Finished reading: The Night She Died - Inspector Thanet Mysteries #1 by Dorothy Simpson 📚
Upcoming Film: Lancaster Skies
My first post got eaten so I’ll try this again. Upcoming Film: “Lancaster Skies” WW2 Bomber Command Mo...Interesting. I think Micro.blog ate a post of mine. That almost never happens.
Like: Return to the Open Web! vs Join the Open Web!
Like: Return to the Open Web! vs Join the Open Web! It makes me wonder how we can bring others along with us. The peopl...Starbucks and Me
I refer to Starbucks as “Fourbucks” because everything seems to start at about that price. It’s been y...There is no way to save a half written draft of a post in Micro.blog. So today’s task is find an easy text note software that will let me write a rough draft, save and come back later. I need it to work across many devices ans operating systems. So SimpleNote might work.
Fonix werked for me.
Yesterday, it got up to 54 degrees F. with rain here. This morning it is 9 degrees F. Happy Midwest in February.
Self Hosting Your Cloud Storage
Cloud Storage. I have my cloud storage all mixed up in 4 cloud providers: Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, Microsoft Live Win...I just got an email from Inoreader. New pricing and service levels. 150 feed cap for “Free” service which is still good. Still I might give Wordpress.com Reader a second look as my main RSS reader.
Micro.blog and Maintaining a Following Page
I’ve been pondering on how to make a blogroll/following page on Micro.blog and sort of weighing different approach...Stock Themes and templates in Micro.blog.
Is anybody using the new Arabica template on Micro.blog. By accident I switched to it for a little while and I think it&...Government meetings done. Box wine time.
I should start taking more photographs and posting them. I keep forgetting that my phone is a camera. Duh.
I should keep a log of changes and experiments when I am doing them on this blog. Maybe that’s what the wiki is for.
Zoinks! A refurbished iPhone X is still $769. That’s a heck of a lot of money for a refurbished phone.
Signed up for IntenseDebate which lets you sign in with your Wordpress.com ID and login which is nice.
I’m not going to try and edit Micro.blog themes and place the JS code in them tonight because if I screw my site up I’ll get all worked up and not sleep.
Some Contact Solutions for Micro.blog
Some email contact resources for Micro.blog. We don’t have CGI or Php for contact forms on Micro.blog, so if you ...Crossing the Rubicon file: Canceled my managed Wordpress hosting with Laughing Squid. They contract it out to Pressable (a division of Automattic) and were very good. No going back now.
Okay this is scary: somehow my analog quartz watch gained 15 minutes without my noticing it. Very weird.
Stuff I Still Need to Do on This Blog
Stuff I need to work on: Contact - this could be either a contact form or encrypting my email address in such a way th...Stepping Away from Facebook
I just deactivated my Facebook account. I did not delete it (yet) I figured I would see how this goes for a few months. ...Generation Gap: When I think of “The Avengers” I’m referring to John Steed and Emma Peel. But younger people are thinking and referring to some sort of super heros I believe.
Currently reading: The Night She Died by Dorothy Simpson 📚
Has anyone tackled putting contact forms on Micro.blog yet?