google apps & google news

Some adjustments required. enabling news “officially” for your domain. adjusting settings at news.google.com (feeds to “google now”?) seldom-sometimes-often-always are the options. some ref. sites say “never” used to be an option. Preparing for “marshmallow” android, google now & related got me looking at this options. A few screen shots below.


Tech. Geekery – How to Cook your Web Site Visit Statistics….

…for fun & profit. “…the new calculation, CNN’s “total digital traffic” clocks in a 64 million unique visitors, ahead of FoxNews.com’s 55 million.”


Use with caution but…

blogspot google drive plug-in Note publication date of 21 July 2015. Reviews as of today? Ongoing support from google.com as well as microsoft.com? Still has the new car smell. The ash tray won’t fill up for some time. 🙂


(another) Google Translate Tour

translate.google.com


whoa there big fella(s) II (the adventure continues…)

recaptcha “fix” breaks things to an even greater degree. Unable to logon to web site plus – can’t logon using google.com provided “emergency file”. Geek fix – rename the plugin directory.


Whoa there big fella(s) – buggy wordpress patch for reCaptcha

This is going to cause some grief for the less geeky wordpress audience…crashes wordpress sites. Just happen on barfooinc.net wordpress patching today. All your site visitors get is something along the lines of: Parse error Syntax error in google-captcha.php instead of your site. https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax-error-in-google-captchaphp Contiued 27 Aug 2015. Had to disable /wp-content/plugins/google-captcha completely. The fix […]


To err is human…

What’s up doc? I can: Share View Information Delete Dot Dot Dot (more) But edit from desktop is gone, gone gone. Again what’s up doc (google.com)?  


Interesting omission – malware & virus via advertising…

Found it interesting they found time to mention “ethics” but made no mention of: malware virus Both known to masquerade as internet advertising & often unmonitored by paid site. AD BLOCKERS AND THE NUISANCE AT THE HEART OF THE MODERN WEB Note the funky formatting on the bullet list. Latest wordpress – still a work […]


Same old song w/a few new lines htaccess hack

To be continued. Hackers got at least as far as gaining ability to touch root .htaccess file & drop new .php files in root.  Brave new world Google.com was helpful in this case. They noticed the hack before I did.


A few wordpress adjustments (mobile access)

Mobile pack before & after. Enabling analytics on mobile device access. Mobile pack doesn’t respect “off topic” home page exclusion?