Success at (long) last! After at least 10 tries I finally got the picture of my dog to post from Flickr.

Week 2.5: Really this is week 3 but I haven't finished week 2 yet. I spent at least half an hour trying to get back into my blog. I still don't know how I got back in and I fear that next time I try it will be the same thing all over again. I wrote down all of the identifiers I used to get the blog account but nowhere did it specify which one was going to be "username." So, when I tried to get in this time I had to try them all and every one I tried I got an error message. Yet I'm in. And I looked at my profile and I now know which they call username but I am definitely not going to log out now and try it in case it doesn't work again.

I think these exercises are a good thing for us to participate in but the amount of time I have already spent on this blog is way way too much. I've had the blog experience and now I wish there were some more user friendly vehicle for recording the rest of my comments.

Week 2: It took me two days to set up the blog. The first day I kept getting error messages from Google saying to "retry in 30 seconds." That trick never worked and I finally ran out of time. The second day I was more successful--only one error message.

I'm disappointed in the options for making this look individual. If I am going to have a blog I'd like it to look distinctive, but the fonts are bland and the templates are blander. It also doesn't seem to handle a change in fonts well and I wonder where the graphic is that I thought I was uploading.

Week 1
Thing 2: 7 habits: My favorites are: Accept responsibility for your own learning; begin with the end in mind; and view problems as challenges.