JabberWocky!

I saw an article on the news a few days ago about a zoo located in Gaza City. I was sitting on one side of the room working on the computer and looked over my shoulder to see that the zoo had gotten two new zebras and the children were having a fun time looking at them.

It wasn’t until I actually started listening to the words that I realized that these zebras were not zebras at all but they were in fact donkeys that had been painted by a professional painter made to Look like zebras!

Now I do not know if the children that were viewing them Knew they were zebra donkeys or not but from across the room, Until I actually listened and heard they were Not zebras, they looked pretty convincing to Me and I have seen a few real zebras in my day!

It was very ingenious if you think about it, but in fact the story behind it was a sad one!

It seems that they the zoo did in fact have two zebras in the zoo until they were neglected and died of hunger earlier this year during the Hamas War in Gaza City. When the zookeepers tried to replace the zebras they found that it was just too expensive and came up with the idea that if they bought two cheaper donkeys instead, they could be made to Look like zebras!

I suppose sometimes you just have to make do with what you have!

The zoo also has a few other animals by the way, an aging tigress, a camel and a few monkeys, birds, rabbits and cats. Not quite the type of zoo that I have ever seen, but the children seemed to be happy with what they had.

Donkey Zebras

That’s all for me today and I hope to see you all back again soon for some more good old fashioned…

As everyone is quite aware of that knows me personally and professionally, you know that I am more than a little remiss in the last few months about my favorite Jabberwocky!…but sometimes I get Extremely Lucky and happen upon something or someone that I think is extremely note worthy and it takes me No Time At All to bring it to everyone’s attention!

Such is the case today! “Wreck” is a friend of mine. “Wreckfish”, is what she is more commonly known by, and I have to say that I have had the privilege to know her for right around 4 months…give or take a day or two!

Through the last four months we have gotten to know each other quite well and oddly enough we are quite the same…although we could not be more different!

We seem to understand each other in some strange, weird way! To her…I am a somewhat odd character and recently she told me that as far as me being crazy…the jury is still out on that one and to me, she is much the same…an odd character that somehow I can relate to!!!

Be that as it May!!! Wreck and I both have our own things that make us tick and for Wreck it is Photography! I have seen Many of her photographs in the past few months and I have to say I think she is more than excellent at what she does!!

Wreck hails from South Africa, so most of her photographs hail from there also. She is not a “still life” photographer but rather a “life artist”.

She has photos of everything from a South African Gentleman carrying an umbrella to being in a helicopter looking down at the dolphins in the ocean.

About the best thing I can say about “Wreck” is…she is real…not only in her life and how she lives but in her photographs.

This is why I have added her to my blogroll, so you can not only get to know the woman but the photographs as well!

For those of you that know me…take my word for it…HDW, Matt, Mark, Plank, Krista, Jan and S.D. from the U.K. grab this link as it is going to be Well Worth Your While!!!

For everyone else…don’t miss this link either, but if you do…Wreckfish is going to be around on this blogroll so you can always pick it up here!

This one’s for you Wreck…You definitely deserve it!!

Wreckfish…The Ninja Worrier

That’s all for me today guys!! Hope to see you back again soon for more…

It is certainly lonely and quiet around here with Uni away for the holidays visiting family and friends…it’s amazing how much work I can get done when He’s not around!! But I miss Him terribly and am looking forward to him coming home after the New Year!

And speaking of the New Year, the mandate of the TechRepublic Microsoft Windows blog is to provide information regarding both Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista, and the plans Microsoft has for their operating systems.

According to them these are the top five Windows blog posts of 2008.

• Adjust these performance options to speed up Windows XP
• Change the product key on Windows XP
• How do I…Use BootVis to improve XP boot performance
• Creating a Windows Vista Recovery CD
• Reset lost Windows passwords with Offline Registry Editor

That’s about all for me today but I’ll see you back here again soon for some more good old fashioned…

I recently downloaded and installed the new improved WordPress 2.7 and in 3 little words:

I Love It!

The Dashboard is to die for, everything is handy where it is easily accessible with a choice of grey or blue skin.

I like the fact that now you can make a quick post if you’re running short on time and don’t want to go all the way to the normal editor and that you have the freedom to customize the dashboard any way that suits your needs.

All of the modules have the drag and drop option so you can move the modules around any way that suits you and some also have an open and close option so that you can see everything on offer or collapse them up for a cleaner more minimal look.

You can change the settings from the main dashboard and display what is important to you or hide them if they’re not important to you at the time.

You can adjust the size of your editor, there are also keyboard shortcuts for comments moderation and if you double click on a comment in the Comments view it opens up in the editor.

From the dashboard you can see if you have any drafts that you’ve made and maybe forgotten, any incoming links, all of your posts from this week, last week and a while ago and what’s hot on WordPress.

Having said all of this with all of it’s great new features I do have One Tiny complaint. (Well, not so tiny to me)!!

If you have a blog that is hosted by WordPress.com then on your dashboard already included in the 2.7 is all of your stats from all of your blogs but not if you are hosting your own blog, and this was so important to me…in fact it was one of the main reasons that I upgraded from 2.6. To be able to see my stats when I logged in and see who was reading what.

For those of you that know me know I am definitely no computer genius and I have a way of always messing things up on my computer so I only upgrade when it is really something that I want terribly!

I knew about the stats because I have another blog hosted by WordPress and of course the day the upgrade came out I was using it on that blog but it seems that no matter how hard I tried I can not get the stats plugin here on JabberWocky! to work.

So to WordPress 2.7, I give it an 8…would have definitely been a 10 if I had been able to get the stats plugin to work!

By the way…if anyone out there knows possibly what I’m doing wrong or does know how to get the stats plugin to work then please leave me a comment and tell me…I would truly appreciate it!

Well, that’s it for me today and this week, I hope you have a great week-end and hope to see you back here again soon for some more…

Thank Goodness!!!

I am proud to announce that Uni and & didn’t make this list, not yet at least…I don’t know, give it a while and we just may!

Top 11 Lamest Blogs

Just a shortie today but hope to see you back again soon for some more…

that I did something this morning that I Never thought I would do! (Keep it clean boys)!!

I actually Deleted one of my posts here at JabberWocky!!

I always swore that when I worked so hard writing a post that I would never delete it because I always think long and hard Before writing a post and when I do I always try to make it the best that I think I can do!

I try to be as informative, educating, entertaining or whatever else I set out to do as I can when I begin writing and I feel that it is a total waste of my time if I write something only to go back later and spend yet more time deleting it, but in this case I don’t think I had much choice!

The post has cost me More time in deleting Spam comments coming from Russia than I ever spent writing it! And the stupid part about it is, as I posted a couple of posts before, it is always the same people making comments that have nothing to do with the subject. I suppose they can’t read or something and obviously they are posting comments so that their Websites will get clicked on!

One would think that after I removed all of the clickable links on the comments that I could salvage and then to have the rest of their comments never show up because I marked them as “spam” and they were deleted that they would simply stop wasting their time and mine!

I suppose they must have a robot or something doing their posting but actually 99% of the comments make sense they just don’t pertain to the subject and when you post a comment to me 15 or 20 times that does not pertain to the subject from the same IP address, and we are not bantering back and forth, I Am going to mark your comments “spam” Every Time”.

So Hey, FYI! I’m not going anywhere and I have to be on this site every day so what’s a couple more seconds for me to have the joy of stopping you in your tracks for trying to spam me!

Well anyway, that’s the state of things around here, and to my friends that I have been discussing this problem with…Thanks for listening and most of all thanks for making me laugh when you make light of the situation! I’ve really enjoyed our fun!

That’s all for me ranting today! Hope to see you back again soon for some more good old fashioned…

My Handsome and Oh So Evil friend Abbadon over at KOHD, a private blog, read my post on Spam yesterday and left me a comment in the form of a video with the word, Bwahahahahahaha!, that I thought I simply must share with you!

Mind you he does have a very unusual sense of humor to say the least! But that’s my Abbadon!

Spam spam spam spam

Thanks Abbadon…from your Witch of Eastwick!!!

That’s all for me today, hope to see you back again soon for some more…

Recently the stats on my blog have been going up each day on one particular post, (believe me when I tell you it was definitely Not my best post!), and on that post I have been getting at least one comment each day that I have to moderate. While I love for people to read my blog and comment on it’s contents these comments have been getting ridiculous and are obviously SPAM!!

These comments are coming from Russia and the first couple of days they were approved because the comments had merit and the Websites that these people had looked ok to me, (not full of ads to click on and make money…even though my Russian is sadly lacking what it use to be these days), but I have had to start deleting or marking these comments as spam recently as many of them, still on the same post, continuously come back and make generally the same comments now, something to the effect of “good” or “good blog” or “good work”, each time with a different name and Website but with the Same IP address.

Those of you that have been around here since the beginning KNOW FULL WELL how I feel about my blog/blogs being SPAMED as I wrote a very lengthy post about it quite some time ago.

So in closing this post, which I Really did not want to write…

Let it be know to everyone if I continuously receive comments on my posts, especially the same posts, with the exact same comment coming from the exact same IP address these comments will be purged and marked as spam from now on.

I hate to have to do this as I am generally a nice guy gal but I do so hate being taken advantage of!

That’s all for me today, hope to see you back again Reading AND Commenting, (Not Spamming me), soon here at…

This post is for anyone in the world that has not heard of Yuwie yet…and I doubt that anyone out there on the Internet hasn’t heard of Yuwie, but in case you haven’t, here goes!

Yuwie is relatively new but hitting the Internet by storm. It is like a continuous social networking party to the masses much like MySpace only with a twist. It is also the first social networking Website that pays it’s users to do what they are already doing! Anytime anyone views your profile, blog, photos, rates you, or joins under you then you get paid.

Now of course I personally don’t think that anyone is going to make a killing by being a member of Yuwie, although many claim that they receive a decent amount each month, but if you are into social networking or you have valuable information that you want to get out on the Web Without paying for it, then this just may be the place for you.

Yuwie also offers everything that all of the other social networking Websites offer you, such as customized profiles, blogs, photos, videos, clubs, friends, referrals, (you also make money off of your referrals activity too), and more.

If you haven’t already joined Yuwie then here’s your chance or if you don’t know what I am talking about and just want to check it out to see if it may be something you’re interested in then go to:

Yuwie; Paid Social Networking

That’s all for today folks but I’ll see you back again tomorrow for more…

I don’t know about you, but for me as a blogger one of the most important things that I can have is my blog backed up..I am really paranoid, I have many blogs and I am terrified that all of my hard work on research, posting and presenting it to all of you is going to be lost due to some kind of horrible freak of nature!

Now I know that this sounds extreme but I feel very strongly about it as you can tell! For all of my friends out there that have been around JabberWocky! or any of my other blogs for a while, you know that a computer genius I am not!

I wouldn’t know how to back up my blog manually if the house was on fire! And from what I can conclude from articles that I have read it is not all that easy especially for a novice like me. In fact, I hear tell, that it can actually be quite complicated and tedious.

But approximately a year ago I came across this site called BlogBackupOnline that was in Beta at the time.

I read how it was as simple as signing up, registering the blog you want backed up and that was it! Your blogs were automatically backed up every day, and since this was all done online there was no software or programming required! Which obviously is my type of service!

Needless to say, this was like a miracle to me and for the last year I have never once worried about loosing one of my blogs. I know that I can do my research, post and present it to you and if something horrible should happen today that my blogs are safe and will still be there tomorrow.

Another great thing about this service was that it was free while they were in Beta and each account was allocated 5mb of storage space, (they researched this extensively and have found out that 5mb is quite sufficient for most blogs).

Well, I am happy to report that next week, BlogBackupOnline is moving out of Beta. They responded to feedback from the people like me that were giving it a try, they implemented improvements to the service and now it has finally paid off for them!

Good news is, since they are moving out of Beta they will continue to provide a “FREEMIUM” version so that every blogger can continue to backup their content, but now they have found that many of their customers wanted more features and full technical support.

So you talked and they listened! In addition to the “FREEMIUM” that they are offering to all bloggers, they are also going to offer a “Professional” account which will include 50mb of storage, support for backing up content linked from your blog, support for restoring your blog and e-mail support for pennies a day, if that is not enough storage for you they also are going to offer an “Enterprise” account that contains all of the support mentioned above but with 1GB of storage.

In finishing, my advice to any blogger out there is to Have Your Blog Backed Up…all of them, because you work too hard just to loose everything in a second. And if you’re going to take my advice about this, then take my advice and sign up for the “FREEMIUM” at BlogBackupOnline, it’s free, it effortless and best of all it’s safe and if you ever find that you need more support or space it’s always nice to know it’s right there at your fingertips, you don’t have to go all over the Internet looking for another place and moving everything again!

Well done BlogBackupOnline!

That’s all for me today! See you back again tomorrow for more…