👁️ Asides
A reminder from Seth
The Hotel California (and subscriptions)
The seduction is clear. They’re sending a message: If you want us to bring you eyeballs, move in. Don’t link out.
and …
The best way to read blogs hasn’t changed in twenty years. RSS. It’s free and easy and it just works. It’s the most efficient way to get the information you’re looking for, and it’s under your control.
👁️ You know how they keep leaving New Zealand off world maps? Now we are disappearing from global surveys❗️Were NZ to be included in this survey, I believe they would surely be top right oo this graphic.
🔗 Ranked: Which Country Consumes the Most Coffee?
(No - not absolute - it is ‘per capita’)
The only surprising thing about Jimmy and Disney is the world’s surprise at Disney doing what Disney did.
It’s what everyone does people - they pay, they mollify and they lick.
I have been trying to work out why the posts I thought I had posted weren’t posted. It seems that somehow my settings got changed and I now have a backlog of posts on my test blog. #Annoying
Just going to repost here.
Dear Apple - those tab things you finally moved into Apple Mail - Primary, Transactions, Updates, Promotions.
One more please, Newsletters.
They don’t fit into any of the above.
At a pinch .. updates - but really - NO.
In a March 20 company meeting, Musk indicated that he was dumbfounded by the attacks and said the vandals should “stop acting psycho.”
Introducing …
what a hegseth
… as a new phrase for our global lexicon - I will let y’all decide what it means.
Finally tried the MeidasTouch podcast since it seems to suddenly be ‘up there’ in the podcast league … sure it’s for a lot of people - but boy .. a bit more in the enthusiasm sector of speech delivery would really help.
People keep on talking about ‘the felon’ … and I keep reading ‘elon’ can’t wait to read more about
FElon
Somewhere there were a couple of complaints about the back arrow (top left) in the iOS app needing adjustment. @manton mentioned he had made changes which may have caused the problem. Adding myself to the ‘can we fix it please list’ .. particularly bad on the iPad mini.
Finally cracked the big yellow header at the top of my blog that ‘randomly appeared’ about a month ago. Turns out that uninstalling the ‘holiday lights’ wasn’t sufficient - I needed to also delete row after row of ‘invisible bullets’. #Fixed.
I am thinking that it might be time to bid farewell to Hitchens and move on to a new theme. Sorely tempted by a theme that isn’t even out there yet!
You know what I’m talking about @mtt