Yesterday In Cockney And Redneck

Cockney

Yesterday several fings were irritatin' me. One of them bein' a spam...er "blogger" 'oo bypassed word verification ter spam a blog, init?The final stror came wen I came across an example blog I fought were a spam bog.

I ended up bloggin' wile angry and tired. That is never a right good idea. I deleted the post I wrote because it bovvered me. I may use parts of it in anuvver post.

Yesterday weren't all bad. I got ter practise readin' some Dutch.(Thanks Men! Blimey!) I'm still pretty weak at it but I'm learnin' and I use Babelfish wen I cop stuck, right?

Redneck

Yestiddy sevahal thin's were irritatin' me. One of them bein' a spam, dawgone it...er "blogger" who bypassed wo'd vahificashun t'spam a blog, acco'din' t' th' code o' th' heells! Th' final straw came when ah came acrost an example blog ah thunk was a spam blog, acco'din' t' th' code o' th' heells!

Ah ended up bloggin' while angry an' tired, cuss it all t' tarnation. Thet is nevah a fine idea. ah deleted th' post ah wrote on account o' it bothard me. ah may use parts of it in t'other post.

Yestiddy warn't all bad, cuss it all t' tarnation. ah gotta prackise readin' some Dutch.(Thanks Men! Fry mah hide!) ah's still purdy weak at it but ah's larnin'an' ah use Babe'fish when ah git stuck. Shet mah mouth!
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This post was created using The Dialectizer - which I have mentioned before in this blog. Thanks to Comyn for reminding me of it.

Blogs, Diaries, And Other Silly Things

I am using OpenOffice.org to write this entry. Lately I have been using Mozilla Composer because I got tired of writing out: < a href="url">website< / a> whenever I wanted to add a link. OpenOffice.org can do hyperlinks but they end up as text in Diaryland.

Composer's links do also unless you copy from the html source.

I was using Composer to do everything but I find it usually adds extra coding to the Diaryland entries. This can mess with formating and links. Another problem with Composer is that complains if I have too many instances of Mozilla open.

I wish these programs would allow the basic options of html to be added to text pages like Textshield Fusion does. With a simple click in the toolbar you can add the url format I have shown above. The program is a nice basic word processor but it only works in Windows and the website is gone.

Normally I don't worry about links because my focus is on my thoughts. Links can be useful at times. I could write them out like: "www.blogger.com" and let the reader do the work of cutting and pasting but I find it breaks the continuity of my "presentation". Furthermore, some links have many characters. (See the Dialectizer examples below).

I could go back to using Blogger for my journals or I could open a Typepad account. Blogger is free and I have several blogs on my account. The program seems more stable and there more features than before but archives are still in date format. I like the way Diaryland handles archives. I also like the way Diaryland builds community. IF I left for another hosted free site I would probably go to Diary – x, or Live Journal. But, I am not leaving yet. This is my cyber cottage. (Complete with eccentric neighbours).

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Now that my thoughts have been worked out I can turn to the silly stuff. The Dialectizer is a weird program that translates your web page into different dialects. Here is what Firemind looks like in "Redneck":

http://rinkworks.com/dialect/dialectp.cgi?dialect
=redneck&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffiremind.diaryland.com

(Note the ugly long code.)

Here is the Jive version.

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Well that's all for this morning. I am off to play a game.