🎵 OSI This popped into my feed today Reminded me that I hadn’t listened to it for a while … now I know what today’s music will be.
File Netanyahu in the bucket of “If I say I am innocent - I must be innocent.”
There has been dialogue in the micro.blog network about Black Mirror … did not know that Sigur Ros was the music behind Series 4.
I keep on thinking Skype be damned … bye bye … and then I read things like this and I ask myself why I am still here?
Who was it talking about crosswords … and the use of numbers in same. This is even worse
If you use an ad blocker and visit Salon …. know that your computer is going to be used to help them mine bitcoin ….
How does Salon make money by using my processing power?
The demand for computing power across many different industries and applications is potentially very high. We intend to use a small percentage of your spare processing power to contribute to the advancement of technological discovery, evolution and innovation. For our beta program, we’ll start by applying your processing power to help support the evolution and growth of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies.
I have been collecting snippets of writing that I have had distributed all over my computers and devices into a single place … and in parallel, working through them to;
- file
- work on
- publish
I found an early draft of this which obviously got published last September … filed under ‘bleeding obvious’.
Data Privacy Day
I heard a lot of narrative about ‘Passwords’ and how important they are, and how you shouldn’t share them and …. not one mention of using highly secure passwords with a password manager.
#Random Words 3/7 We are also going to have a great time with your family today.
#Rules Of Online Behavior
Your online persona is under everyone’s control, no matter how in control you think you are … you aren’t.
Shoutout to someone we all know and love … @manton …. Let me explain.
I have an instance of 1999 by @dave and had been wrestling with getting it imported to my micro.blog. Every which way I turned gave me part of what I wanted, but somehow never managed to complete the cycle. RSS, JSON, import to Wordpress, export to WXR … it always seemed to be an incomplete record … but I knew the JSON file was complete.
Manton ran his magic last night and lo … over 500 posts (if I counted right) are now all added to my existing instance and my ‘micro world' is all in one central place.
Not only that but in that process he also fixed the bad behavior of large images pushing out the edit screen on the web.
For posterity, my first 1999 post was on 21st April 2016 and is now right here on micro.blog
Thankyou Manton
It’s the conclusion:
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It’s not how you apply, it’s who you know. And if you don’t know someone, don’t bother.
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Companies are trying to fill a position with minimal risk, not discover someone who breaks the mold.
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The number of jobs you apply to has no correlation to whether you’ll be considered, and you won’t be considered for jobs you don’t get the chance to apply to.
There is actually a whole lot more - that’s what ‘The Present Of Work' is going to be about.
#Curation
Consolidating unpublished snippets and thinking in Ulysses
Posted in manageable chunks [here](http://john.philpin.com)
Cross referenced and tagged here
Selectively pushed out to here or here or here
Always tweeted out to here and here
And with that all done (it's a 'WIP') ... we can then move onto phase two.
”The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted."
D.H. Lawrence
Your Rights
- The right to be informed
- The right of access
- The right to rectification
- The right to erasure
- The right to restrict processing
- The right to data portability
- The right to object
Talk about an anti-climax .. it buys Google a 0.34% stake in Uber - because they still value Uber at 72 billion dollars .. which as of today is just about 10% of what Google is worth.
Half Time Score :
🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺 - 🍷🍷🍷
It isn’t important - except it is
CRAFT BEER IS BETTER FOR YOU THAN WINE, ACCORDING TO EXPERTS
You might think them unusual … but in England they are the norm …
BTW - of the ten British festivals listed … 9 of them are English … the tenth being waaaaaay up in Shetland … but they do have weird stuff in mainland Scotland, Wales and Ireland … its just that we English take pride in our weirdness - indeed strive for same.
Random Words 2/7
We are getting ready for our first trip tomorrow morning to see what the weather looks like and then there’s no chance of getting it through the night.