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Tuesday 3 June 2008

I'm Miss Yoko aka Blogninja!

By Yoko on Tuesday 3 June 2008, 14:56

Don't hit me! I know, no posts since Saturday... I'm baaaaaaad :p


It's about blogging or more, blog designing and blog building.

Another Visa Journey member told me that she was not happy about her blog cause she don't know how to modify it.
She asked me for some helps.

So I signed up at her blog system and checked what I can do for her, using her main image, he colours and the blog template she used.
And I did that for her :


And as soon my Love saw me playing with photoshop and css, he asked me if I can work on a blog for him.

First I did that with gandi blog, like mine :

But, I figured out that's not fully customizable and adaptable. Cause gandi even if i love to blog with my gandi blog, doesn't allow you to customize you blog so much. Even if the blog solution, Dotclear, they use is fully customizable.
And Richard told me that the blog he already use is WordPress.

So I signed up at the WordPress website, and ... arggggghhhh. It's worse than Gandi, you can only choose some themes, but it's not fully customizable but if you pay, and even if you pay you can't do what you want.

Then I deed some search and found that I can install WorpPress solution on my own webserver... and I will be allow to do what I want.

And you know what? Now I have my webserver on gandi, and I already installed WordPress on it, and already worked on an existing Wordpress theme I found trough the web.

Well, for that one it's just and adaptation from an existing theme. I will work now on my own theme from scratch!


I also installed the Dotclear solution on my webserver and will work on it either.

And now my goal is to become an expert about Wordpress and Dotclear blogs... and about css too... and my other goal is to redo completely my photowebsite and ... my blog too.

...


You know what? I just keep me busy!!!

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Saturday 10 May 2008

French are stupid too ;)

By Yoko on Saturday 10 May 2008, 17:57

Hard to find a video with English subtitles... :p

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Friday 9 May 2008

Stop chewing!

By Yoko on Friday 9 May 2008, 10:50

I’m sitting in the metro. A woman just came in and sat in front of me. As I was lost in my book, I didn’t saw her face at start.

I saw first her feet which they are really cute, she got painted toes nails and she wears really nice stilettos.

You know, most of the time, when a woman crosses another woman who looks good, the competition start. She starts to inspect all, in a kind of the “error of taste” hunt, also to maybe steal some ideas.

Then, I began my inspection.

My glance goes up slowly. Nice legs, classic skirt just short enough, on her lap, a designer shopping bag. Awww, good taste, I wonder what she bought there.

My curiosity grew! Nice shirt too. I started being upset. Is she perfect?

And then I saw her face.

Is she pretty or not, I really don’t know.

She chewed conscientiously a maxi giga mega bubble gum or 20 of them. Her mouth an her cheeks are making weird moving shapes. She looks like a freak!!!
My guess is she was training for a doubles contest and she wanted to look like Elephant Man.

Oh My, what a contrast between her general look and her bubble gum face, and she was doing that opening her mouth.

Sometimes there are things that I can’t understand.

Girls, and guys too, you may chewing, there is no problem with that. But please… keep you femininity and your dignity.

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Thursday 8 May 2008

No smoking!

By Yoko on Thursday 8 May 2008, 18:05

They plays and old movie on the TV. A Marlene Dietrich movie.

Do you remember her?

She was a great symbol of femininity. She was that kind of woman every women would like to be, every men would like to have.
She was beautiful, she was distinguished, she was a "femme fatale".

Her amazing eyes masked behind the veil of smoke was heart killers! How many men would be damned themselves to kiss her lips? When she was smoking she was so hot, so sexy, so desirable... Her cigarette raucous voice gave shivers...

It was a time when smoking was normal. Better still, smoking was the "way to be". It was hype, it was fashion, it was hot and sexy, it was glam!

...

And now in 2008. How is it? It's still glamorous being a smoker?
Certainly not. Being a smoker start to be a real nightmare.

Every single day we can hear than smoking kills, than smoking is highly bad for the health, than the smokers will die in abominable sufferings...

So after all those years where we had no informations about the smoking dangers, after all those years when the tobacco's manufacturers hid all the chemicals which they put in the cigarettes to makes smokers more addicts.

What kind of solutions our governments give to the smokers? (I have to say, it's about the same in France and in the U.S.A)
Are they forcing tobacco's manufacturers to re-invest their benefits in "how to stop smoking research"? Are they giving smokers really effective medicals solutions?

To my knowledge, absolutely not.

The only solution I know they give at this time is "the smokers hunt", "the smokers discrimination".

Now, after having been glamorous, the smokers are bad, they are guilty. They are guilty to smoke and smoke out the nonsmokers.
Now it's forbidden to smoke everywhere, now it's start to be better being caviar addict than being a smoker.

Why they don't really help the smokers?
Imagine, that tomorrow all the smokers stop smoking, stop buying cigarettes... Where our governments will take the money they have right now with cigarettes taxes?

They will not help the smokers because they will lose billion.

You know that if I talk about that, it's because I'm a smoker... for years... 24 years exactly.
I'm not a bad person. I would like to stop. But... I can't. I already tried and I'll try again...

Just don't forget, smokers are not criminals, smokers are not bad and most of them wants to stop.

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Wednesday 7 May 2008

The writer blues

By Yoko on Wednesday 7 May 2008, 23:32

Architecting the words as an amazing labyrinth where everyone get lost in a daydream, warming hearts, making drugs looking obsolete and your souls deriving…

Getting lost myself in the labyrinth, never find the magical words and finishing in the white page dead end.

 Thank you my Love. You say that I’m a writer. You’re sweet like always.

But, I’mmmm nooooooot ;)

Maybe you may see me as a words player. As yes, I like to play with the words. Playing with words doesn’t mean that I’m able to build a story on pages.

Like a lot of peoples I’m writing a blog. OK, I use the verb writing because I do not see what else I could use…
But do you think really that writing a blog even if it’s not in my native language means that I’m a writer?

If yes, it means that we’re millions of writers.

I don’t want to break in that post all the bloggers hopes.

Hmmmm… but only some of them are talented. Only some of them are not writing a kind of teenager’s diary.

And like most of them, even if I get a lot of ideas to write some posts, I’m thinking that everything good is already wrote. I’m surely wrong, as every week we can see new books in stores.

STOP!

I promise next post will talk about something else than writing. :p

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Tuesday 6 May 2008

The Parisian's underground life

By Yoko on Tuesday 6 May 2008, 21:30

Or how I will share with you my idea of the day?

Paris is famous about a lot of things. Paris is the city of lights, the city of love, the city of fashion, the city of culture, etc. Paris is known all over the world about a lot of great things.

Hmmm, close your eyes and imagine...
a walk on the Seine's quays, on a sweet summer evening,  somewhere, someone is playing some "La Môme" songs on a accordion...

What a postcard picture!

What the world know less about Paris is the huge underground life of Parisians.

Maybe Wikipedia talks about the Parisian's underground life, but not in the same way I'll talk about.

Living in Paris may mean that you'll be a kind of member of a huge community and you'll have an every day underground life. Can you imagine something shared daily by 5 millions of peoples? You'll even have a member pass, the Navigo Pass. 'Cause yes the "Metropolitain", the Metro is the best way to move everywhere in Paris.

Taking the Metro can be compare as a jump in the 4th dimension.

Every day, like robots we traverse this maze of corridors and stairs and catch an often highly crowded train.

Every day, in a certain way, we share others people's life during a lot of time.
About 1 hour and half for me.

What can we do to not waste this time?

I saw peoples finishing or starting their night, eating pastries as a breakfast, doing their make-up, playing video games, working on laptops, students finishing homeworks or learning lessons, teachers correcting homeworks, peoples reading, writing, doing crosswords or sudoku, texting, listening music...

I use to read books or newspapers, if I have nothing to read, I'm listening music. If I have nothing to read and my I-Pod is out of battery... I will do something I do all the time. Thinking!

I'm a thinking person, I think all the time, about all and anything. Even if I'm busy... I'm thinking. And, since I start the blog, I think often about what I can post. I got a lot of ideas... that I'll forget very fast.

As i was writing my last 2 posts on an old notepad, I saw that taking my time, my posts are more complete... are better (OK, It's only my opinion)

Today, after my work, on my way to the Metro, I stopped to a store and I bought a nice notepad and a nice pen. And now I'll use my Metro time to put on the paper all my ideas!

Poor of you... you'll get so bored soon!

All that for that... I know... I'm silly

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