Hello World – That’s where I started “blogging” (very loose term when applied to me) at least a month or longer ago. You don’t even begin to know how humiliating it is to attempt to create a blog which is aesthetically pleasing, has great content, all the plugins are compatible and the widgets are all properly “hacked” into place – and fail miserably – why – because I have FORTY plus years experience in virtually all aspects of the computer industry.
Every waking hour I spend in this blog reminds me of Bill Murray in “Groundhog Day” – in the last 168 hours (close to 80 hours in this blog) I have spent most of my time trying to understand why my Gravatar (2 of them as required by wordpress – an admin can’t be a user – must have separate credentials) don’t appear as a user or as the administrator – I have temporarily given up on that one; 3 days on Onlywire – don’t know if it was coincidence or not – all my Onlywire problems went away when an upgrade was released and the Quick Start Guide documentation changed. I just spent a few hours carefully choosing and editing my categories and am waiting with baited breath to see if they appear when I publish my blogpost (they didn’t when I did a preview).
All the “killer keywords”, tags, permalinks, sidebar widgets and my opt-in box haven’t been touched – again – for another week.
On the bright side, I have gotten a lot of exercise in the last week; every time I sense that anger is about to win out over my frustrations and anguish when the 37th “fix” doesn’t work, I turn off the computer and go for a walk. It calms me down, especially when I think about (in a few years) slurping tropical drinks on my 40 foot catamaran in the US Virgin Islands.
So why am I telling the world about my problems ? Because my right brain keeps on creating ideas of how I can avoid this problem - stop blogging ! I have my friend Mark Hoverson to thank – his words to me were “Bob – you don’t need a blog – I don’t have a blog and look where I have elevated myself to in online marketing.”
As a very mature adult, I have seen computer systems documentation deteriorate to FAQ’s and “do it yourself” support. Gone are the days when a Software Program User’s Guide contained every single keystroke a user had to enter and why.
- gone are the days when published software had “programming conventions and standards”; now we have “spaghetti code” and “hacking” software(we used to call it debugging and patching the flawed code) is the rule, not the exception in the marketplace.
Whenever I think I have it tough, I think about the poor baby boomer or senior who needs income to live a decent life in these troubled economic times; and I have decided to do something about it.
Starting tomorrow I will design documentation which starts at how to turn the computer on… through basic and masters levels so that “life experienced” individuals can understand how to make internet marketing work for them without the agony of WordPress and Comdex.
I encourage any and all readers to leave comments !
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Bob,
Love your sense of humor on this subject. When you find something that makes you sing out, that’s where you should be. Empowering others empowers yourself in ways that will be far reaching.
Glad you have found your voice,
Val
Hey Bob,
Great thinking here — and such a fun read!
Much needed by me — as you can see my blog is “content ready” but still awaiting some tlc from me — lol!
I reckon I’d better subscribe to your blog right now!
Best,
~Linda