My daily diary of WTF is going on with Twitter. Somehow I now have 115 followers, but I’ll wager most of the new ones are spammy. Through December 14.
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Anything interesting that’s computer-related. New web sites, programming tricks…
Yeah, I know, it’s a shaggy partly ripped newspaper. But how did it get that way?
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This is an interesting concept for mapping. https://what3words.com/ It divides the globe into I-don’t-know-how-many 3 meter by 3 meter squares, and assigns each square a three-word set. What I find especially interesting is that it takes my mailing address, which looks like this: 00 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx, XX 00000 And encodes my location as…
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After a pain-inducing chat session with FIOS tech support, they let me know that I was entitled to a free router and range-extender upgrade. For a mere $10 shipping I could get two spanking new pieces of hardware that might well improve my experience.with a stronger WiFi signal than the old. Let’s see how it goes…
Leave a CommentA common problem with commercial printing can lead to some odd results. I used to move in those circles back in the day, when I was a print production manager for advertising agencies. When I went “on-press,” meaning I went to the printing plant to watch the sheets come off the press to make sure…
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Before I wrote about this, I wanted to give it a little time to settle in and see how it works. But after ~14 years I’ve finally pulled the plug with my former hosting service, MidPhase.
Leave a CommentHere’s a bit of 1902 footage of a unique kind of urban transit system, a suspended railway…
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I know I said I’d surrender. But as a service to the public I’m going to try and document one more attempt. This one presumes you’ve got access to WP-CLI and can do some PHP scripting.
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In which we look at other ways of doing images.
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The latest in my project of converting sites that were using a deeply deprecated plugin.
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The next challenge is sorting out how this plugin is used in a multisite installation.
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