It’s harder than you might think to come up with an alliterative title for an “odds and ends” type of post on a Tuesday. “Tuesday this and that” didn’t have the right ring. I tried to find something using the words for Tuesday in either German, Dienstag, or Italian, martedì, but those didn’t work out well (Dienstag detrius or Martedì mishmash, anyone? So, in the end, I went with “Tuesday Tips” for the want of anything else. So, here are the tips:

Tip #1: The first order of business is about commenting on the blog.  I’ve been getting emails that indicate that posting comments on the blog doesn’t seem to be working properly anymore. My mother noted that it takes a looooooong time after you click the “post” button before the page refreshes and shows you the final post, and I tried that today and she’s right. You really have to wait before the comment gets posted.  So, FWIW, I pass this tip along to you: if you’re trying to post a comment, don’t close the “Submitting Comment”  window until after you see the blog post page refresh with your comment listed at the bottom of the comments area.

Tip #2: However, if the page times out and you get an error message, as apparently sometimes happens, that indicates that there’s another problem going on, which I will attempt to track down.  If you try to post the comment again, it might work the second time. However, if it still doesn’t work, skip to Tip #4.

Tip #3: Entering a longer comment appears to be pushing the “post comment” button off the screen, which means you then can’t post the comment. I’m not sure why this happens.  However, long comments in general should work, as long as you can see the “post comment” button. Until I figure out the cause of the problem, try splitting the comment into two shorter ones, so that you can still see the “post comment” button.

Anyway, to get to the bottom of these problems, I will need to do some behind-the-scenes fiddling with the software that runs the blog, but I won’t have time to do that until next week.  I’m slated to do my photography workshops for teens at the German-American Institute on Saturday, so I will need to turn some attention this week to preparing for that. In the meantime, I hope the first 3 tips will work so that you’ll be able to post a comment. However,

Tip #4: If you’re still having trouble posting a comment, contact me by email instead.  If you don’t have another email address for me, use this one, replacing the “at” with a the symbol: pilimbe at clfotonline.com

Tip #5:  As today’s final tip, here’s something a bit different from the other ones: a few more photos of the tip of the oar seen from that ride on the rowboat I posted about last week. A tip by another definition…

Enjoy. 😉