I spent most of my working life in a computer development environment. I know a lot of developers and computer engineers. I have watched software in development, helped in the process. I can read code — probably not well at… Read More ›
Software
PRINTERS AND WHY I HATE THEM
This is not new. I hated copy machines first because we had copy machines before we had personal printers. Once we “advanced” from dot-matrix to laser and/or inkjet printers, I really started to hate them. If you are a child… Read More ›
THE NEW COMPUTER
It’s done. I actually spent the money to get it set up today. Otherwise, it would have been a week of messing with it. It’s not that I don’t know how. It’s that I didn’t want to do it again…. Read More ›
I HATE WORDPRESS
Just when I think WordPress can’t possibly make their service any worse, they find a way to make it worse. Not content with forcing us to use their crappy block editor or with trashing their media library so that those… Read More ›
THE HELL OF GETTING HACKED
Another rerun that’s strangely timely — from earlier this year (but I forgot I published it, so you problem don’t remember reading it) — this was Fandango’s Provocative Question #127 Let me start with a rerun of the post I wrote… Read More ›
CHANGES BUT NOT MANY
As I plod my way through the new Adobe applications, I’m not shocked by how much has changed. I’m more surprised at how little has changed. Considering that the most recent version of Photoshop I used is more than 10… Read More ›
THE BEAT GOES ON
Somehow, with all the deleting and reorganizing I did, I still only managed to regain 50 GB of additional space, totaling 185 GB out of a terabyte. That didn’t make sense until I found Microsoft’s backup files. They produce two… Read More ›
CHAOS AND ORGANIZING
I absolutely needed new software if not for the tools — which aren’t very different than the ones I have from 10 years ago — but because I’ve been avoiding doing this forever. I knew it was going to be… Read More ›
IT’S HOT & CHARTER IS DOWN
Trying to post anything has been really difficult. Yesterday, it went from cool and comfortable to really, really hot. I think it might also be humid, but frankly, it’s so damned hot who can tell? It’s not that the Wi-Fi… Read More ›
GETTING HACKED IS HELL
Fandango’s Provocative Question #127 Let me start with a rerun of the post I wrote when we got hacked in 2018. Not surprisingly, it was called “HACKED.” Actually, there were two of them: “HACKED AND HATING IT” and the next day,… Read More ›
IT’S ALWAYS WINDOWS
Windows works. It a mess, yet somehow, it keeps trucking along. Because the price of a high-end PC is far less than a Mac — and anyone can build them including you — they remain “the standard” for business. Having… Read More ›
A CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH A FLYING SQUIRREL AND ANOTHER LOST DAY
About flying squirrels. I mentioned a while ago that they have returned. I don’t really know if they ever went away, only that I haven’t seen them for a while. During the winter, we could leave the feeders out overnight… Read More ›
SOFTWARE IS ALL 2020. I HATE IT
I was going to hire someone to do this for me, but I simply couldn’t keep my hands off the equipment for a whole week. First, I solved a baffling problem that arose a couple of weeks ago. I couldn’t… Read More ›
IT’S A GIANT PLOT. THE CABAL OF CABALS.
I swear, the software developers of the world are trying to drive me crazy. In every high tech company worldwide, developers are updating, upgrading, and redesigning everything. All the functions we depended on are getting turned inside out. Between operating… Read More ›
ONGOING WORDPRESS CONVERSATIONS AND A THANK YOU
I think WordPress’s engineers come in two grades: really good and really awful. I have gotten a lot of the awful kind, but once in a while, I get a good one. This one has been really good and helpful…. Read More ›
A NOTE TO WORDPRESS AND THE ANSWER
October 17, 2020 I have more than 11,000 posts and just under a million views. Since you have made working on WordPress increasing unpleasant and difficult, I find it highly likely I will have to end our relationship in February…. Read More ›
BETRAYED AND SEEKING NEW HOME
Like many others, I’ve found the “new” WordPress block editor to be clunky and awkward to use. It doesn’t matter where I use it. It’s equally difficult on my 15.6 inch PC laptop as it is on my 14-inch Mac…. Read More ›
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 ›
WHY COMPANIES “GO BAD”
While our planet is going south, the west is burning down, and COVID-19 is killing tens of thousands of people, a lot of corporations are in a state of self-demolition. WordPress is an obvious example, but by no means the… Read More ›
BLOCK EDITOR OR WHAT?
I started blogging on WordPress in 2012 and quickly started to pay to customize my site. I have been paying for almost the entire time I’ve been blogging. Me and my friends have written 11,000 posts over the years and… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 