It’s Micro Monday, so …. @stefp


Personalized E-mails Should Be .. Well .. Personalized!

There must be something about me at this time of the year .. apparently I first signed up with IFTTT six years ago! They even sent me a ‘happy birthday’ message this morning …

It’s been six years since you joined IFTTT on February 6, 2012.

… and then tried to give me some guidance on using the service more with some recommendations.

I have to say the 4 applets that they picked for me were neither relevant, interesting, clever or even unknown … you would have thought that with all the triggers and tracking that they have behind the scenes that they could have done a lot better with their personal recommendations.

For example they know the services I have connected to, how often my applets get triggered, how long they have been there … which is a clue to where I spend time, what I do and where my interests lie.


🎬 AT IMDB : The Shape of Water

RATING : 🌟🌟

COMMENTS : Didn’t want to see it based on the ads … and then it won all of those nominations. Still wish I hadn’t bothered.


Just a post shared from Unread after seeing it (the reader - not the Post) promoted by @Brentsimmons this morning.


Moving My 1999 Posts to Micro.Blog

I have linked my 1999 site into Micro.Blog - so that if I publish something on River.BeyondBridges.net … the post finds it’s way into my Micro.Blog timeline.

So far so good.

Now what I want to do is pull all of the historical posts that are there into here (the public facing side of my Micro.Blog)

In other words …

A one off import of all the content at My River to John DOT Philpin

Onwards - I know there is help to be had somewhere.


Funny how milestones come all at once …


New ‘To Do’ … that might never get done … move 450 or so posts from my 1999 Server to Micro.Blog … any instructions, help, direction … very welcome …


Bought DayONE 2 … 2 Years Ago Today … according to DayONE 2 … is that meta - or just confusing?


Wait … Groundhog Day? Today?


Hat hung onto … feeling good about the workflow … still not quite right … but it no longer feels wrong!


Customer Centricity at AmEx ..

  1. Sorry - you can’t do that on the web site - please call the number on the back of your card.

  2. Sorry - I can’t handle that request - I will need to escalate you to my manager.

  3. Sorry - that is not this department - I will transfer you to the correct department.

  4. Ok - that’s all done - you will see that change on the web site in a couple of days.


Ryan, Sara and Justin … I am with you …



Now THAT’s what I am Talking about

When you look at these sorry efforts … knowing that what you had in mind was this ….

Original and more on Reddit here

… you get to understand what being a photographer really means …

Woke up at 3:00 am to get my first eclipse progression. Shot on Sony A7Rii and Sony 70-200 F4.


August 1939 Mobile, Alabama

History Rhymes


Doomed … my bold

”I’ve kept one promise after another and we’re just getting started … Now we’ve fulfilled far more promises than we promised … I call it promises plus."

Trump at the GOP summit in West Virginia

via Axios


thanks to @colinwalker i now have an Instapaper App running on my Mac.


My bold … and edits

As of this writing

Apple’s market cap is $860B. That’s based on a price to earning ratio of 18.25.

Amazon’s market cap is $696B, with a P/E ratio of 364.98.

And Alphabet? Hot on Apple’s tail with a market cap of $811B and a P/E of 39.09.

In effect, Apple’s stock is grounded in actual results, while Amazon’s stock is more of a flier, based on growth and the thinking that Amazon is going to eat the world.

… and Apple is the one that is ‘doomed’

Source


David Does David

Just watch

It will take five minutes and 24 seconds of your day.

**File Under ** Just Great 🎵


Five Blue States Could Determine Who Controls The House In 2018

Specifically; New Jersey, California, Illinois, Virginia and New York

Interesting analysis from 538.