Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
So I learned from a wanna-be commenter here that efforts to post comments here (am I being redundant by now?) were failing.
Instead of the comment posting, this error message resulted instead: Invalid security token. Bad. Deal.
I did some research in the course of two days. 🙁 Read it all
I just discovered #emoticons showing up in #Facebook comments. Nice! Too bad they're not showing up in #status updates.
— Mark Roth (@anabaptist) October 12, 2012
Up until early this morning, I’ve resisted using shortcodes in my WordPress blogs.
But this morning I built my very own first custom shortcode. Sure, it’s simple and short and probably painfully plain. So?
I plunked it in my active theme’s functions.php file and it works great! I know that by putting it there I’m limiting its application to my current theme. If I change themes, I’ll have to add the code to that theme’s functions.php. Read it all
At times I’ve seen lists or guidelines or policies on the Web that impress me as something I’d like to use as a pattern for my own site.
So I copy-and-paste.
Then I personalize it to my style and localize it to my site. (I dislike — and maybe disdain and despise — plagiarism
One problem with the practice of borrowing content is Read it all
“It seems like people are no longer in control of their own privacy.”
No. Kidding. 🙄
Mr. Zhang sounds shocked. Please. Of course people have lost control of their privacy.
And most don’t care. 😯
Besides, haven’t we known for years that “Google is your friend”? Read it all
So you have an ebook ready for market — or well on its way to being ready, like I do — but you need a cover.
What software or service should you I use to design that cover? (I updated this post at the end on October 18, 2012.)
I did some minimal research and came across an outfit called MyeCoverMaker. With a name like that, what’s there not to like? (Some free options closed the deal for me.) Read it all
I am not a fan of The Cloud.
I think cloud computing is handy, but dumb. Well, unwise, anyway. 😯
I think storing personal data in The Cloud is an invitation for all manner of security and privacy problems.
I also think saying such stuff is too much like spitting into the wind. And invites ridicule and there-there-you-old-fashioned-kook condescension. 🙄 Read it all