Yes, it’s time to Beep Beep Boop.
If you are not a WordPress blogger then you won’t understand Beep Beep Boop.
Beep Beep Boop was what I was faced with at 1:30am the other morning while I was pre-Coffee. You can read about the trauma on OMG! They’ve done it Again.
I have coffee and am over the initial shock, still learning to drive Beep Beep Boop.
As a WP blogger, might I say ‘typical’, I have been confused over the difference between WP.com & Wp.org. A great post by Rachel, our Happiness Engineer, spells it out quite nicely.
Not this slug
She also answered my question about slugs.
She gave me a link: http://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#Slug where you can see what it is about WP slugs that’s different from the one to the left.
Ever since Rachel became our Happiness Engineer, I’ve often tried to picture a Happiness Engineer; I’ve even googled it. There were electrical, civil, mechanical, but no happiness.
But, I think I’ve got it.
Rachel, this is how I picture/envisage a Happiness Engineer.
There, I think that does it. She puts up with a lot of grief from me, so she deserves nice thoughts.
The weather is suffering from PMT, can’t make up it’s mind. Bright and sunny, dark and sinister, dull and sombre; oh, bright and sunny again…
I need more coffee…
BRB
Kitty came in. “Meeeooow!” (translate = get your priorities right!). Breakfast before your coffee.
Kitty got her wish. Crispy Beef and Fish Bisuits and a bowl of chilled Chateau Moo de Lap…
Then, I got my coffee.
I broke 17 ‘Likes’… I got 18 on my post Demons! Yay!
Australia’s prime minister stuck his nose into the Scottish independence debate yesterday. Today Scotland replied… “Scotland’s first minister has said the Australian prime minister’s comments on Scottish independence were “foolish, hypocritical and offensive”.” – BBCNews. That about sums up Tony Abbott nicely, “foolish, hypocritical and offensive”.
Time to Beep Beep Boop.
Later.
Life is but a Labyrinth 
Hahaha! I was pretty annoyed when confronted by that Beep Beep Boop. But then I saw that you could revert to the old style of posting and promptly chose to do so.
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>Lenny, if I had found that link, I would probably have done the same. Howevere, I didn’t and now that I am over that initial shock (I blame it entirely on NO coffee) I am quite comfortable with the new look. Live dangerously Lenny! Try it! You may like it….
AV
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Whew. That got me out of a bunch of typing!
I must be crazy. They changed the WP on the puter? Huh. This is why I’m a bit behind on your beep, beep boop thing. . I will check it out.
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>MWPG, so because you mainly use your phone, you figured I was a bit touched, huh? Well, I am! That shouldn’t be a surpriose to any regular reader of my posts… like yourself. 🙂
AV
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Ha! You are a bit touched. However, that is why I like you! 😆
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From what I understand of these changes, it only applies if you go in to edit a post from the front of your blog, not from the dashboard, which is the way I always go, I had no idea what you were talking about until I tried to do an edit from the front!!
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>Shana, going to post from dashboard, how quaint… I have always gone from the blog front; I have so many blogs (10) I need a quick change.
AV
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It’s because I used to install WP blogs, so I’ve always worked from the backend!! 🙂
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I won’t tell you what flashed through my mind at that statement… 🙂
AV
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LOL I can imagine!!
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🙂
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haha, funny post. You don’t cause me grief at all! As a Happiness Engineer my role is to spread happiness in the blogosphere. So I’m very happy to help out in any way I can. 🙂
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>Rachel, you make me happy… After reading this comment, I now envisage you dancing along like some modern Mary Poppins hippie scattering rose petals of happiness around the grass against a mountainous background.
🙂
AV
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That’s so funny 🙂
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Can’t help it. I have an overactive imagination… 🙂
AV
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Please, sir, can you advise me how in heck to create a one-word link to a site, such as you using “post” which took me to Rachel’s post? I tried this HTML code, with no luck: Link text (I stuck a URL between the ” ” symbols)
I’ll send you Tony Abbott as payment for your help, which probably means you’ll politely refuse. 🙂
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>Yvonne, I’ll show you mine, if you show me yours… How did you make a clickable link like your ‘link text’ in your comment?
I always post the url…
Re the Tony Abbott offer, thanks, but no thanks. Australia voted him in, OZ deserves him as recompense for their collective stupidity. Bearing in mind that not ALL Aussies voted for him, you should be looking for the ones who did and have them publicly flogged at Botany Bay.
AV
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In the tools at the top of the new post page, you have two paperclip symbols, block the text you want as a link, click the left (the whole one) opens a box to enter the url, click okay. The right (the broken one) undoes a link already made.
Now I am going to try something and maybe answer my own question… “http://thingsthatfizz.wordpress.com/” I am hoping that will take you to my Fizz blog.
AV
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Nope…. you’ll have to enlighten me further 😦
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Life is getting so darn complex. I do use the linking thing-o you describe, but I’d love to have a neat one word clickable link for folks., as you did in your post.
The HTML link seems to have vanished from my comment. WTH!? The code is:
Link text Let’s see if that sticks, or we get the “Link text” message again.
Have you had your coffee yet?
Our Finance Minister runs a close second to the Budgie Smuggling Prime Minister. He famously said, apropos a planned increase in the fuel excise “It won’t affect poor people, they don’t drive cars.” Richard Cranium.
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Argh, that was even worse. I’ll ask my nerd son about this, and let you know, if he gives me a nice simple answer.
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I tried all those links, inc the first, and they all lead to 404 page not found… 😦
AV
Oh, I just block one word and do the paperclip thing.
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OK, I pasted this code into a new post: Link text
Then I copied the URL from this post, and copied it into the space between the quote marks. Into the place marked Link text, I typed beep (after deleting that phrase). When I went to the “Visual” format, ta-da, only beep appeared. When I highlighted that and opened in another tab, your post appeared.
beep
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Oh, “eff” word, the code keeps vanishing. If you go to this page, http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_links.asp and look at the entry titled HTML Link Syntax, you’ll find that slippery code. I need one of your Nap-fus now.
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I’ve saved that link, thanks. I will try it when I need it.
AV
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Ha! My sentiments exactly. I should know by now not to try to blog before I’ve had my coffee but after some bumps I find I really like Beep Beep Boop just fine. And I LOVE the Happiness Engineer!
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>melissa, agreed. Now that I am used to beep beep boop, I’d never go back. Thanks for the visit and comment, appreciated.
AV
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