, thank you for the Christmas (Link) Love to my deceased blog! No doubt, Google has a PR (present ration) stuffed in your stocking for next year!
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Hi Debbie,
Have you tried this: If you 'delegate' your wp-url to your OpenID, blogger will accept that in the pul down option "Any OpenID". That way, you might be able to comment on Blogger/Blogspot blogs using your OpenID with a direct hyperlink to your blogs url as your commentors name. Maybe my post about delegating might help? I am not sure that this will work, but maybe it's worth the try?
As for my upcoming Present Ration: I have updated the Colin-Extra Christmas (Link)Love List with your new url, so I'm safe now?
Thanks for stopping by - I love the connection you made between my proposed F-U Technorati Index and their WTF! Lol!
-Jos
Hi Jos,
Tis the season of some cool comical comments!
Your Link Surprise is safe with me! Hopefully, Google's irrelevant Present Ration (PR) will not affect us? :)
Thank you for the OpenID tip and your welcome (Ref: Thanks for stopping by). In the future, don't be too surprised if you see me surfing into your Blogging harbor!
With the stress of holiday preparations, setting up a new blog, etc., there has been no time to check if OpenID delegation works for WordPress . Apparently, I need to upload a OpenID Delegate WordPress Plugin, activate the Plugin and enter a OpenID Server Url, OpenID Delegate Server URL, and XRDS Url.
For now, signing into Blogger and adding the correct signature link seems easier than dealing with another OpenID migraine mess again (first fixed my Blogger Blog only to discover WordPress OpenID is not 100% compatible with Blogger).
Happy Holidays,
Debbie
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Hi Debbie,
The Plugin thing... ermm... that's why I am not so much impressed with WordPress myself. I have a (backup) blog on free hosted WordPress, one blog on a (paid) OEM-version of TypePad/SixApart and a few blogs on free Blogger. If I compare the WP with what free Blogger offers (and I think it is only fair to compare a free gift with another free gift), to me WP looks rather inflexible.
In the free WP blog, I cannot simply and quickly add a few lines of Javascript or HTML and -hey presto- create a sidebar widget, for example. And, heck, I cannot even modify the template!
It's a pity that Blogger/Blogspot aren't offering a paid upgrade version that would offer a/o the other benefits of WP, such as decent support, backup facilities, a decent and flexible commenting system, more flexibility with sizing and editing images, more flexibility when self-hosting the blog, and some cures against your listed migraine issues.
Anyway, in an ideal world, etc.
Thanks for sailing by again, and good luck with your preparations.
I have added lighthousestars to my Personal Favorites blogroll page, and, the quick judge of character that I am, I have added you to the list of recipients of the NoDirectOn (not: NoDirection) Cool and Crazy award label.
Happy Holidays!
Hi Jos,
In the category of fairly comparing free gifts, you are right, free Blogger wins hands down over free WordPress.com. Unfortunately, WordPress.org or WordPress.net does not allow Blogger posts to be directly imported to a self-hosted WordPress Blog.
To get beyond that minor irritation, a inflexible WordPress.com Blog was created to automatically import Blogger Posts which can be exported to the final WordPress.net Blog. Another unexpected hoop to jump through in order to regain HTML flexibility.
WP Plugins are another strange Blogging pill to cure some WordPress ills! For example, there is a Permalinks Plugin that helps with the redirection of Blogger Post Links. Yet, one line of code can be added to the Permalinks option in the WordPress Dashboard.
Although I am no WordPress Plugin expert, seems like Plugins were designed to add functions to a WP template bypassing the need to learn and/or change the HTML and/or PHP code. Perhaps, in a ideal world Plugins might be completely trusted? Like Widgets, the Less Plugins is More! Javascript Widgets slow down the loading of any blog or web page and hopefully, most people who visit blogs are reading our content only. After reviewing the load time of Blogger Widgets, all widgets were removed because a Blog with 8 widgets loads about 8 times slower than a Blog with no Widgets!
"It's a pity that Blogger/Blogspot aren't offering a paid upgrade version..." Amen!!! If Google offered these WP benefits, former Google Bloggers may never have dived off the Blogger Boat!
In my humble opinion, the best features of both Blogging Platforms should be combined instead of the current digital religious war of Blogger versus WordPress!
Speaking of Blogging issues, both WordPress and Blogspot Themes written by other authors can be a Bloggers nightmare searching for the code needed to be changed in order to personalize the author's Theme to their Blog Theme. Theme authors could very easily identify which code parts are associated with the Blog layout.
The Header image for this blog is a good example: changing the CSS file did not work to set the top margin of the image. The Header image was also located in the Header.php file and changing that file did not help either. My final solution was to add the top margin to the image file which cropped the bottom of the Lighthouse slightly.
Believe it or not, your Cool and Crazy award has left me without a prepared long acceptance speech! No doubt, the Blogging Academy Awards is ecstatic to hear me say this? I am honored to receive this cool award from a Brilliant Blogger!
Thank you for your holiday gifts, Jos!
I placed your present under my Comic Comfort Blogroll tree
and Google can't take it away from me!
Happy Holidays!
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Hi Debbie, I have just made a strong product development plea over at Laketrees, to not only introduce this new F-U Technorati Index (of which you can fruitfully be the CEO), but also use this new company of ours to introduce lots of other new and exciting stuff. One of the things I would like to see come to market soon is a new blogging software platform called NoMigraine...
And sjees are you right about those widgets - if it's not that they take ages to load, it's that they just sit and wait, playing a game of solitary, until all other links on a page to have loaded - an lucky you if one of them is bumpzee in maintenance, or Technorati gone borking again..
Hi Jos,
Perfect Timing... with my comical comment recently posted at Laketress:
I Love the NoMigraine Blog idea, Jos!
And, your Christmas Comedy of renaming all these bogus Blogging tracking systems is hilarious and priceless!
Looks like Technorati creates new digital Black Holes at the speed of Light, Kim!
Maybe, Captain Kirk can be digitally restored to command the Blogger Enterprise to boldly go where no Blogger has gone before? To achieve this virtual reality, does someone have any idea on how we can pull Denny Crane out of Alan Shore's bed on Boston Legal???
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The widget code most likely loads quick yet, as you astutely noted, the migraine hammer on the head is polling the external services like Technorati or Google AdSense, etc. can take forever, at times.
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OK! This is a first: I am loudly and literally ROTF!
Beam me up, please...
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