Hello world! Well... OK, I can actually count the number of readers on fewer than the fingers on one hand. And one of those readers is me. I know, neither very original nor witty. So, just three sentences into it and I am already crumbling under the pressure of writing the inaugural post! Yikes, this does not bode well for the heroine of this blog. I wrote a long About page and that felt a lot like writing my first post. Someday, I will have to have to trim it. It includes the why, a lot of crazy who, and what of this blog. I won't duplicate the "About" contents in this introduction post. Skip the déjà vu. If you missed the fruity oaty reason for the name of my blog, check it out here. ;-)
I wanted to start blogging a few years ago, but all the bad spelling and grammar proliferating on the internet depressed me. :-D I didn't want to add to my already sad state. My real reason for blogging is 'cause I'd like to document some things I want to remember in the future. Sort of a content management system for my aging, fuzzy brain. Also, I needed to cut back on instant messaging and e-mailing the same topics, files, etc. over and over to many different people. One time, one place, many people.
My blog will always be under construction. I like to tinker and break stuff. If you see something out of whack, it's probably because I am fiddling with something again. If something looks really, really wrong, check your eyes first or feel free to contact me.
In the top menu navigation (near my blog banner), you'll see the usual suspects like Home, Links, Archives, About, and Contact. Some imagery is streamed from my Flickr album. Sign up for a free Flickr account and comment on my images. But if you're expecting pretty pictures, you've come to the wrong place as my photography skills are so lacking. And I have a crappy camera. :-(
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Look around, it's much less painful than reading this lame intro. Besides, my fingers are beginning to tire of typing... OK, that's all and that's enough for now. I really hope you come back. My following posts will be much shorter (I lie! Ha!) and hopefully, more interesting. I'll start working on bug fixing and content, right now. Welcome to my lair!
Au revoir,
Massa P aka "fruity"
Hi fruity... Voted for you - Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs in 2007! :-)
@Evilgenius: Ah, cwafty gwirlie, hwunting wabbits agwain. Thanks for that. I was fooling around last night with this area... but what you found is MOST LIKELY a bug. I don't know if I want to fix it (it's a FEATURE!)... or more truthfully, I wouldn't KNOW HOW, HAHAHA! Remember fruity's fruity oaty corporate motto: "I don't build software, I just point out your miserable failings and do my little Mexican hat dance! Besides, I don't know how to code!"
You're going to make me pay a thousand times over for all the suffering any tester made you go through huh? ;-)
Seriously, I'm using like a MILLION plugins written by others... that I hacked up (hacks 'r us) and fixed. It seems, every time I fix one bug or modify something, I break something else in another plugin (hahaha).
Posts? Oh, I've already got my next 4 written. I'm a lean mean, blogging machine! It's just a matter of WHEN I release them. BTW, you're like the 8th person to ask me what the "mysterious Pi (n) thing holds"! It looks like an "n" because the font is not "Times Roman". HAHAHA! The area holds plans for world domination, yeah baby! Or perhaps PORN. Hehehe, so lame. :-D
Looking at this page, with just 9 comments... reminds me that I want to be able to "page" (next, previous) comments. Not that I have a big ego, not assuming a horde of commenters or readers ever... but ewww... comments stretch the length of the screen. UGLY. Just another thing I have to build or STEAL & HACK UP!
ERROR!!! I GOT AN ERROR!!! After clicking the "Holler Back" button. Here's the message:
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A Runtime Error has occured.
Do you wish to Debug?
Line: 80
Error: Member not found.
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Didn't get it the first time. Hmm.
Ah good... eh, I mean, darn! Back to the drawing board... LOL! >:-)
Neat stuff.
So, where's the third post? Are you going to have the Flickr area up and running by Labour Day (2006)? Oh, and I also want my password!! Inquiring mind want to know what's in the section for 3.1415926535... (either that or it's a very strange looking "n").
@Evilgenius: alert('Yes... but nothing really happens. This comment box just takes input as plain ol' text... code is not executable. Nice try, but no cigar!!!') :-D
alert('TEST!!!')
This should give me an error message... no??
I'm still waiting for the REAL inaugural post. Will the real Slim Fruity please stand up?
Sweet. I AM HOLLERING BACK! WHERE'S MY DEDICATION PAGE? I'm much more deserving of one than that freak, Hodges. { Insert here: profanity and several spelling errors that Massa P's blog cops will catch. Ooooh, I'm sooooo scared. }
@Hodges: Ummm, didn't you read my "About" page? The part where I mention that if I had wanted you to see something, you wouldn't have to ask me for a login account or password? Love ya, right back. Remember, you're STILL special. A Hodges dedication page? Scary. :-D
Kewwl. Two thumbs up, but dude, you sure do ramble. Hey, where's my login and password? Where's the love? Where's the love? Also, where's the 'Hodges' page? I'm much more deserving of a 'dedication page' than an impoverished, 4-year old little girl from the Philippines.