🔗 WWW
There are a lot of links out to different parts of the web on this site. I try to mark them all so they get listed here.
New Zealand Declares A National Emergency For The Third Time In Twelve Years
That’s how bad it is getting .. and not just in New Zealand.
Bernard Hickey reporting that New Zealand has declared a 🔗 National emergency for Gabrielle. The massive storm and floods two weeks ago where 4 people died did NOT have the same focus. In fact, it’s only been enabled twice before. Though in fairness, the Hawke’s Bay earthquake in 1931 would have resulted in it being declared a National Emergency had there been such an organization and in later years, with other earthquakes, it was the Department of Civil Defence that was called into action.
That all said, these challenges do seem to be accelerating.
I have flown this route many, many times (sorry - Twitter), so when I read that 🔗 United flight from Hawaii plunged to within 800ft of Pacific Ocean, I explored.
Not reported at the time (this wasn’t news?) and revealed in The Air Current, an organ that surely everyone reads?
In light of my daily reading of 🔗 The Daily Stoic, this one seemed to connect to some recent themes I have been reading. Not the first time this 💬 has been on the site, but three years ago, it wasn’t as pretty.
Most people I know will resonate with this 🔗 video. A great example of ‘truth in humour’. And yes I know there are exceptions … which is why OUR fitted sheets are always perfectly folded!
Substack is designed for writers, not business owners.
💬 Ellen Donnelly
What she means is that Substack doesn’t have all the data tracking guff and stuff that comes with the marketing ESPs like Mailchimp and Constant Contact.
A set of links from Jono Hey’s 🔗 Sketchplanations where he uses his image talent to help us understand meanings, spellings and usage of words. Really good, something for everyone.
It all started here the old c or s question in spelling
Export from Overcast to OPML.
Import to iThoughts. (odd - right?)
Export to Markdown.
Post Markdown into an MB page.
… and voilà … 🔗 a list of podcasts I follow.
Next job is to work out how to automagically organize the list so it is easier for the average passer by.
A few days after the conversation started, someone (1) wrote;
“all I need now is a technical person that is interested in writing the plugin.”
Voila.
Project started.
P U M P E D
(1) Was it @sod? Can’t find the comment that is in my head anywhere!
Into Coops? Fed up with Zoom, Teams, Blue Jeans et al … maybe 🔗 The Online Meeting Cooperative is what you are looking for. Anyone using them?
🔗 Uber settles UK VAT tax bill with HMRC
… Tracking the organizational antichrist - AKA Uber - as I do, I was surprised that I hadn’t hear about this little scam. Glad to see the loop is closed and the noose tightened.
Just been looking at the various options to backing up my MicroBlog. Nice to see that the WayBack machine has been 🔗 quietly doing its job in the background. Not so nice to see how much of a problem there was in 2020 and 2021. ONWARDS.
🔗 If you subscribe to Calm and are into Stoicism.
Discovered this by accident. Calm has a lot of stuff - but they are really bad at offering ways to find it.
The Streamlining continues.
🔗 A new page indexing all of my pages on MicroBlog to reduce menu clutter.
If you know how to
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remove ‘categories’ (the archive / category page)
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move ‘bookshelf’ from the end of the menu
I sure would appreciate the help. Thankyou.
An 'Unknown' Podcaster - He Sounds Boring - He Is Fascinating
🎵 Despite my initial resistance to the 500 song podcast narrated by 🔗 Andrew Hickey .. I am now moving into my third … first ‘The Monkees’, then ‘Love’, now ‘The Move’. The depth of information flying through the speakers is really quite incredible - thoroughly researched, packed with information - some of which I know - a lot I don’t.
A particular speciality of his is identifying groups that todays’ mega stars played with in the very early days. Examples like when Albert Lee played with Hendrix and Jim Morrison wishing he and The Doors were as good as Love. Or how Graeme Edge and John Bonham both played in the same band - sorry, cant recall who replaced who … and and and … fascinating - and NOT information that is on ‘the wiki’.
So - I did some prodding around to work out who Hickey is - assuming he must have been a music journalist at some point - but no. At least not that I could find. He seems to be a relatively ‘unknown’ creator who writes books and does podcasts.
Interesting that in the search, I came across this review of his podcast : Pismotality: A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs that has one comment - from Andrew Hickey. He spends a little time talking about his accent and deadpan delivery … something I referenced in my first post on him, and it turns out there is a reason.
Anyway - suffice to say - if you love rock and related music genre and want to learn more - particularly about the genesis of the ‘names’ - highly recommend.
🔗 How to Add Chapters to Your Highlights in Readwise with Headings …. it is amazing how much stuff there is under the hood over at #Readwise.
During their two weeks in New Zealand, they caused so much outrage in the media that the New Zealand Parliament addressed the issue of granting entry permits to musicians such as the Pretty Things.
Who knew they were so ‘badass’?
🔗 Podsearch Reborn … from David Smith.
Interesting - and powerful.
This ‘little’ service is a welcome extension to my tool set.