As soon as I saw the keynote launching the MacBook Pro 16 inch, I wanted it. It wasn’t a matter of if I were going to get it, it was only a matter of how much the model I bought would be souped up. I had to wait to get it until I returned to…
Category: Computer Follies
FaceBook is the New Town Square? Okay, treat it that way.
Stop commenting or relying publicly on FaceBook. Make your comments that are just meant for that one person, who is sharing something, a direct message. Don’t forget to reference the post you are reacting to.
An Unscheduled Vacation From Blogging
It all started with the rain. It has been a long time since I have lived anywhere, where the rain can continue day after day. I am used to an occasional day of rain, or even more often just a morning or afternoon of rain. So I really didn’t think to check the ten day…
A Problem with WordPress: Workaround
The other day I logged on to WordPress and went to the My Site page. Going down to post, I clicked on Drafts. This drew up the list of unfinished post. I really should kill some of them, as I don’t think I am going to be going back to them. I clicked on the…
A matter of keyboards: the nomad’s dilemma
Follow An Inconvenient Life on WordPress.com The Early Days: My first exposure to keyboards, outside of typewriters was the card punch machine we used at the academy to punch the cards for the Wang Programmable calculator. Since I could only hunt and peck at that time, the quality of the keyboard really didn’t matter to me….
Я вернулся на Facebook!
Yes, I am back on FaceBook. As a matter of fact I have been back on FaceBook since April 10, 2018. I wanted to wait awhile to see if I was going to stay before writing a post about it. After saving my Facebook history, killing my old profile, and starting a new one, as…
Life on limited FaceBook
Well, it has been over two months since I deleted my old FaceBook account and started the more clean impersonal account. I still keep face book off my iOS devices. Having to make the effort to go to my desktop to check on face book, makes it where I check only every few weeks. Since…
To FaceBook or not to FaceBook
Along with so many other people, I decided to delete FaceBook. It sounds easy, but how can I really one day cut off so many people, who I only have contact with through this app? My first contact with internet social was on message boards, which I visited during college. When I found chat rooms,…
A Simple Hack
Have you ever found yourself needing to read something on a web page, but the bouncing flashing ads and auto play videos keep drawing your eyes away, even when you have muted the sound?