Category Archives: blogging

virtual friends

21 Wednesday Nov 2007

Posted by in blogging, culture, friends, nablopomo

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Are they for real?

I’ve never been a ‘group person’ , nor someone who likes to surround herself with lots of casual friends. Yet I seem to have acquired quite an assortment of very interesting ‘virtual friends’ over the past few years. Some of these friends I’ve met in person, others I’ve only been in contact with on blogs & forums, by email or on IM chats. Oh, and sometimes on Skype, which is cool – hearing someone’s voice seems to make them feel more like you know them… somehow.

These days I have far more virtual friends than RL friends, which I think has to do with the wider variety of personalities available when you are speaking to people all over the globe rather than, say, just in Sevilla. My RL friends think this is odd.

What do you think?

slide show

12 Monday Nov 2007

Posted by in blogging, nablopomo, photos

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I saw this yesterday over on The Generator Blog when I went to look for the Bob Dylan thing (I’d also seen it over at alji’s a few months ago) and decided to make a slide show to put on the front page of my viajando travelblog. It sure helped with my dilemma about what should go on the front page, but I wish there was an option not to have the various buttons on it, especially the ‘More’ one.

~ Slide Show Generator ~

az’s travelblog

07 Wednesday Nov 2007

Posted by in blogging, nablopomo, photos, spain, trips

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Yeah yeah, I know . . . another blog!!!

But I was looking at my sadly abandoned and neglected trips page this afternoon and thought it might be more interesting to have everything together in one place, kind of like I did with the sevilla tapas page, moving it all over here.

The main ‘problemita’ is that the travelblog is going to have way more photos than the tapa blog – and there is no way of doing bulk uploading of photos on WordPress. Which turns uploading a photo album into a most tedious and arduous task (especially like earlier today when I uploaded and posted 58 photos !!! and then found out they were all the wrong size and had to do it all over again!) f_wah.gif

Anyhow, there is only one category even somewhat set up so far – the Barcelona one. I’ve transferred the Barcelona blog post over from here, which talks about the trip – though it still needs to be edited. And there will also be different ‘albums’ (much like how I set them up on Fotki) on separate posts. The only Barcelona album up at the moment is my favourite one, with photos of Casa Batlló. But Nog says 58 photos on a blog post is maybe too much and I should think about editing them down. What do you think?

~ Viajando ~