On the HTML front: I just downloaded BlueGriffon WYSIWYG editor. (Win, OS X, Linux). I needed it on my Linux laptop.
I’m toying with the idea of, once again, starting a retro 1990’s style webring hosted on Webringo. This time it would be a broad niche like “Personal websites and blogs”. Also, I think I would need to pre recruit some people to be members.
I activated the replies page on my blog with the Typewriter theme. It works okay. Needs pagination. Also needs links to the conversation thread because context can be everything in a conversation. Capturing our timeline replies is a very good first step for Micro.blog hosted blogs.
Hah! Amazon just delivered the complete boxed set of Star Trek: The Next Generation on DVD.
I’ve only seen a couple of episodes of TNG when it first ran so I figure if I’m going to watch the new Picard series I better have some background.
Site Search Placement Experiment.
I’ve started an experiment with my Micro.blog hosted blog with site search. Previously, I had a site search form a...This blog has joined the Hotline Webring (code in the footer) because I still like webrings and I like this webring in particular. ramblinggit
Pro Tip: Don’t try to put a site search form in the MB blog header and have it look half way decent. I’m blaming CSS. I’m out of cuss words/phrases (never thought that would happen.)
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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.
Vivaldi.net the Underappreciated Blog Host
Vivaldi has upgraded it’s community portal at Vivaldi.net. At the community portal you can get a free blog without...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.
Running Linux on your smartphone: everything you need to know in 2020 | Tuxphones
Running Linux on your smartphone: everything you need to know in 2020 | Tuxphones This is a good article that shows how ...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.