Anna-Nicole and html Code By genius of despair

We all have to face our greatest fears. I faced my thousand pound gorilla yesterday. It was html, the computer code that created this blog.

Gimleteye and I were trying to give you the ability to skip over most of what we write with a “Read More” button. Self-defeating aren't we? Or do we just know your attention span. I decided to take the easy way out.


I contacted my computer savvy brother, a computer engineer in New York who writes code for a living. His response was:
I am embarrassed to say I don’t know html.
So much for family.

I decided to hunker down and do it. I read the blogspot directions. The directions said, when you see “such and such” paste this after it: and there was a lot of code to paste. Well, what they wanted me to look for wasn’t there. So I went to the group pages on blogspot and noticed that no one else seemed able to do this either. I tried following what they described as "easy to follow directions" and they didn’t work either. Everything went wrong when I tested out my code additions. I spent all day on this. My computer teacher always said: "If it doesn't work on a computer, don't do it again, it will not work a second time." Good advice, but in life I do it over so often, it comes naturally to expect different results from my friend the computer when I do the same thing once again. I was in this loop...

Then God came to the rescue, in the form of fellow blogger Gimleteye. As you can see it is now working. You can now skip over my blogs more easily.

Gimleteye might not have figured out how to attract your attention with a racy picture of Anna-Nicole for a column about Anna-Nicole. But, I used her picture to get you to read about my angst with computer code, and if you read up to here: It worked.

I liked Anna-Nicole. She was like Jane Mansfield. I am using pinup pictures now to keep you attentive.

I often wonder: Why do all these people do their "thing" in Florida? The unstable astronaut lady, Anna-Nicole, the anthrax at the National Enquirer headquarters in Boca, some of the 9/11 terrorists lived here, and we even have our own, the Liberty City terrorists. Wacky, wacky Florida. You have to love this place.