Sometimes such a simple thing will make you feel incredibly stupid. Like starting a blog. You know those click-through banner link things (like for Technorati and other blog portals) normal people have on their blogs? They shouldn’t be a problem to stick up there, should they? Well, they aren’t to most people. But then again, as I am figuring out, I am not most people.

Banner link-things vex me. I’ve read all kinds of postings how to do them, and somehow the information doesn’t quite match up with what I see when I go in to post on my blog. I think technology makes these leaps forward about oh… every minute or so. If you step out to take a walk, when you come back the technology is suddenly incomprehensible. Instructions are given to people with the assumption of a certain knowledge base. Basically, techie people are assuming the user has been keeping up with the minute-by-minute advances. In my case, this assumption is wrong. I feel like a second grader being dropped into the middle of a graduate computer class at Harvard.

I blame my Luddite-ness on my husband. (See my book How To Make Your Life Suck, Chapter One, Avoiding Accountability for tips on how to blame others for your problems.) For twenty years, when I ran into a problem with my computer (which when I tried to do anything other than using Word or send an email), I would go “FRANK?! Could you come in here? I don’t get this! This f**king thing is f**ked up!” And Frank would dutifully come in and magically make my computer work.

So now I know nothing and I started a blog and have a website. Which seems extremely short-sighted on my end right now.

The guy who built my website, Justin Knupp, is going to try to help me with this link thingy problem.

I pity him.