WordPress

I can spend today doing only what I choose to do.  

I will appreciate this.  

I've earned it. 

(Karen Casey, Keepers Of The Wisdom, 3 January)

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Yesterday I worked on a project to create a YouTube playlist for WordPress.  I put 38 videos into the play list.  Below I've listed links to a nine-part tutorial prepared by one person.

WordPress Tutorial For Beginners - Part 1 - Intro and Goals

WordPress Tutorial For Beginners - Part 2 - The Dashboard

WordPress Tutorial For Beginners - Part 3 - General Settings

WordPress Tutorial For Beginners - Part 4 - General Settings (Part 2)

WordPress Tutorial For Beginners - Part 5 - Appearance Settings, Menus, and Widgets

WordPress Tutorial For Beginners - Part 6 - Adding Users

WordPress Tutorial For Beginners - Part 7 - Installing and Managing Plug-ins

WordPress Tutorial For Beginners - Part 8 - The Difference Between Posts and Pages

WordPress Tutorial For Beginners - Part 9 - Inserting Media and Managing Comments

Here's the link to my playlist.

Mr. Dickie's WordPress Playlist

Here's the link to the tutorials of WordPress.

WordPress

Mr. Dickie
16 February 2012

BookCrossing

There is no rule that says I have to be and think and act the same way my whole life. Today is a clean slate. I can be who I want to be. (Karen Casey, Keepers Of The Wisdom, 11 February)

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I signed up for the book sharing application, BookCrossing.  I went to Staples to buy a packet of Avery 2"x4" labels, ten to a sheet, that I can use to print the labels I'll be attaching to the books I'm going to release.

Here are links to some of the BookCrossing videos I watched on YouTube.

What Is BookCrossing?

BookCrossing ABC7 - Los Angeles

BookCrossing - News Media Spot

BookCrossing

BookCrossing FlashMob - Glenelg

BookCrossing - Radio (In Italian)

BookCrossing - The Journey

BookCrossing - Carrie Release

Mr. Dickie
15 February 2012

Compulsive Escapes

There are many opportunities for compulsive escapes from life through dependent relationships with:

• others, 
• money, 
• alcohol, 
• tobacco, 
• sex, 
• food,
• drugs,
• work, or
• emotional binges.

(after Touchstones, 28 January)
14 February 2012

Self-Development

A huge part of self-development - whether it takes place through therapy, life coaching, a Twelve Step group, religious or spiritual practice, or simple self-reflection - is being able to step back, notice what we are guilty of, and admit it. (Craig Nakken, Finding Your Moral Compass, p. 110-11) 13 February 2012

Detachment

Without detachment we are prisoners of

• helplessness, 
• hopelessness, 
• mundane needs, 
• trivial concerns, 
• quiet desperation, and 
• seriousness -- 

the distinctive features of everyday mediocre existence and poverty consciousness. (Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws Of Success, p. 85) 12 February 2012

Heart of Caroline - sung by Wayne Taylor

Forgetting And Remembering

Seat of Forgetting and Remembering

"They teach us to remember; why do they not teach us to forget? There is not a man living who has not, some time in his life, admitted that memory was as much of a curse as a blessing." (Francis Durivage, with a small change to the phrase, "why do not they" in Pulling Your Own Strings by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, p. 71) 11 February 2012

Pay Attention

Whatever you put your attention on will grow stronger in your life. Whatever you take your attention away from will wither, disintegrate, and disappear. (Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, p. 70)

... getting a great idea without acting on it is like inspiration with no perspiration.  Most people never make it past the inspiration phase. (Doug Sahlin and Chris Botello, YouTube For Dummies, p. 10)

Fight bravely, for habit overcomes habit. (Thomas 'A Kempis, The Imitation Of Christ, Book 1, Chapter 21, p. 52)

Life thrives on possibilities and options. (Touchstones, 10 January)

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I asked my Facebook friends for comments about Costco.  I was pleased with the number of replies.  Most  wrote favorably about their shopping experiences.  Our membership in BJs will expire at the end of this month.  For a long time I have been complaining about the lack of open checkout lines.  It's my opinion that a membership store that charges $50.00 a year ought to provide people to checkout the merchandise.  Several times I've told management, "If I wanted to do checkout work I'd apply for a job."

I'm scanning a book about the WordPress blogger that I bought the other day at the library bookstore.  It's very similar to the Google Blogger.  I'm thinking about trying it out.  I could use it to create a private journal that I would use for making some notes when I'm at the computer.

Mr. Dickie

10 February 2012