A Fond Farewell & Thanks

My premature and precipitated exclusion from Jazz’s Exciles message board prevented me from saying my goodbyes.

I take the opportunity to send a message out to cyberspace in the hope it will reach those who have been my friends and acquaintances on the board.

To Welsh Gardener. It was always a joy to read your posts on the BBC and the present board; and a pleasure to exchange messages and banter. The flowers are for you. I hope the sun will shine on you in West Wales, so that your garden and life will flourish.

To the posters on the Technical/Computer board. Skull & Ian Mac, thanks for all of your advice. Reading your postings was both educational and entertaining. You increased my knowledge of computers tenfold. There were the odd disagreements on the forum, but this made the board even more gripping to read. I will never forget the Sunday morning when Windows XP decided to self-destruct, your advice and guidance brought me back from panic. To all the posters, may your life be free of: spam, viruses and spy ware.

Underdome, thanks for your PM, hope your music career flourishes. Every cloud has a silver lining, being excluded from the board will give me more time to meditate.

To the posters on the Sports board, especially those who posted on the 2007 RBS Six Nations Rugby Championship thread, your postings and humour made the life of this Wale’s supporter just about tolerable. I was looking forward to a World Cup Thread but now that is not to be.

Ponty Cyclops, Ant, I’m sorry I was prevented from responding to your Wale’s Rugby shirt joke, it cheered me up no end. I’m now going to devote my time to advising GJ so that Wales will get back on track.

Finally best wishes to all the past present and future members of Jezza’s Exiles message board. My only advice don’t criticise the Allotment/Gardening board it’s sacrosanct.

If a member of Jezza’s Exiles Message Board happens upon this blog, I would appreciate it if you would send a PM to those mentioned above, conveying my best wishes.

For the blog’s sake.

I’m later than usual writing the blog; I normally do it in the morning - wake up with an idea and send it into cyberspace while it’s nice and fresh.

But today I’ve been doing other things. To be honest I haven’t a clue what I've been doing - it was like walking blindfolded through a dark tunnel with the hope that there was a light at the end - and thank goodness there was, a light that is.

You see books on Computing for Dummies or Blogging for Dummies, well compared to me Dummies are geniuses. I switch on the computer and it makes a noise it shouldn’t or doesn’t make a noise it should and I panic - sweaty hands, racing pulse the lot. So to attempt the task of altering the appearance of the blog was, for me, equivalent to participating in an extreme sport activity. I also decided to try doing something to get my blog noticed by search engines.

Now while I’m three levels below “Dummy”, I’m not stupid, so I decided to seek help. Yesterday I left a message on the Blogger Help Group message-board “I’m so dumb I need a real idiot’s step by step guide”. Fortunately I had replies from Sherrykins and Panther.

Sherrykins she pointed me in the direction of her blog http://betabloggersresources.blogspot.com/ which directed me to a number of informative sites including one produced by Chuck http://bloggerstatusforreal.blogspot.com .

Panther listed a number of sites including:
http://betabloggerfordummies.blogspot.com/2006/11/how-to-submit-site-...
http://betabloggerfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/02/yahoo-site-authenti...

With the help of the information provided, I think, I’ve added a Google sitemap to my blog and the blog URL to Google’s index. Reading that you might think I knew what I was doing - nope - but I followed the instructions. Whether I’ve been successful only Mr Google knows.

I also, and I know I was successful because I can see the result, edited the Template HTML code to allow me to post a photo in the title.

Am I a computer genius or what? Nope