(I’m Not Asking For A) Second Chance

The title has nothing (much) to do with the post itself, I just really love the song.

If you’re not familiar with the song, It’s James Blunt.  Yes, some people hate him.  Me?  Some of the songs are pants but You’re Beautiful, 1973, High and Same Mistake along with a couple of others I can’t remember right now are simply awesome music.

Still none the wiser?  This is the video for Same Mistake.  Even if you hate watching video, hit the play button open a new tab (Firefox FTW!) and just listen.

Oh, by the way, I’m blogging here again today because I just can’t stop myself. Oh, and I forgot to pay for my hosting!

I have a bit a decision to make though. I might continue blogging here for the moment as, even with all the restrictions I rather like the fact that wordpress.com is just “here”. It doesn’t go away or fall over like my hosting does (twice in two months, once my fault, once not!). I will still keep Cornell Finch but might turn it into a photoblog on a new host.

What The FUCK is this?

4 attempts to get this damned image to post.  And then I forgot to put a ring round it.  Guys - It’s not a TIP.  It’s ADVERTISING.

A tip: Use the “B” button in the write window to make something bold.

An Advert: Be the master of your own domain.

See the difference?  Nice forum thread too.

While I am whining, for gods’ sake PLEASE give us back the ability to edit our posts on the forum.  Even a five minute window would be nice.

I am liking wordpress.com less and less every time I “visit”.  I might just have to stop “visiting”.  I think the only thing that brings me back right now is the morbid curiosity of what people are going to be moaning about in the forum.

And don’t even get me started on the Possibly Related Posts thing.  I think between TGA and the forum threads, the whole subject has been pretty much covered.  As if it needed explained, I have already opted out by ticking the box.

Testing Video Uploads

After sucking in my fat belly and eating some humble pie, I am just testing the Movie uploads to see what happens.

I think it’s a problem for the user as he’s using Safari, but I can’t prove it as I am stuck with shitty Windows XP.

The Movie:

Failed miserably. The system offers you the upload option but my guess is that WP is simply using the same interface for video with just the modifications to give the information about inserting from the video server services (youtube, google video etc).

That. Sucks.

How about a “NOT WANK” blog?

So we’ve got WordPress Wank (in all the glory that is the naysayer of TGA), are there any blogs on wordpress.com that aren’t staff and regularly refute the shitty claims of all the negativity (and CPers) in the forum?

Should we have one?

I know we have http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/ - an awesome site for blogging tips, but that doesn’t necessarily sing WPs praises.

Or would we just be seen to be a fanboy and ridiculed for eternity?

Oh, and Zemanta is sucking trying to work with my wp.com blog right now. Works a treat with my self hosted blog though.

Bloody hell, a new post!

What’s this? 6 months after spitting the rattle, is he starting to use the wp.com again?

Well, maybe. For now I am just playing with the wp.com version of the upgrade to 2.5.

Doesn’t seem much different to the self-hosted version at the moment. And yes, I really like the self hosted version.

It’s nice that zemanta (firefox plugin) works with wp.com too. Although it seems to be broke right now as all I get is “Ooops, something went wrong!”

Now, how about a picture upload.

One that I grabbed very quickly from my desktop:

or at least, there would be if I could find the image uploader…
Found it! Not exactly obvious though is it! I think I would get used to it eventually, but it could really do with being more obvious.

I know that people have been complaining about the broken uploader. And no spell checker. And… and… and…

Well, that wasn’t too bad!

Now, all you dissenters:

Quit yer mankin’. It’s a major fecking upgrade. Things is gonna be broke. They’ve invested all this time in it and it ain’t goin’ back. Get used to it.

Oh, and how much do most people pay for this service? I pay nothing. You? Do you even have a right to moan? NO!

EDIT: The ONLY thing I think wp.com needs now is subscribe to comments. It has everything else and I refuse to use feedburner or and RSS reader for comments on every blog that I visit. Something like WLTC has it and I get loads of emails from one comment. Imagine if I picked up the RSS feed for comments on ICHC or that “white people like” blog. I would be sifting through too much shit just to see the reply to my one comment I would waste even more time than I already do…