Conserve the Sound, an Online Museum for Old Technology Sounds

… very cool … and is it me … or on the second click through, does the site itself even have a Germanic feel to it?



New news from @manton (at least to me. I have just discovered that we can embed recent micro blog posts in the sidebar of another blog ….

Just tried it out still messing with the CSS … but this might inspire me to put the sidebars back on to my other blogs.


U.S. business asks PM May how bad can Brexit get?

Well she won’t know will she?


Rupert Murdoch’s Fox to sell Sky stake to Comcast

It’s telling that I was so much against Murdoch taking 100% of Sky that I celebrate Comcast beating him out. COMCAST. Good grief … what has the world become?


So finally my time capsule gave up the ghost and now looking at alternatives to it for my backups.

Anyone have thoughts on Backblaze?

Alternatives?

OR - buy a synology as a direct replacement?


Just re discovered this … and saved it in a more logical place so that I can go through it with time - thankyou @cm - useful for all who live in the micro blog / blot world.


Domain clean up time ….

Whilst deleting the old humor site, I decided that I might as well delete these other ‘experimental’ instances.

Are you sure you want to delete this site? ‘Yes! After deletion, your site will no longer be available, please type DELETE to confirm your agreement. ‘delete’

It was a minute later that WPMUDEV let me know that my site was ‘down’

2 minutes to delete, about 5 hours of elapsed time to restore ….

Filed under reasons I should not be allowed super admin powers on my domains. I just deleted the prime site on that domain.

Luckily my weekly backup had been completed just 14 hours previously … so nothing lost … except hair, brain cells, time and self respect.


Ten Years After Not One High-Level Banker Sent to Jail for Tanking Global Economy, Man Gets 20 Years in Prison for Stealing Cigarettes

Proof that equality is alive and well in the USA, tho’ the judges may have to stop using Animal Farm as a reference book.


Labour set to vote against Brexit deal, open to second referendum

Oh … now they are puffing their chests.


Trump criticizes Iran as ‘corrupt dictatorship’ in U.N. speech

… he criticizes Iran for being what he is and what he wants.



Playing Defense … click through for a great cartoon from Tom Tomorrow.


I know how to move app icons around the iOS screens - but I sure do miss the ability to reorder the pages.


… and so with the import complete and now fully tagged - bye bye to 🖇️ humor.philpin.com - because it is here now - and so now my micro blog includes such delights as 🖇️ the 45 best oxymorons … ‘Microsoft Works' is still my favourite.


”The Republican rats are building themselves yet another mighty lifeboat.  And unless it is burned to the waterline, they will once again escape accountability for the ruin they have brought upon us all and go right back to breeding Republican monsters."

Driftglass


Civil War … enough already .. take no prisoners.

NONE.


Uber’s New Look

Is it a duck?


Photographs Of The Moon … using an iPhone 7 and a telescope.

STUNNING


All Reuters RSS Feeds in one handy place. Enjoy.