🔗 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.
🔗 Orrick Lays Off 90 Lawyers and Staff, Delays Start Dates
Well if the lawyers are starting to lay people off … and delay the graduate intake ….
🔗 What the PGA Tour’s corporate sponsors have to say about joining forces with the Saudis
TL;DR - Nothing - absolutely nothing.
TIL about 🔗 Adenza - Nasdaq just bought them at an 18 times expected 2023 revenue - for a total of $10.5 BILLION .. which gave Thoma Bravo a profit of close to 100% in less than two years. Not only that but Nasdaq doubled its debt load to do the deal. The 18 times revenue is interesting in that it is triple the usual revenue to acquisition ratio.
Nasdaq closed down 10%. As far I can see, the Nasdaq people who did the deal kept their jobs.
In case you are interested in how much money you can make from your Substack …
🔗 Revealed: top 27 highest-earning Substacks generate over $22m a year
… ‘can’ mind you.
🔗 Want to Get Stuff Done? Build Yourself a ‘Friction Tunnel’
We need more friction in our computing experiences, so that when we do make decisions, they’re more explicit and less mindless
🔗 Woman who took abortion pills after UK legal time limit jailed for 28 months.
I am so used to reading these kinds of headlines here in the U.S.A. that I had missed that this was in the U.K.
🔗 Berlusconi dead. … apparently it comes to us all.
“Sometimes we don’t have enough supplies to clean, so we just use what we have or just use water. Sometimes we don’t have a mop, so we use the blankets left on airplanes by passengers to clean the floors,” said Sanchez. “Sometimes in the bathroom there will be blood on the floor, toilet, walls, and there is feces and urine on top of the toilet. When I don’t have enough gloves, I’ve had to wrap a blanket around my hand to clean the bathroom.”
Blah blah .. Gargle gargle … Mooting more move … Wooft ….
Just in case you needed proof that I am not dying ….
🔗 Why Dying People Often Experience a Burst of Lucidity (Apple News).
🔗 A Substack … sharing because of a very clever graphic, that once seen, seems so obvious.
🔗 Nicola Sturgeon arrested in SNP finances inquiry … beginning to get a clue as to why she may have stepped down.
Meanwhile - another example as to how this should work.
Are you listening America?
🔗 12m Americans believe violence is justified to restore Trump to power.
… I bet they are also the ones that have the bulk of the guns.
🔗 Paragraphica by Bjørn Karmann
Interesting project coming out of Denmark.
🔗 Annual profit: $750 million … I wonder how much CNN would be sold for? My guess? Waaaaaay less than ‘a Twitter’.
Search versus Search
For the longest time I have had the wonderful plugin 🔗 ’Search Space’ by @sod running on my site. It is truly fantastic - use it all the time to find post I know I have written in the past - that I want to link to - like here .. imagine how long that would have taken to build without a powerful search.
I also use Hitchens by @pimoore for my site, and Pete rather conveniently included ‘Search’ as part of his template. Not sure what he is doing behind the scenes to make that work - but like all of Hitchens - it just worked out of the box.
But … BUT … ever since installing @sod ’s plugin, having two searches has annoyed me, but I lived with it. Although I knew how to hide the built in search in CSS, I did NOT know how to identify the element that needed hiding, Until NOW.
Thanks to Jason I can now find and identify the elements I need to drop into the CSS. (Again, I new all about ‘Inspect’, but for whatever reason I had a mental block when it came to finding the specifics.)
No longer - and as a result, I now have only 1 🖇️ Search on my site.
No idea if @sod is reading this - maybe I will ping him separately - and find out if he is working on an update - because I do have a few ideas.