Choices

Today I will witness the choices I make in each moment.  And in the mere witnessing of these choices, I will bring them to my conscious awareness. (Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws Of Success, p. 46)

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Learning doesn't seem to get any easier.  The new computer allows me to explore many things I wasn't able to investigate when I was using the old computer with its severe limitations.  Now I always feel like I am playing catch-up.  This week I've worked on several projects:

• WordPress
• BookCrossing
• YouTube Playlists
• Posting links on Mr. Dickie's Blog to:
• WordPress
• Google Docs
• BookCrossing

I'm using WordPress to create a private blog where I can do some journaling with the computer.  For the last several years I have been putting my daily journal entries on yellow legal-size paper.  I usually do most of this writing in the morning.  I plan to continue this practice.  After I bought a used book about WordPress I started thinking about how I could learn about the application.  That's when the thought came to me that a good project might be to create a private blog. My friend in Illinois, Job Conger, has been using WordPress for his public blog Honey and Quinine for a long time.

Mr. Dickie

18 February 2012

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

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