Rottweilers Ate My Laptop

Rottweilers. Computers. Cameras. World Domination. Not necessarily in that order.

Rottweilers.
Computers. Cameras.
World Domination.
Not necessarily in that order.

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Search terms again!

April 2, 2010 by kathi

Every so often, I like to look at the list of searches that have lured people to this blog. Some of them make sense, and others make no sense at all.

li hing mui margarita: This one surprises me only because most people spell it correctly. Or maybe that shouldn’t surprise me, because you probably wouldn’t search for it unless you’d had one and knew how tasty they are. I had one search that included “Chicago” in the string. I know I posted that I hadn’t found one here in Chicago yet, but you know something… that reminds me that I’ve been meaning to check one place that should have it… Roy’s Restaurant. And… it is in fact listed on the Chicago menu! I’ll have to call to confirm, and if available, this might require a downtown trip, as much as I usually tend to avoid the downtown area aside from work.

why does my rottweiler sit crooked: If I knew the answer to that one, we would not lose points in competition for crooked sits, now, would we?

rottweiler fonts: My professional background includes a lot of years as a typographer, but this still made no sense to me. I asked Freya and Axe what “their” fonts are, and they just looked at me as if I’d lost my mind. Their kennel and advertising fonts are the Fontdinerdotcom family from Font Diner and the Futura family designed by Paul Renner (we use the Adobe Type 1 version). Oh! The original inquiry does make sense once you see this: If Fonts Were Dogs. No Rottweiler, though!

(NaBloPoMo | April ’10: 2 of 30)

Filed Under: Blogging and Social Media Tagged With: li hing mui margarita, NaBloPoMo, search terms, typography

Give me news, real news, or at least pretty pictures

March 28, 2010 by kathi

Even though Freya didn’t seem to be as sore this morning as she was yesterday, we skipped today’s trial, and Rottweiler wrestling and chase games in the yard were disallowed for another day. That should help her get back to 100%, at least physically, before our next class. We still need a lot of work on attention under heavy distractions.

Since we skipped the trial and cancelled all Rottweiler contact sports for the day, there was plenty of time to go online and find things to complain about. I have complained a few times in the past about the faux “news” from stupid Facebook apps filling up the “news” feed.

So I just want to say one more thing about that. There is one individual that I keep as a Facebook “friend” for only one reason. This person adds just about every new Facebook application, stupid or not, seemingly almost the minute it is released. Now, you would think that would make me not want that person as a friend, and in general, that would be true.

However. In this case, I am using said app addict as my early warning system. The minute this person sends out a “news” item from a new application, I can immediately block the app and never be bothered by it again. Or at least until Facebook breaks itself yet again.

See, everyone has a purpose. Sometimes, their purpose is just not very grand.

Oh, and if you’re wondering if you are that person? If you’re interested enough in my life to read my blog, and interested enough in your own life to post things other than just what the apps post for you … you are almost certainly not that person.

(NaBloPoMo | March ’10: 28 of 31)

Filed Under: Blogging and Social Media, Rottweilers Tagged With: dog training, Freya, NaBloPoMo, stupid Facebook apps

Declaring myself ineligible

November 27, 2009 by kathi

I did manage to make it through last year, but it’s just not happening this year. I’m not great at getting online on any kind of timetable when on vacation, and particularly not blogging and tweeting.

Oh, well! Congratulations to all NaBloPoMo’ers who are on the way to victory!

(NaBloPoMo | November ’09: FAIL | 75% Challenge: 270 of 274)

Filed Under: Blogging and Social Media Tagged With: NaBloPoMo

Am I (or my blog) invisible?

November 6, 2009 by kathi

NaBloPoMo’s blogrolls are listed by category as of this month. This is a new development, and I don’t think it’s a bad thing. While there is a set initial list of categories, participants can suggest categories to be added in future months. So I was not too put off to see that neither of the primary categories into which Rottweilers Ate My Laptop would naturally fall (Pets/Animals and Technology, in case it is not obvious as I think it is) was included in the initial batch.

However.

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve considered signing up for a few other blog network social whatever things. None, count ’em, not one of the ones I happened upon have included a Pets/Animals or Technology category. All right, it wasn’t a huge number, but four out of four still seems a little odd to me.

So. Am I invisible? Is my blog invisible? Or was I just unlucky enough to stumble on some sites that really don’t want my kind in their network? “Get away, you horrible IT person who also participates in dog sports! We don’t want your kind around here! We only want mommybloggers and crafters and celebrities and stuff!”

More than 50% of the blogs in my feedreader are animal-related or technology-related, so I’m more surprised than anything. Even if my blog is invisible, which it very well could be, several of the blogs I read in those categories are widely read, known to the general public, and definitely non-invisible.

Oh, I did sign up for NaBloPoMo (repeating the obvious, sorry), but not for any of the others just in case they really didn’t want my kind.

(NaBloPoMo | November ’09: 6 of 30 | 75% Challenge: 251 of 274)

Filed Under: Blogging and Social Media Tagged With: NaBloPoMo

So many online places… so little time

November 2, 2009 by kathi

A couple of days ago, I noticed a Photobucket placeholder image that was a little different than the one we’ve all seen that appears whenever an item stored on Photobucket has been moved or deleted. This one said “Account inactive” in red text, followed by “[username]’s account has been inactive for 90 days.” It has been close to 90 days since I logged in to my own Photobucket account, so I went to check in on my own files.

I found this in the Photobucket FAQ:

Why were my linked images deactivated?

If you do not log into your Free account within a 90-day period (three months), Photobucket deactivates your linked images on other websites. These linked images will be reactivated when you log into your account.

Important! If you do not log into your account within a 365-day period, your account will also be deactivated. If you go Pro, your account and linked images to third-party websites will remain active for the duration of your Pro subscription.

Ooookay. Good to know. I don’t know whether email notifications of the policy change were sent out or not, just that I do not remember getting one. I’m not upset, because everything I have on Photobucket (or Flickr, or YouTube, or Facebook, or… anywhere) also lives on a CD, DVD, thumb drive, the giant-ass external hard drive, and/or the internal hard drive of one or more computers. Hey, I didn’t say I was super organized about my data. But I do back it up somewhere, even if I’m not always 100% sure where. It just makes me wonder how often I should check in on my semi-dormant online places, or whether I should dump some of them completely.

Speaking of dumping online places, back in September, I completely left the VZones virtual worlds where I had been a member for over five years. I spent a fairly large amount of time there when I was a member (in fact, I originally joined to have something fairly time-consuming to occupy idle moments on days when my husband was at the firehouse), but strangely enough, I don’t find myself missing them at all.

I’m not sure whether it’s even worth caring about, because you can delete almost all of your personal information before quitting, but there are sure a lot of places, mostly forums, that do not physically delete your account when you quit. I am guessing they have to keep the member count artificially inflated to keep the advertisers happy. There are no technical reasons to prevent you from deleting an account from the database that I know of. So yeah, your accounts won’t be consecutively numbered any longer, but that doesn’t — or shouldn’t — actively screw up anything.

Just going through my bookmarks, I can see a bunch of places that I don’t visit much any more. I’ll really have to decide whether they should be dumped permanently.

(NaBloPoMo | November ’09: 2 of 30 | 75% Challenge: 247 of 274)

Filed Under: Blogging and Social Media Tagged With: NaBloPoMo, online places

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