{"id":5778,"date":"2019-10-01T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=5778"},"modified":"2026-01-15T19:20:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:20:43","slug":"who-would-have-thought-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=5778","title":{"rendered":"Who Would Have Thought….."},"content":{"rendered":"
\nWho would have thought that building a website could be that complicated? Well, certainly not me!! OK, I\u2019ve had a website since 1996. In fact, I\u2019ve had several websites over the years, when products were just listed for viewing and shopping carts weren\u2019t a necessity. I actually built a few of these sites, myself, using basic HTML and other designers build a few more, to show them as examples of their work.<\/div>\n
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Thoughts on the complexity of life!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\nThings, as always, became more sophisticated (read complicated) and I needed a shopping cart. I found an inexpensive web designer who created a site, in something called, oscommerce. I loved it! Unfortunately this designer decided to go back home, sigh! I then went on-line to look for another designer \u2013 very scary. I found a woman with an Australian accent, who was born in Russia and lived in Brooklyn. What could possibly go wrong!!<\/div>\n
\nWell, her initial quote was $2,000.00 to $3,000.00. The site ended up costing me $7,000.00 and I still had to load all the products back in, because \u2013 you guessed it \u2013 something went wrong. Sigh! Now, I have had this site for 11 years, so, in spite of some \u201cquirks,\u201d it has worked for the most part.<\/div>\n
\nEnter Google. Google has decided to make the world, or a least the cyber world, a better place. It has demanded that all sites have a security certificate. I have always had a security certificate, but Google has decided it doesn\u2019t like my oscommerce site for, what I am told is, \u201cold code.\u201d Time to build another site.<\/div>\n
\nFortunately I had been working on a WordPress site for sometime now and all I had to do was finish it. Sounds simple enough. \u201cSimplicity, thy name is not code!\u201d However, once mastered, code, as WordPress likes to say, can be poetry. In an earlier life, I taught English in High School. Poetry can come back to haunt you, as in a favourite line from e.e.cummings \u2013 \u201cPity this busy monster manunkind, not.\u201d<\/div>\n
\nAnd in case you wanted the entire poem \u2013 <\/div>\n
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pity this busy monster, manunkind,\n\nnot. Progress is a comfortable disease:\nyour victim (death and life safely beyond)\n\nplays with the bigness of his littleness\n--- electrons deify one razorblade\ninto a mountainrange; lenses extend\nunwish through curving wherewhen till unwish\nreturns on its unself.\n                          A world of made\nis not a world of born --- pity poor flesh\n\nand trees, poor stars and stones, but never this\nfine specimen of hypermagical\n\nultraomnipotence. We doctors know\n\na hopeless case if --- listen: there's a hell\nof a good universe next door; let's go\n\nE. E. Cummings<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
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\nWell, I\u2019m not about to go next door, just yet. Here is our new site – infiknit.ca<\/a> – and I plan to add e-patterns from Queen Anne\u2019s Lace, downloadable stencils for needle felting and some other \u201cstuff,\u201d as it becomes available.<\/div>\n
\nHave an awesome day!!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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