Category Archives: Communication

Adventures with a dumbphone: Morse Mania

Posted on February 27, 2021 by pendantry

Just over a year ago, I finally joined the smartdumbphone crowd (I wibbled about my experience at the time, in case you’re interested). I’m proud of myself in that I haven’t succumbed to the urge to become a meanderthal — … Continue reading →

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How to time travel using WordPress

Posted on February 23, 2021 by pendantry

Disclaimer: this is how it currently works; I offer no guarantees that this information is valid in your epoch! The only constant is change. Heraclitus (c.535 BC – c.474 BC) The ‘permalink’ Each WordPress post is allocated a permalink (short … Continue reading →

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How to quote someone else’s words in a WordPress comment

Posted on February 22, 2021 by pendantry

A couple of people (Sam “Goldie” Kirk and… someone else, whose comment I’m unfortunately unable to find) have asked me how I quote others’ words in WordPress comments, so I thought I’d pen a quick blogette about it. For many … Continue reading →

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Scribble: Rant – No Variations on the Theme, revisited

Posted on February 20, 2021 by pendantry

The preamble to the preamble I spent three hours (!) this morning talking with ‘a’ WordPress Happiness Engineer, (to whom I shall refer as ‘HE’ and ‘they’, for reasons that will become apparent, should you actually make it that far; … Continue reading →

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Goodbye, facebook — and, good riddance

Posted on February 18, 2021 by pendantry

[Addendum 27Feb2021: The Juice Media’s latest video adds further context. It looks more and more like my first knee-jerk response to the news was ill-informed. That still doesn’t affect my decision to leave faecesbook; two evils don’t make a good.] … Continue reading →

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Bank of England: stop funding the climate crisis!

Posted on February 17, 2021 by pendantry

tl;dr: Here are the links to the petitions by Positive Money, 350.org and SumOfUs; please pick just one and add your name before 24Feb2021. These three organisations are running the same petition; current signature counts as I write this are … Continue reading →

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A letter to The Co-operative Bank — a rant

Posted on February 14, 2021 by pendantry

Dear Sir or Madam, First of all, please accept my apology for the fact that I have been so curmudgeonly of late. I attribute this to an ear infection that has been causing me grief for the last few days. … Continue reading →

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‘Click the tiny square’ — a rant

Posted on February 6, 2021 by pendantry

A few weeks ago — 20Jan2021 to be precise — I encountered a problem with Windows Update: an optional, but ‘recommended’, update that, according to the ‘help’ article about it, should have installed automatically without my intervention. I searched for … Continue reading →

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Feedback for Ocado

Posted on January 27, 2021 by pendantry

This wibblette is in two parts; they are in reverse chronological order, as I wish to begin by highlighting and giving credit to Ocado for being incredibly responsive in this case! The second part is the message I sent to … Continue reading →

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Sign the petition to the UK government for more trees!

Posted on January 26, 2021 by pendantry

tl;dr The UK is hosting the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference and has already enshrined a net zero carbon emissions target in law. Now is the time for the UK government to set a legally-binding tree planting target, in … Continue reading →

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