Thing 1. Setting up my blog

This was an easy one. The hardest thing, actually, is thinking about what to write. There are so many bloggers out there, discussing important things, that blogging on a series of lessons seems, well, trivial. So--to make it easy to think about what to write--I'll just settle in and do what I'm supposed to. It's a learning experience, after all, an experience. Empirical. Later, I'll move on to the important stuff.

Ok, setting up the blog was easy. That avatar bit was problematic, though. For one, I've had sour experiences with Second Life--slow loading and response, poor tutorials and heaven help you if you leave that intro-island before you know the basic stuff like making your avatar sit down. And I always feel a bit of a fool with the choice of avatars one gets from Second Life or Yahoo or anywhere: do they all have to look like surfers, mallrats, grad students or characters out of Juno? I'm s-o-o tired of spiky hair and little goatees. But, anyhow, I created one. But couldn't figure out to paste the avatar code into the blog's html. So, sorry, no avator yet for In a Chilly Place.