There is no escaping the fact that 2021 was (still) not a normal year, and I am not sure any year will ever be exactly comparable to the Before Times. There is too much residual self-care going on for that. And yet, and yet … it was a pretty good year, and I say that knowing full well how privileged I am. I share a pleasant space with a person who is the love of my life and my best friend, we eat well, and want for nothing. We got our vaccinations and boosters, we were able to travel a bit, within Italy, and we stayed healthy throughout. So, much to be thankful for and to appreciate.
Getting used to the new computer was a delight, mostly. Some issues remain, notably with the lack of ports and the number of external things I need, but overall great joy. The speed of the thing often makes me think it has read my mind. Excellent downtime too, after the usual, hectic, we-must-have-it-by-the-end-of-the-year rush. Boosted too, which is nice.
Still pursuing the idea of sharing from NewsBlur to other places, especially Known and Micro.blog, I went digging around in the code. All of the options are in a section of NewsBlur-master/media/js/newsblur/reader/reader.js starting at line 2560.
Not that any of them will read it but what, I wonder, would young people make of my post from exactly ten years ago? Yahoo Pipes? RSS? Curating content in order to share it from my own site? Clearly the hallucinations of an old fart’s brain.
And yet, it brought back memories of real achievemen...
Launched in 2004, regrettheerror.com was a wonderful source of entertainment. Craig Silverman, who started it, moved on to bigger and better things, and Poynter took over the annual round-up that celebrated the art and craft of the correction. Since 2004, of course, the whole enterprise has gradua...
