Favorite and Final – Morning in Peacham, Vermont Two pictures, both taken on the same morning in Peacham, Vermont.
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HACKED – Marilyn Armstrong
Isn’t it fortunate I got a second computer! It turns out this hacking thing is a big deal and it was all over the TV news tonight. They are hacking routers. Apparently, if you reboot your router (unplug or turn… Read More ›
WE ARE ARCHAIC – AND I’VE BEEN HACKED – Marilyn Armstrong
ARCHAIC We were the hot new writers that got WordPress ‘on the board’ back in their early days, but we are old now and they want something different. More money. A lot more money. Apparently the profits they are making… Read More ›
BINDWEED AND THE BIG TWIST – Marilyn Armstrong
BINDWEED AND THE BIG TWIST When the spring flowers have finished in June, the bindweed comes and takes over. I have spent every year of my gardening life fending off the bindweed (which I often call “strangle weed”). It lives,… Read More ›
BLOGGING DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE – Marilyn Armstrong
WordPress’s new “algorithm” has made a lot of bloggers unhappy. I’m sure they regret our unhappiness, but I think what is really making them unhappy is that other companies — like Google and Facebook — are raking in fortunes —… 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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
BREAKING NEWS? HOW ABOUT A BROKEN WORDPRESS SEARCH ENGINE? – MARILYN ARMSTRONG
Not exactly luminescent. More like the exact opposite. If you are on your dashboard and you go to Reader (I don’t know what dashboard you are using because they keep “fixing it” and this latest fix has REALLY fixed it… Read More ›
TALK ABOUT THWARTED …
INDEED THWARTED I have disappeared from the Reader. I just added myself again, but effectively, it looks like nothing I’ve posted for the past couple of weeks has been publicized. At all. If anyone is interested, although we are out-of-town… Read More ›
CROWDS ON BOSTON’S WHARF – GARRY ARMSTRONG
WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: A Face in the Crowd This week’s challenge are faces “in the crowd.” These are the people you never meet. Crowds of tourists. The folks lined up to buy tickets at the game. Happy faces, worried… Read More ›
NAMELESS FACES: ON THE STREETS IN BOSTON
WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: A Face in the Crowd This week’s challenge are faces “in the crowd,” or what we used to call in the newspaper biz, nameless faces. There are two really great things about it. The first is… Read More ›
Serendipity Seeking Intelligent Life on Earth 