@odd There are a bunch of Stumbleupon replacements listed there that I want to investigate when I get time. Back in the old days Stumbleupon was great fun for finding sites.
@odd There are a bunch of Stumbleupon replacements listed there that I want to investigate when I get time. Back in the old days Stumbleupon was great fun for finding sites.
@adders I hope things get better for you. I think they will, because demand is building and demand for change is building except we are all on a ship in a dense fog, unable to see and in uncharted waters, so moving dead slow, foghorns sounding and hoping we don't ram something or hit a reef.
I do like your idea to take the time to explore close to home, be it odd parts of the high street or even footpaths unwalked.
@odd That was a good essay. There is a movement of retro webmasters that are encouraging "surfing the web" again. Here is a guide to resources and starting points.
@jean Wow, when you say you are going to move you don't mess around! I hope your new place brings you peace and joy and that the person in the next flat does not take up tuba lessons. :-)
@cambridgeport90 Websites opting out of FloC are not keeping or banning Google from indexing the website, so the web pages within the website will still appear and rank normally within the Google organic listings.
The only thing this does is to tell Google not to include your webpages for sorting people into cohorts for Google's own advertising network purposes.
@johnjohnston I would be in favor of that approach because so many WP webmasters will never hear about the plugins.
The rule here is that everything Google does or proposes is for the net benefit of Google not us. I guess this wouldn't be so bad ifthey didn't have either a monopoly or a duopoly over so much of the Internet. And it's not just the monopoly, it's the slime. :-)
@Cheri Oh that is a very good list. I have to admit, the Luddite me was real happy I could just install a Wordpress plugin, activate it and I'm done. No mucking about editing code or themes.
@antonzuiker I'm not sure what happened to my copy, but when blogging was just getting started, I bought a copy. Fantastic book.
@jack Yeah. I used to like the challenge, now I just want it to work.
@yorrike I tried and failed to learn French. How can a language that sounds so beautiful when spoken have so many evil vowels?
@Cheri Great news! Congrats! I bought it forthwith. You are rockin that word processor.
@Ron I don't remember the Salk vaccine. I do remember as a pre-schooler seeing kids 8 - 10 years older than me (guessing) with a big metal leg brace and crutches that I'm pretty sure had polio. I also remember learning about iron lungs and the Salk vaccine in grade school. Polio was nasty.
I do remember some sort of vaccination drive as a kid but I think it might have been Smallpox. Not real sure.
About 5 years ago, I went and got the shingles vaccine, pnuemonia vaccine and mumps/measles vaccine (one each year) as a preemptive measure. Cheap insurance for my old age. A lot cheaper than even one night in a hospital.
I did have a sore arm for shot #1. Shot #2 I got the mild chills for two days and felt tired and a bit fuzzy headed. I could function but just felt punk for a bit. All normal now.
@Ron Good man! Your experience matches my own. They were only doing 60 yrs and older so there wasn't much of a line. They let us play musical chairs as we moved forward! Same for my mom's first shot. But in the 30 days between the first and second shots Indiana opened it up to everyone over 16 yrs. So when I wheeled her in there was a longish moving line for all the young folks (anyone younger than me is "young") but they were moving people through.
I'm glad you got your vaccination I'm sure it was a relief for both your wife and your friend that at least you were safe. It was a great relief to me to get my mother in. It lifted one more worry off my shoulders.
@yorrike I have those mental glitches on some days too. I'm blaming Vowels - all of them.
@stickmandiaries @jean Lewis is one of my favorites. For foreign language series I recommend Maigret starring Bruno Cramer, Montalbano, The Undertaker, Murder by the Lake. All episodes are available on Mhz Choice which is worth it just for Maigret and the various Montalbanos. Here is the Mhz blog: mhzchoiceblog.com
@jean Thank goodness somebody else remembers them and it wasn't just a figment of my imagination! I was getting weird lockdown cornbread cravings over the last year which made me remeber them. I think they were around in the mid 1960's as near as I can figure.
@stickmandiaries That was a great series. I hesitated in watching it after seeing the original series, but they did a great job.
@Cheri Well said.
@kimberlyhirsh Congratulations!
@Cheri Landshark SNL
@JohnPhilpin @gpittman @pratik I think they have rolled out the block editor on Wordpress.com sites. I don't know how long they will continue to support the classic editor on Wordpress.org sites. All this has me looking at b2evolution for the future on any new projects because one install can give me multiple blogs.
@jack Oh that is sweet.
@stickmandiaries Welcome back!
@ChrisJWilson It's sad letting go of things, but at least somebody will get enjoyment out of it. Olympus made some nice, solid cameras.