Looking Back for All-time Blogging

I started blogging in fall 2009. The table shows how number of articles and word count vary from then till the end of 2019. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Creating a YouTube Playlist Really Fast

In 2012, I wrote my previous blog articles WRT creating YouTube playlists with YT newbies in mind. My newer method streamlines the process to minimal steps and window hopping. What prompted me to revisit creating YT playlists? Two incentives: Replicating a set of cartoons on a VHS tape that didn't list the entire contents, and wanting to create recent thematic playlists for videos I'd created over time. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Halloween Music Bakers Dozen Matter

YouTube playlist for this article, playlist compilation article

Near the end of October, I published Baker's Dozen Halloween YouTube Links, a compilation of Halloween songs. One of my fellow tech writers responded to my blog post with a humongous list of video and audio clips. Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2012/11/halloween-music-bakers-dozen-matter.html and comment there, please.

Baker's Dozen Halloween YouTube Links

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My list of 13 YouTube videos for the Halloween season has classic favorites and some obscure ones. I have also compiled the list into a YouTube playlist. Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2012/10/bakers-dozen-halloween-youtube-links.html and comment there, please.

Creating a YouTube Playlist PDQ

Use repeatable steps with minimal keystrokes for creating a YouTube playlist—my PDQ (pretty darn quick) method. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Dreamy Music

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Songs with the word "dream" conjure mind wanderings. Difficult to be asleep AND think or mentally sing songs about dreams and dreaming. One song that could fit the bill might be one about daydreaming, such as "Daydream Believer" by the Monkees.

Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2012/08/dreamy-music.html and comment there, please.

Creating a YouTube Playlist

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Create your own YouTube video playlist using the instructions that I provide. You can also download my .png file with tiled screenshot images. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

YouTube Playlists of My Music-themed Articles

This article is a compilation of YouTube playlists for articles that I have written and cited music YouTube links. The entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2012/02/youtube-playlists-of-my-music-themed.html includes the link to my YouTube channel and also a table with links to my articles and their YouTube playlists.

Family Matters

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Look in on song titles, artists, and song lyrics with family role names. Includes a couple of etymology links. Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2011/12/family-matters.html and comment there, please.

Wordle Word Doodle

Create your Wordle Word Doodle clouds. Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2011/09/wordle-word-doodle.html and comment there, please.

MnM--Munch n Music

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If you like munchin n music, this article is for you, with lots of youtube links to whet your appetite. Read the article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2011/05/mnm-munch-n-music.html and comment there, please.

Post-TDay Travel--Part 3 of 3

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This article is the third of three parts of the Thanksgiving week travel theme. In the first article, I wrote about songs about planes, trains, and cars, based on the movie title Trains, Planes, and Automobiles. Part 2 is about water travel songs—boats, surfboards, submarines, ….

This article covers the rest of the travel modes I can think of. I've listed songs, artists, lyrics sites, and video sites (if possible). Take another trip down memory lane with the third batch of songs I’ve compiled. Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2010/12/post-tday-travel-part-3-of-3.html and comment there, please.

Post-TDay Travel--Water Water Everywhere

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This article is the second of three parts about songs and travel, originally based on the movie title Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Take a trip down memory lane with songs I’ve compiled that feature travel and water, one major travel method not in the movie title. Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2010/11/post-tday-travel-water-water-everywhere.html and comment there, please.

Turkey Week Travel--Planes, Trains N Cars

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Planes, Trains & Automobiles, which came out in 1987, stars Steve Martin and John Candy. Take a trip down memory lane with songs I’ve compiled that feature the movie's travel means. Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2010/11/turkey-week-travel-planestrains-n-cars.html and comment there, please.

Greater Less Fewer More Thans--More or Less

I've written thoughts on "greater than", "less than", "fewer than", "more than", more or less. Please read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2010/06/greater-less-fewer-more-thans-more-or.html and comment there. Thanks.

Bad-Prose Rants from Lady Wawa

This is my technical communicator parody (abbreviated) of Lady Gaga’s monster hit “Bad Romance”. Her Youtube video is approaching 200,000,000 views. For related videos and lyrics, do Google searches. Note: Lyrics accuracy varies among sites. Lyricsmode.com, which I used for most of my research and initial lyrics, had the best accuracy contrasted with other lyrics sites.

Bad-Prose Rants from Lady Wawa

Uh oh uh oh oh oh no no no no no no,
Your doc seems pretty poor.
…

[Read entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2010/04/bad-prose-rants-from-lady-wawa.html.]

Pronunciations Heck with Hermione and Homage

As my occupation (technical writing) is more involved with the written rather than spoken word, I often trip over pronunciations of words that I read rather than speak, particularly non-English names. But even with a name common in England consciousness, one gives me problems in particular—Hermione …

[Read entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2010/03/pronunciations-heck-with-hermione-and.html.]

Technical Communications Means

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Telephone and mail correspondence—mostly referenced in songs, movies, and a few TV shows are the technical communications means I'm talking about. At the time of those media release, they reflected the prevailing technology for non-f2f interactions. Back then, letters did not reach recipients within seconds, older phone calls person-to-person required manual dialing on a rotary dial (woe if numbers were 8s, 9s, or zeros and your dialing finger slipped), and there was no Caller ID nor answering machine. Cheap mass mailing? Fuggedaboutit!…

• Songs that Feature Letters
• Songs that Feature Phones
• Movies that Feature Phones and Letters
• TV Shows that Feature Phones

[Read entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2010/03/technical-communications-means_09.html.]

A Convenient Spinach-Cheese Taco

In November, I had written about a convenient quiche that required only five ingredients. The convenient food item this time around is a spinach-cheese taco that requires only three items—really convenient and inexpensive for road warriors, vacationers, other travelers, relocatees, and folks at home. The only items required are …

[Read entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2010/01/convenient-spinach-cheese-taco.html.]