My Very Own Blog Spot

...and here it is – welcome! I hope you like it – I’ve spent hours on this – very enjoyable hours though I must admit. Still trying to figure out how to get the paw prints in... ah yes, there we go and a pic of Angel the cat (the self-appointed keeper of computer, printer and whatever else happens to be on the desk) as well.

The impulse to do this arose from a project I had to do for an assignment. It was a PowerPoint project, an application I’d never attempted before. It wasn’t easy and during its creation I learned about animation, mixing a soundtrack and synchronization among other -tions and -ings I’d never encountered before. Then, after all the hours, days, weeks of effort that went into producing it, I wanted to share it with everyone.

Enter Ellie, known fondly to friends as neurotic_dog, and who recently began her very own blog, fittingly titled neuroticgrowls.  Ah yes, what an inspiration that was on a cloudy Sunday morning (and definitely highly recommended reading so go back and click on the link when you’ve finished reading this).

Obviously I needed a blog spot of my very own, the perfect vehicle for foisting my musings on friends worldwide. There was a link on Ellie’s site which invited me to set up on Blogger and voila! A mere eight hours later I had my own blog spot!

Eight hours, you may ask in some disbelief. Yes, well, there was the background colour to choose and those pesky birds had to go (they did eventually but don’t ask me how I did it – they were there one minute and then, pff, gone...), the selecting of fonts (styles, colours and size), the insertion of a second sidebar... you get the picture. Then it seemed a really nice idea to promote some of my favourite books and dvds by some of my favourite people and Amazon were offering to help so... run your cursor over the left sidebar (that’s the extra one I put in an hour or so before).

Now I just had to write a blog that would include my lovely PowerPoint presentation. I was about halfway through writing it when it occurred to me that it might be a good idea to find out how to embed it into the blog. A lovely site called Slideshare came to the rescue and they promised to be able to link to my soundtrack too with something they call a synchronization tool... but only if said soundtrack is an mp3 file, which it currently isn’t, and I can’t convert it with my current music editing program without investing in an upgrade and that’s not happening until sometime after payday (next Friday). Oh well, at least I can muse about setting up the blog spot.

So here it is, a work in progress to be sure but all mine – a blog spot of my very own!