It's Not Rocket Science...

Every time I log on to Blogger to paste and upload some “writing” that I’ve already documented in another application because I’m too scared to click or use any of the complicated switches, knobs and options that Blogger has to offer – stuff like “Settings” and “Template” and “Whatever You Do Don’t Touch That Big Red F#ck-Off Button” – I complete my pasting/uploading business in short order and then get the hell out of there before any kind of hey-guys-look-at-the-techno-freak alarm goes off. But today I decided to take the bull by the horns and venture to dark, mysterious places I’d never been before. Like under the sink where all the cleaning products are kept. I think.

As promised last week, I have a ton of recent photos of my nephews and niece – the World’s Four Cutest Kids™ – but rather than paste them into one long post which would have you scrolling down till Christmas, I wanted to replicate something clever I’d seen on Lesley’s site; the flickr badge.

Creating the badge was relatively easy but then flickr presented me with literally “hunners” of lines of Klingon-like technobabble and casually suggested that I “simply paste” this into my website. After much time reading some “help” files, I worked out that I would need to delve into the dreaded “Template” and paste it there.

I don’t know if you’ve ever seen a film from the 70s called “Juggernaut” where Richard Harris has to defuse a load of bombs on a panic-stricken ocean liner (“Fallon is the champion!” clap-clap, clap, clap, clap…) but clicking on Blogger’s “Template” was a bit like opening up one of those cataclysmic megaton destructive devices. Lots of bells, whistles, coloured wires and whirling tapes, poised to bring the entire internet to its knees should I even breath in the wrong direction.

Anyway, long story short, I somehow managed to do it (I've no idea how) and if you’ve read down this far you should now be able to see the “badge” with the cute kids – encapsulated within its own smart white bordered box I might add – on the right hand side of your screen. Get your “ooohs” and “aaahs” at the ready and click away.