Fandango’s Provocative Question #92 -Anonymous or not? I’ve been scammed, had my identity stolen not once, but twice and that was when I was anonymous. These days, it simply makes no difference. I’m not going to publish my address and… Read More ›
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REMEMBER “LOOK ALIKE, FEEL ALIKE”?
“Look alike, feel alike” used to be the motto of the User Interface area of software development. The idea was that as you developed a product, each new version should “feel the same way” as the one that came before… Read More ›
MY BEST-EVER JOB
Fandango’s Dog Days of August #30: MY BEST JOB EVER I had been looking for a job that would let me flex my hours so Garry and I could spend time together. It was difficult. He worked terribly long hours, gone… Read More ›
STATS FOR THE FIRST HALF OF 2019 – Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC with Fandango — Stats This is a good time of year to look at statistics. It’s just past the middle of the year and in theory, it should give you a reasonably good idea what the year will look like…. Read More ›
SOME NOT-SO-BAD NEWS, THE LOCAL EDITION – Marilyn Armstrong
Sometimes complaining helps. All the people who complained that they can’t use the new format have been offered the option of retaining (forever, apparently) the “classic format.” I was up at the Forum and there were tens of thousands of… Read More ›
MY MENTORS – Marilyn Armstrong
I actually did have a few over the years, although not in the usual sense. They weren’t people who “advanced” me professionally, but they were the ones who sat with me and taught me. Tsvi, back in Rehovot — Thank… Read More ›
THEN I UNDERSTOOD WORDPRESS AND WHAT’S HAPPENING – Marilyn Armstrong
I reread the letter from this engineer and I realized suddenly, with a certain horror, what it means to me, to you, to all of us who have been here for a while and built sites. WordPress decided to change… Read More ›
WHO ARE YOU CALLING A CUR? A LETTER TO WordPress – Marilyn Armstrong
Dear NP – Happiness Engineer at WordPress, You know, when my responses dropped by 50% in February, I said “Oh, they’ll fix it. Surely it’s not just me …” By the middle of March, having gone from getting an average… Read More ›
AN ELABORATE CONSPIRACY – Marilyn Armstrong
It’s an elaborate conspiracy Someone commented that “working on a problem” was, for WordPress, their version of progress. So I got to thinking. What is the opposite word — the antonym as it were — of progress? And after considerable… Read More ›
IF I HAD A MALLET – Marilyn Armstrong
Mallet from Daily Post Between one thing and another, Word Press has killed off my following. In ONE month, they’ve knocked me down by more than 80%. I’m finding it hard to convince myself to bother writing since it seems… Read More ›
WHAT’S THE ANTONYM FOR PROGRESS? Marilyn Armstrong
Someone commented that “working on a problem” was, for WordPress, their version of progress. So I got to thinking. What is the opposite word — the antonym as it were — of progress? And after considerable research I discovered there… Read More ›
FRETTING WHEN YOUR NAME DISAPPEARS IN WORDPRESS’S SEARCH ENGINE? – Marilyn Armstrong
Fretting? Why would I be fretting? After all — the “Happiness Engineers” are still working on solving “my” problem! It’s comforting to hear that “our team” is continuing to “work” on this issue or are they working on it again…. Read More ›
