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Weird s*** at godaddy (or bluehost, or wordpress….) today

At some point you just throw in the towel & humor their failures. Clues so far: bluehost absolutely positively INSISTS on installing wordpress in a subdirectory – not root? godaddy aboslutely positively INSISTS on installing wordpress at root – not a subdirectory. wordpress – not much help. Seeing frustrated postings (search “wordpress subdirectory” or “wordpress […]

HTC memory cleanup or…

…an app too far? Suspicious of some of these #’s. Better speed post cleanup? Yep.

1st Seitan

Or view in separate page here

e-reader snl “really? w/seth & amy moment

Continuing to spend a little time w/e-reader options & issues – thanks cpl 3 reserve limit!  😉 Short form –  it is possible to overcome commercial e-reader (kindle) nonsensical block of basic copy/paste functionality.       Paste to google doc.        

Ereaders & reference materials

Dictionaries, highlights & internet lookups. A brief review – my primary motivations for looking more deeply into ereader & ereader conversion – CPL 3 title reserve cap. 2ndary – seen here – local dictionary & internet (wikipedia or overall internet) for unknown terms. Conveninent.           One more…”Faux”. 

This could be an interesting development

Via economist.com article. ZocDoc, an American health tech company, allows potential patients to search for a physician by location, speciality or the type of insurance they accept. Patients can schedule an appointment on their smartphones. Investors including Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, have put $95m into ZocDoc since its launch in 2007. The company claims […]

Strictly for testing – twitter

I’ll see if I can find the PBS (?) documentary where they talked to the twitter guy. Billion dollar valuation? Really? What I got out of the documentary – concept for twitter came from his hobby (?) of monitoring emergency services communication – police, fire, ambulance… How often & how many of us truly have […]

search is not a premium feature

In spite of what feedly says – search is NOT a premium item.             Keeping old reader in back pocket if this gets too annoying.

Opt out follies

An observation on an ongoing silliness among software vendors. A lot of the JAVA NSA roots revolve around “opt out” defaults. Another quarter heard from – adobe flash.     Bloat by default

Video Testing – vimeo

VID 20121202 124916 from Bob Finley on Vimeo. Uploading to vimeo (free) – takes a bit longer than youtube. Testing as alternate to youtube & others. AS OF 08 aug 2013 10 am – neither embed (using vimeo html) or wordpress video pluging is resulting in a video – still image only.   using the […]