Started during the Pandemic Lockdown and rolling on from shear inertia: It’s Frozen Pizza Friday! So guess what’s for supper tonight.
I searched for WordPress plugins for “quotes” thinking about quote-of-the-day. All the top returns were plugins for job-cost quotes. Commerce. Back in ‘00’s all the plugins would have been famous quote of the day sort of things. Thank you Web 2.0 for nothing.
Tonight’s supper: 2 little veggie burgers, some sort of vegetable, probably green, maybe another vegetable, not green.
What do people do when they can’t connect to the internet? Talk to each other? Read books? Stare into the sun until they go blind? Listen to right wing radio?
Storm went through. Comcast internet out for next estimated 12 hours. On emergency bridge. Life support nominal.
Time to go buy a new domain.
I’ve been hunting for an online notes solution for a long time. @ChrisAldrich has me interested in digital #Zettelkasten solutions. The two easiest seem to be Hypothesis or dedicate a WordPress instance using tagging. I like the WP solution.
I just remembered that I bought some chocolate ice cream. Muhahahaha!
Supper is looking more and more like healthy, nutritious, free range, corn dogs tonight. Or a couple of frozen burritos with a can of chili dumped over them. Decisions. Decisions.
You have two choices in tablets with cellular: 1. Apple’s Iron Walled Garden tablet that costs billions, or 2. a bewildering array of Google’s Android Spyware Special tablet brands. U R free to choose just bend over first.
I’m organizing my tech news into a folder on QuiteRSS feed reader. So far: Bleeping Computer News, The Register, The Verge, TechDirt. Those feeds seem like a good starter pack.
I’m thinking of murder mysteries. It’s 2022, does anyone still have a butler?
I still want at least 8 major English language web search engines with their own indexes. At least there are contenders forming now. Seirdy has the best rundown.
I got a haircut today. As I watched large chunks of my hair hit the apron thing I noticed most of it has gone beyond gray and onto old man white. Oh well, at least I still have some hair to cut. :)
Huge mega cities get super hero’s like Super Man and Bat Man. But what kind of resident super hero’s do small cities like South Bend, Indiana or Sioux Falls, South Dakota get?
Today: Submitted a URL to two small directories for inclusion. Maybe. One had a reCaptcha that did not confirm transmission so maybe not.
Got garbage bin to curb. Paid stack of bills and mailed same.
it’s quiet. I think everybody is melting.
What a world. What a world.
I got my 2nd Covid booster this evening. (4th shot total). I’ve had 3 Pfizer shots so this time I went with Moderna to mix things up.
I keep running across people who are members of Status.cafe. Kinda nice. Part specialized micro blogging social network with a forum attached, which is a nice touch. Popularity growing.
Yikes! Prices: Aldi brand steak sauce (like A-1) $1.09. Real A-1 brand $4.95 at Aldi. You can save a heck of a lot of money by going with the house brand.
Actually I'm testing linkblogging using Quill and Micro.blog. The question being will Quill and MB accept markdown links in the title.
Also, this is a good article one that every webmaster should read.
These are my impressions about the hosted blog service Mataroa.blog. Mataroa is a minimalist type of hosted blog somewhat on the same order as Write.as.
Mostly it's the look that is minimalist because the feature list is pretty good. I won't go through the entire list because you can see that at the link above.
That's just at the free level. The paid level adds the ability to use your own domain but get backups emailed to you regularly. Free is free and the paid level is only US $6.00 per year. (For now, that number has to eventually go up.)
Mataroa uses Markdown to customize your writing so there is no elaborate editor. You can post photos as well. I have no idea how much storage space you get, but photos are not the point of Mataroa as a blog host, text is. This is a place for people who want to write with the minimum of fuss. There is almost no friction standing in the way of you writing a post.
One downside is there is no site search. All blogs should have a site search. They need to add a site search.
I have to say, I’m impressed. You are not going get the rich and powerful feature set, syndication and community like you would with Micro.blog but if money is tight and/or if you just want to experiment with a personal blog Mataroa just might be for you.
I’m sitting here, pining for the Bronze Age.
Lizard people armed with French baguettes are coming to take away our pickup trucks.
Hey I just discovered that there is an official Micro Blog app for Android! I totally missed that. I must have been sleeping during class again. It’s nice and works well.