{"id":635,"date":"2015-12-27T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/?p=635"},"modified":"2015-12-28T00:21:19","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T10:21:19","slug":"yes-i-am-still-doing-very-well-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/yes-i-am-still-doing-very-well-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes! I am still doing very well here!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally posted to GadgetGypsy.Xanga.com<\/a> on November 16, 2008 at 22:08. Originally posted here on May 24, 2009 at 21:52 with an updated train of thought and altered phrasing. Now Updated again with some new information…<\/p>\n

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In November 2008, I experienced a ‘wild hair’ and decided to learn some Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) Web Design for a Weblog! Now. If you know me … you KNOW that I HATE programming even though I can usually puzzle it out; but some how I have taken new interest in Web Design since I started my first Blog on Xanga and after seeing what was possible from viewing AND reading the posts at Darkerview.com<\/a>!<\/p>\n

However, I WILL NOT refer to CSS as ‘programming’ any more than I will EVER give in to the construct that Pluto<\/strong><\/em> is no longer classified as a planet!!!! Since, for me, CSS is not as abstract and confusing as the programming (in ‘C’ language) that I had to take for my Management Information Systems<\/a> \/ Operations Management<\/a> (MIS\/OM) Bachelors of Science (BS) degree at The University of Arizona (UA)<\/a> with all the ‘for’ and ‘if; then’ statements that usually ended up in a nasty looping mess every time I first wrote a program!?!?!? It took me waaaay tooooo long to get it fixed, and I was usually disappointed in how little I had accomplished with all those lines of code :-O <\/p>\n

So: I asked Andy, my husband and my best friend, to teach me the basics on setting up and configuring my own blog with my own domain where I have more extensive room for creativity! I continue to request help when I get stuck (it is nice to have such a knowledgeable, interactive reference so handy). Thus, my new Blog of my own domain was ‘born’<\/em>: GadgetGypsy.com<\/a>! Andy is an excellent tutor; but please don’t tell him that I said so … His job at Keck Observatories keeps his head in the clouds enough without the compliments going to his head as well ;-D<\/p>\n

For those of you who have been asking: The name ‘GadgetGypsy’ came from my college days that started in Air Force Technical Training. I like the new, intriguing electronic gadgets that come available on the market; and I obtain them for the ‘learning’ opportunity that they provide as well as the fascination that they instill as I figure out their capabilities and functions. Through experience of buying too early, I have also learned to exhibit patience (VERY hard for me to do); and wait a generation or two before I buy-in. I still forget myself on occasion and the hard lesson is once again driven home when I ‘impulse’ buy a new technology that still needs to be debugged! Although painful and sometimes pricey, the lessons are still good and valuable experience!<\/p>\n

You are invited to drop by here to check it out often! But be warned; I am, and will be, learning the intricacies of CSS for quite a while as I get GadgetGypsy.com configured to my liking. Please don’t let the constant changes (or occasional changes as I approach my ideal) turn you off or scare you away; OR keep you from providing me valid, constructive and valuable feedback and comments!<\/p>\n

I like the community at Xanga still; and the Photo Contest at iliveinmycamera<\/a> is, to me, a ‘not-to-be-missed’ blogger-tunity if you have the time to take and post the weekly photo assignments! So, I will still keep GadgetGypsy.Xanga.com<\/a> open and active. I will not be using it as much as I was; and other than the occasional posting here and there, about or to, the Photo Contest or something related to my Xanga friends, or regarding a new post to check out at GadgetyGypsy.com, I will be putting my Picts, Vid Clips, and main posts on GadgetGypsy.com.<\/p>\n

See you over here (GadgetGypsy.com) AND over there (GadgetGypsy.Xanga.com<\/a>)! They are both (or at least GadgetGypsy.com still is) RSS feed capable so you can subscribe to it\/them through your RSS Reader. (Update; 12\/27\/2015: the unofficial Photo Contest was no longer running when last I was there; but another may have opened up)<\/p>\n

Aloha and Happy Blogging! –GG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Originally posted to GadgetGypsy.Xanga.com on November 16, 2008 at 22:08. Originally posted here on May 24, 2009 at 21:52 with an updated train of thought and altered phrasing. Now Updated again with some new information… \ud83d\ude00 In November 2008, I experienced a ‘wild hair’ and decided to learn some Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) Web Design for a Weblog! Now. If you know me … you KNOW that I HATE programming even though I can usually puzzle it out; but some how I have taken new interest in Web Design since I started my first Blog on Xanga and after seeing what was possible from viewing AND reading the posts at Darkerview.com! However, I WILL NOT refer to CSS as ‘programming’ any more than I will EVER give in to the construct that Pluto is no longer classified as a planet!!!! Since, for me, CSS is not as abstract and confusing as the programming (in ‘C’ language) that I had to take for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[62,45,59,67,34],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7j5sP-af","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1293,"href":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}