December 4th, 2009
I’ve been visiting a lot of celebrity gossip blogs lately and once in a while I want to leave a comment. I am so sick and tired of creating new user names and passwords on new sites all the time, and I really don’t want to use my Facebook or Myspace logins for OpenID. I’ve known about OpenID for years and never really paid much attention to it, but I decided to do a little research today to see what I could come up with.
My first stop was chi.mp where I created an account, netHideaway.mp. Chi.mp will allow you to import your Facebook, Twitter and Flickr content. You can import your Facebook photo albums and chi.mp has a mini blog you can post to which has the option to add your post to to your Facebook or Twitter accounts. Chi.mp seems really cool but I already have too many irons in the fire and I don’t need another one.
I did some more research and found a great OpenID tutorial over at Simon Willison’s Weblog. I found out how to turn my website into my own OpenID in two easy steps:
1. Sign up with an OpenID provider
Some OpenID providers are LiveJournal, Vox, VeriSign Labs, MyOpenID, and chi.mp that I mentioned earlier. Other providers are listed at openid.net.
2. Point your website to your new OpenID
You do this by adding two simple lines of code into the <head> tag of the page you’ll be using. I chose MyOpenID as my provider and inserted the following code into the <head> tag of my website netHideaway.com:
<link rel=”openid.server” href=”http://www.myopenid.com/server”>
<link rel=”openid.delegate” href=”http://nethideaway.myopenid.com”>
To find out your server name just view the source page of your OpenId account. (In my case this is nethideaway.myopenid.com.)
Your delegate is the OpenID you received from your OpenID provider.
That’s all there is to it. Now I can log in as netHideaway on any web site where there is an option to use OpenID. If for any reason I decide I don’t trust my OpenID provider anymore I can always get a new one from a different provider and never have to change my login again. Yay!
If you need a more indepth explanation check out the OpenID tutorial I mentioned above.
Tags: OpenID
Posted in WebDev, Internet & Geek
November 26th, 2009
If I reviewed your website but you’re getting a “page not found” error, that’s because I changed my permalink structure when I reinstalled Wordpress. Your review is still here. Just scroll down a bit and you should see it. I’m sorry for the inconvenience. 
Posted in Another Day in Paradise
November 26th, 2009
I really tried hard to upgrade my Wordpress installation from 2.1.2 to the current version but my database got corrupted somehow and I had to delete the whole blog. Luckily, I exported all my pages and posts before I attempted to upgrade. I manually installed the latest version of Wordpress and imported my backed up data. Unfortunately, my pages and posts made the trip, but my links didn’t.
After not posting here for the last two years I’m sorry to say I don’t remember who I was linking to. If you check to see if your link is still here and it isn’t, that’s the reason. It really makes me sick to lose all of my blogrolls and link backs. I never even thought to take a screen shot before I started trying to upgrade. Oh well, live and learn.
Posted in Another Day in Paradise, WebDev, Internet & Geek
November 19th, 2009
I’m not looking for car insurance at the present time but my youngest step-son is in the market for car insurance. He just looked at me like I was crazy when I told him about the old days when we had to get out the yellow pages and make call after after call and then compare quotes ourselves when we were looking for insurance. So many things are made better with the internet and world wide web. In our modern day world you can compare auto insurance quotes online from a variety of insurers with one simple process.
Finding free online car insurance quotes at OnlineAutoInsurance.com couldn’t be simpler. OnlineAutoInsurance.com provides an easy to use web tool which allows you to put in the information about yourself and your vehicle. They then match you with several providers to choose from. Remember, don’t go with the lowest priced insurer because they are the cheapest. Do your homework and check out the company before you hand them over any cash. Good luck and good hunting!
Posted in Chit Chat
November 19th, 2009
It has been a little over two years since the Old Lady died and a long time since I’ve posted here. Looking back over the past two years I can’t say that a lot has happened in my life. The only major thing I can think of that has changed is that we purchased a house this past summer. I reckon I can’t say I’m trailer trash anymore. Or maybe I can, because from what I understand you can take the girl out of the trailer park but you can’t take the trailer park out of the girl. *just grins*
Another major thing that happened is that my best friend since junior high school passed away last February. I’ve had a hard time coming to terms with it but I think I’m on the uphill climb now.
Most of the time during the past two years I’ve been relieved that I wasn’t blogging anymore. I was doing a lot of paid posts and jumping through hoops for one particular paid blogging company and I was being treated badly by the back-biting claw-your-way-to-the-top regardless of who you step on clique of bloggers from said paid blogging company, and, since I really didn’t need the money I walked away from paid blogging and blogging altogether. Getting paid to blog about things you love is the biggest bunch of bullshit this company tries to preach. I started feeling like THEY owned my blog the way they acted by telling me what I can do, can’t do, what I can say, what I can’t say, yada yada yada. I’m not saying I won’t blog for them again. My PayPal account is getting kind of low and there are a few things I’d like to buy on the internet (domain names, web hosting, software, games, etc.) so it won’t hurt to plump it back up again. What I am saying is that I’m not going to compromise myself again for this company or any other.
Another reason I stopped blogging is that this blog and being able to vent about the Old Lady is probably what saved me from having a complete nervous breakdown. After going back and re-reading some of the posts I wrote and remembering my feelings when I wrote them I’m surprised I held up as well as I did. I needed to regroup and get myself back to a balanced state. I’ve even thought about starting a new blog but I’m not going to do that. I don’t want to erase the past. I want to learn from it.
Something else that surprises me is that there are still 21 people subscribed to my RSS feed. That makes me laugh. I wonder what they have been reading for the last two years.
So here I am again. I’m not sure how often I’ll be posting. I guess I’ll be posting as often or seldom as I want to. After all, it’s my blog isn’t it? 
Tags: forever home, The Old Lady
Posted in Another Day in Paradise, The Old Lady
March 6th, 2008
Looking for a 24-hour house party on the web? The Hideaway (nethideaway.com) is a retro-style adult chat community providing guests and members with access to a broad collection of interactive online community services. This includes free personal home pages, free public and private chat rooms, free discussion forums, and other web publishing tools.
If you’re looking for an old-fashioned social networking community for adults I think you’ll really like the Hideaway. Some Hideaway members have opened their discussion forums to the community with such topics as entertainment, cooking, graphics help, drinks and drink recipes, general discussion, blues and music, eco-tourism, jokes and laughter, politics, relationships, books, sports and many others. This social networking site is still in early development and topics for open forums are only limited by our members’ imaginations.
If you are 18 years of age or older please drop by and say hello. To receive your free website which includes a discussion forum, guest book and private chat room all you have to do is create a handle at the Hideaway and post to the Support Board requesting your free “limited” membership. If you mention coupon code HECKOFIT when you post your request you will receive a free one-month Full Membership.
While the Hideaway is NOT a porn site, the Hideaway is a community which has been specifically designed for adults and as such some of the community pages may not be family friendly or safe for the workplace. Please be 18 or over if you decide to drop by and pay us a visit. We’d love to have you join us at the Hideaway, where community, contribution and collaboration is a way of life.
Posted in Social Networking, WebDev, Internet & Geek
March 2nd, 2008
I agreed to do a side bar link exchange with a mom reviews blog. I don’t see my link on their side bar anymore. I don’t mind them changing their mind but I think the courteous thing would be to let me know they were taking my link down so I could do the same.
Posted in WebDev, Internet & Geek
November 15th, 2007
I saw this little quiz over at Julie’s Journal so of course I had to take it too. Here are my results. Not a surprise there, I’m a purist because I totally hate ads on my blog. Every once in a while I get a wild hair and put up some ads but they annoy me so much I eventually remove them.
I got a MINUS 3 for sociability and it is so true! Haha, not much I can say about that.
Here is my result:
Greed: 0
You’re not in this for the money, for you blogging is all about the passion! Sure you might make a little pocket change now and again, but you know that it’s the content, the audience and the people that are what makes blogging great!
Experience: 2
You’ve been blogging since Nick Denton was in diapers. When it comes to blogging experience, you are the authority on blogging. Heck you probably even have a blog where you give advice about blogging!
Sociability: -3
Social media, other bloggers, networks and all that jazz don’t really interest you. You have enough friends in the real world, you don’t need more. You blog because you want to express yourself not to meet bloggers!
Posted in Linky Love, WebDev, Internet & Geek
