About WordPress Changes and What We Can Do

January 27, 2015January 27, 20157 Comments

REBLOGGED WITH PERMISSION from: Freed From Time

If you are a WordPress user on a PC desk format and are not happy with the changes to the format for communication, stats and “BEEP BeeP BooP” publishing page, then let’s do something about it! If you like and agree with what you see, then please reblog this post to your site too. Because unlike in the past, it is clear that Matt Mullenweg and the WP *Helper Monkeys are not listening to us in the forums.

*Helper Monkeys: Their term not mine.

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For Help with the changes please click here . This content is Underlying Motive, The Problem, Probable Cause, How We Can Make a Difference and Remaining Questions.

Underlying Motive

Matt Mullenweg, owner and recently appointed CEO of WordPress, has himself indicated a wish to pursue the mobile market which is made clear in and interview with Forbes click here. However that interview does not indicate any intention to abandon desk top users.

Add to this, Tiger Global now have at a total of $110 million invested in WP here. Tiger Global also have investments in the expanding Indian and South American mobile and e-commerce markets.

This is altogether an entirely legitimate business pursuit but it’s gone wrong.

The Problem

The mobile versions of the user interface have been so inept as to spoil its credibility from the outset and at the same time alienate desktop users. Complaints…

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Nemisis

January 22, 2015January 22, 201559 Comments

A anxiety

G gasping

O out alone

R racing heart

A anger (self)

P panic

H helplessness

O oppressive feeling of fear

B behavioral anomaly

I irrational

A avoidance

Today halfway through physical therapy I began to tear up. My heart began to race. I tried to control it, but it seemed the harder I tried, the worse it got. I got up to go to the next station for treatment and suddenly felt faint.

PANIC.

Crying and fainting are not allowed in public. (My rule.)

I had to go, NOW.

I am uncertain as to the trigger for today’s incident, but feel it had something to do with the unannounced change in Physical Therapists.

All the way home I kept telling myself I don’t need medication. Haven’t had it, don’t want it, no way! After all, I have been doing quite well for over a year now and cannot understand this sudden, out of nowhere, fall into the abyss of fear and panic.

How I felt when I got home…

Embarrassed.

It is a mystery.

One that I hope does not repeat itself.

Friday Fictioneers: puff and nonsense

January 21, 2015January 22, 201538 Comments

Creative writing in one hundred words is the idea. Word press says I have 99, Microsoft Word says I have 100. Don’t care. I’m only in it for the fun!

As always, thanks goes out to Rochelle for her constant procurement and supply of picture prompts to get us going each week!

PHOTO PROMPT – Copyright – Georgia Koch

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For Friday the 23, 2015

Puff and Nonsense

It was dusk and she needed to get home before dark. She’d been warned about the Trolls that lived under the bridge. It was said that if you didn’t have the toll to pay them that you would be taken to live with them forever.

Nonsense, she told herself. Little kid stuff to send you running to get home on time and to give you nightmares. I’m not a kid anymore, she thought. Running at a quick trot she started to cross the bridge and thought she heard a growl…

Thinking better of it she decided to take the boat.

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Words: 100 (I’m going with Microsoft Word on this one. 😉 )

For some really great takes on this week’s prompt look HERE.

Notes on Fairy Tales:

Fairy Tales are found in every culture. They are almost always didactic, cautionary, or seeking to explain something in nature that wasn’t explained before our scientific minds sought to solve it.

For a child it is easy to believe, and for some of us it is hard to give up the make-believe of our youth. I jumped into bed every night after turning off the light until I was well into my teens. Laugh if you will, but who here still believes in ghosts, the chupacabras, or aliens?

I am taking liberties with Georgia Koch’s photo to show you how I came to my story today.

Do you see them? There are two hiding under the bridge. The one in the middle of this crop is seated in the shadows. The larger of the two, just left of center, is standing up.

FYI, The ability to see these images is called Pareidolia, and almost all of us have this ability. OK, some of us are better at it than others, so don’t feel bad if you can’t see those trolls. You can read a bit about Pareidolia: HERE

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Thank you Georgia for sharing your lovely photo art with us!

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And for those who may not know the original Norwegian Folktale about a Troll under the bridge you can read it: HERE

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Friday Fictioneers: dinner with the folks

January 14, 2015January 15, 201537 Comments

It’s been too long since I wrote for Friday Fictioneers. My brain cells feel rusty and my fingers out of shape. However here is my entry for Friday the 16th, 2015.

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Dinner With the Folks

PHOTO PROMPT – Copyright – Jan Wayne Fields

They’d dated for a year and he knew she was the one. On Saturday he’d planned to have her over to meet his folks. He’d chosen a ring to give her when they were alone that night.

With red-rimmed eyes he stood at the window absently fingering the little box in his pocket. He considered just wrapping the table’s contents into the tablecloth to take out to the trash.

Her message that morning: “Darling, I’m bringing a surprise for your parents, see you soon!” (Shots in the background)

No time to duck the bullets; she silently slumped to the ground.