Brad Enslen

I just joined the indieweb.social Mastodon instance.

Read: Google’s ads just look like search results now | The Verge. Methinks Google is getting a little desperate to keep revenues up.

Thousands of WordPress Sites Hacked to Fuel Scam Campaign | Bleeping Computer.

Following: Art is My Religion the personal blog of writer Rich Novotney as he discusses art of the written word, Art, authors, and stuff he likes.

“Baby Jabba” is trending on Twitter. Heh.

I really prefer blog themes that have a sidebar for my own blog. And a sidebar that I can add content to without editing the whole theme code or farting around with editing CSS. Just saying.

Spelling: Okay, I’m sick of this whole “ie” and “ei” spelling thing in English. Lets just make up some totally new single letter that stands for both “ie” and “ei” in words and be done with it.

I’m all for electric vehicles. I’m all for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. I’m not so sure about “self driving” vehicles.

There are way to many video streaming services.

The good part about nasty Winter weather days is I have an excuse to stay indoors and do Web things

Ritz Crackers are made in Mexico. WTF? Can’t we even make our own crackers in the US?

Earth: planet, infested with humans and Baby Yoda dolls.

If you have a monopoly or a near monopoly you ought to be taxed like a monopoly. Without loopholes.

Last night I had a dream about ghosts. Today, I bought 2 ghost story anthologies.

#winterreading

Somebody should test all the paywall online newspapers for how easy it is to cancel a paid subscription online and make a list showing which papers are easy or hard. Because I’m not paying until I know.

#onceburnttwiceshy

I think all my posts are on 10 - 30 minute delay before they hit the MB timeline.

Tonight (Fri) Rain 1 - 2 inches.

Sat. Rain. Half inch. Wind 20 - 30 mph.

Sat. Night Rain turning to snow. Snow late. Snow accumulating 1 - 3 inches. Winds could gust to 40 mph.

Midwesterners: Yawn.

If you ate too much at First Breakfast, it’s okay to skip Second Breakfast. Right?

#hobbitlife #hobbitculture

After reading all the ugliness on your normal Twitter timeline you should be able to switch to an emergency timeline filled with nothing but cute cat pics, cute dog pics and unicorns farting glitter. So your brain can heal. Just saying.

I have a theory that #indieweb #webmentions like we see on Wordpress, help excite Googlebot. Webmentions, between blogs encourage longer, more frequesnt replies/comments to a post. Googlebot responds to that added activity and text. Sample is limited tho.