November 2010 Archives

Since my previous blog portfolio, I have learned the following:

The USB that I had thought that I lost in a small town just south of the New York border called Bradford, Pa was found this week in the pocket of my petty coat. I was quite ecstatic as it had all my previous work as a writer and student saved on it and for the past year I had thought it lost for good. Though this seems to be a wondrous occurrence, it was also the second time I had lost the stupid thing - I'm just not good at keeping track of small objects. So I can't help but wonder, when and where am I going to lose it next? This also brings up another question, how do I save all of my work? I know you should always back files up in separate places, yet USB's can be lost and computers can crash. So here is my question fellow writers: What do you guys do to make sure you don't lose works that you wish to work on/ publish at a later date? Do you print out hard copies? Keep a journal locked away on some deserted island? Keep it in some Swiss bank safe under lock and key (and possible motion censored lasers and fat security guards)? Do you have backup? A backup for your backup?

Remember my blog post where I said I loved HTML? Yes well, it has now dissolved into a love/hate relationship. I love how methodical it is, I love how it all just comes together...however this only happens when you do everything correctly, and seeing as how I am human, I am far from perfect so there were many times of frustration to be had. Luckily, I heard from my fellow classmate, DJ about iWeb, which is an amazing application on mac that supplies templates and makes the creation of a website fun and easy! Did anyone else's views on HTML change throughout the development of their web portfolio? 

I think I am starting from scratch and using a nifty template. I think.

Since the last time I did one of these things, I learned:

I really like using HTML, there is just something to the methodology of the formulas. It's soothing, as I do the assignments I just sink into the routine. "Ok if I add <p> I know I have to finish with </p>." I've seen HTML before, back in the good old days when MySpace was still cool, I went to a website with some catchy gimmick of a domain like "cutelayouts.com." I would then have to find the layout I liked then copy and paste the code onto my myspace page. There were even times where I would have to replace the generic <title> with one of my own. 

This blog post scares me. Alright, so not the blog itself, but more the comments left on the post. There are some mixed reviews and some nice ones but then there are the downright mean ones! Look at the top, the editor of the site (writerunboxed.com) had to add a preface, a little slap on the wrists to remind folks to be nice when they criticize, to be courteous. 

My Video: The Writing Portion: mmpro-twitter.docx