Software

USING THE NEW GUTENBERG EDITOR – REBLOG – Janice Wald8

By Marilyn Armstrong on 12/17/2018 • ( 18 )

How to Easily Use the New WordPress Gutenberg Editor DECEMBER 16, 2018 BY JANICE WALD8 COMMENTS Big thank you to Martha Kennedy for spreading this around. These days, I don’t think I need it, but in case I change my mind, it’s… Read More ›

SOMETHING ALWAYS HAPPENS – Marilyn Armstrong

By Marilyn Armstrong on 12/12/2018 • ( 14 )

When Garry came into the bedroom, I was staring at the radio. Garry takes his hearing aids off at night, so we have bedtime conversations at high volume. Shouting, really. “Why are you staring at the radio?” “I’m trying to… Read More ›

NEW DRIVER? YES/NO/LET ME THINK ABOUT IT – Marilyn Armstrong

By Marilyn Armstrong on 12/07/2018 • ( 7 )

FOWC with Fandango — Driver I just got a new download for Windows 10 — which was a followup to the new download I got for my Mac laptop and the one I got for my Kindle and whatever happened to… Read More ›

SOME NOT-SO-BAD NEWS, THE LOCAL EDITION – Marilyn Armstrong

By Marilyn Armstrong on 11/20/2018 • ( 26 )

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 ›

AN AWFUL TERRIBLE HORRIBLE DAY AT WORDPRESS – Marilyn Armstrong

By Marilyn Armstrong on 11/16/2018 • ( 72 )

I went to take a look at the brand spanking new format for WordPress. WARNING: If you do that, you will NOT be able to go back to your old format. I think what they have done is eliminate all… Read More ›

BEING NICE TO CUSTOMER SERVICE – Marilyn Armstrong

By Marilyn Armstrong on 08/15/2018 • ( 29 )

Usually, by the time I call customer service, I’m already mad about something. It’s just the way life is in these crazy days of long hold times, people who speak some other language, but whatever it is, it’s definitely not… Read More ›

WHO ARE YOU CALLING A CUR? A LETTER TO WordPress – Marilyn Armstrong

By Marilyn Armstrong on 04/26/2018 • ( 43 )

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

By Marilyn Armstrong on 04/25/2018 • ( 38 )

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

By Marilyn Armstrong on 04/21/2018 • ( 38 )

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

By Marilyn Armstrong on 04/19/2018 • ( 9 )

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

By Marilyn Armstrong on 04/17/2018 • ( 28 )

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 ›

ANYONE LOOKING TO REHOME A LAPTOP?

By Marilyn Armstrong on 04/04/2018 • ( 32 )

I discovered today that the reason Garry’s computer won’t work properly is the battery is dead. It’s an expensive computer and just 4 years old, but batteries apparently have a lifespan — about three to six-years — and this one… Read More ›

THE ULTIMATE INEFFICIENT LEARNING OF A GRAPHICS APP

By Marilyn Armstrong on 03/26/2018 • ( 35 )

INEFFICIENCY AT IT’S BEST – LEARNING ACDsee WHEN WORDS MEAN NOTHING I have been using a very old version of Photoshop for a long time. It’s CSS5 and I know I got it when I left my last job —… Read More ›

BEFORE THE “CLOUD”

By Marilyn Armstrong on 03/24/2018 • ( 29 )

ARE YOU OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER? OH SURE YOU ARE. I wonder if operating systems will be relevant a few years from now. Change has been a synonym for technology for the past 30 years or more. Change has driven… Read More ›

WOMEN, WORKING, AND DB-1

By Marilyn Armstrong on 02/03/2018 • ( 14 )

Technical writing was new. In 1981, it didn’t have a name. I was a pioneer. I didn’t chop down forests or slaughter aboriginal inhabitants, but I went where no one had gone before. Breaking new ground was exciting and risky…. Read More ›

THIS IS A TEST AND ONLY A TEST? – TOM CURLEY

By tomcurley1 on 01/18/2018 • ( 19 )

The big story a while back, or at least one of them, was a false missile alert that went out to the people of Hawaii saying a missile strike was imminent. Not surprisingly, a lot of people freaked out, ran… Read More ›