• Theresa May has suffered another shattering loss in parliament after lawmakers voted against her Brexit deal by 391 to 242.

• Lawmakers have been promised another vote on Wednesday, in which they can decide whether the UK should crash out of the EU without a deal.

• If that, too, is rejected, parliament could then vote on whether to request a Brexit extension.

• The United Kingdom is due to leave the European Union in 17 days.

Get the extension … go back to the people … this is the deal …. up or down.

There’s that word popping up again. As WP launches G and the world at large talks about how they hate it and they want a simple editor to use for their; post, article, photography, journal, chronicle ….

No of course they don’t they say content.

good name that … who did put the con into content?

Asking myself why I hadn’t upgraded to 1Password7.

Because subscription I reminded myself.

36 dollars per year IF billed annually.

I have used since v 3 … I have had v 6 since Jan 2016 ( I upgrade asap for good valuable products).

Under subscription that would have cost me $90 to date … minimum - round about double what I paid.

That is a price increase that I see as gouging.

I am not anti subscription … I am for fairness. I mean - I pay that for Bear, more for Ulysses … so it isn’t that … under the old system existing customers got rewarded for loyalty.

Have I missed something?

For the past two months, I have been running blottings.philpin.com in parallel with a free wordpress site. All has been working fine, so this morning I moved the prior three months of that site to john.philpin.com - perfect.

Doubtless some odd css cleanup as I find them - but random testing says no point in going through it all.

SO .... about that Wordpress site ... well the newest relevant post in there is now 2015 - and the oldest May 2012 ... time to wander through and [see if these posts do in fact provide context](https://blottings.philpin.com/who-are-you-just-in-time-advice) ... or is just garbage.

Wish me luck!

I wondered back then if some people were above the law (spoiler alert - they seem to be)

According to Wikipedia …. about three weeks later he resigned.

”Stumpf stepped down as CEO and Chairman of the board on October 12, 2016.[19] In February 2018, Janet Yellen, on her last day as Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (2014-2018), approved a strongly worded critical letter to Stumpf to emphasize his failures as Chair of Wells Fargo board of directors. The letter, signed by Michael Gibson, Director of the Division of Supervision and Regulation, cited Stumpf’s complicity in ignoring the bank’s poor risk management programs, and failure to initiate any serious investigation into its sales practices.

And since then donuts.

I guess he’s safe now - or does anyone know any different?

That day you walk into a coffee bar with a big beautiful Espresso Machine behind the cashier.

“A latte please.
Sorry?
“A latte”
Cross talk behind the scenes asking someone else if they know what I was talking about.
A third person enters the scene ….
How can we help?
“A latte please.”
She turns to the two young kids …
Latte … It’s a coffee drink …
Oh … never heard of that … thank you.
Third person turns around and starts to make the drink … The coffee appears and she disappears behind a curtain, to emerge three minutes later with one of those ice blended abominations.
“No. sorry, I wanted a Latte.”
So you’ve changed your mind?
“No. Not at all. I have wanted a Latte since I came into the store.”
She turned around and made one.
It really is rather nice … But what did they THINK I was talking about?

VoiceMail: This is BofA ... please call us at your earliest convenience, we believe your card has been compromised.

I logged on to ‘free up’ the situation - usually works - but no - please call this very specific number.

I do - I am on hold for over 20 minutes - I know - I can see.

Eventually my call is picked up.

I identify myself.

“Before we get going, I know it isn’t your fault, but I would like to point out that I have been on hold for over twenty minutes.”

Snaps back - “Well that shows you how busy we are.”

“Oh - good to know” - in my mind.

“Well I said - you have stopped my card because of possible fraudulent activity, which I can’t resolve through your web site, so essentially you are asking me to call you - because you have stopped my card and then failing to provide a reasonable response time to help me - a customer - solve your problem.”

“Do you want to get this solved?”

I moved on. Five minutes later, all was confirmed that yes - the purchases I made with the card are indeed my purchases - you will note that I have bought from these enterprises in the past …. etc etc …

Deaf Ears.

“Your card is good to go.”

Hang Up.

Ok - and thank YOU for being my credit card company - I say to a ‘dial tone’ (remember those kids?).

Thirty minutes later the card was refused.

Not having another spare half hour today, I just tried to log on. This is what I got.

Says it all really.

Yes - the Internet is working - that is how I managed to post this!!

Back in the day when I was using Dave Winer’s 1999 - he used to have a class of user called ‘POETS’ … in his mind they were the ‘non tech’ crowd.

I see a lot of tech and non tech peeps on micro blog … and it got me to wondering if everyone on micro blog self selected that they were ‘primarily’ either ‘POET’ or ‘TECHNOID' (we need a better word) … it might help discover like minded people - and of course un-like minded people for each of our communities.

Maybe there is a different spectrum that could be applied?

Maybe there are Five Descriptors and you get to distribute 10 points across the 5? So your personal proloctivity shines through?

Thoughts?