Category Archives: Phlyarology

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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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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Scribble: Rant – No Variations on the Theme, redirector

Posted on February 19, 2021 by pendantry

Originally posted on Scribblans:
Visitors to this blog yesterday would have seen the site using a new look. It’s something I had been playing with for a week or so, on and off, and I had finally decided that this…

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What makes the number 61 special?

Posted on February 15, 2021 by pendantry

‘Sixty-one’ is special to me today: no prizes for guessing why that might be! There are also no prizes for winning the quiz below§, which I am proud to present in 61’s honour. In my opinion, 61 is almost perfect. … Continue reading →

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Get my eBook for FREE today!

Posted on February 15, 2021 by pendantry

Grab your towel, froods! Although it has nothing at all to do with The Hitchhiker’s Guide… On 15Feb2021* my eBook is available totally FREE! Just click on this link right here to get it. If you don’t have a Kindle,don’t … 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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Goodbye Donald T****

Posted on January 22, 2021 by pendantry

Good riddance to bad rubbish.May he disappear (just as he promised he would!) And may the lessons learned never be forgotten.

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The President Just Called To Steal The Election

Posted on January 5, 2021 by pendantry
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All I Want For Christmas…

Posted on December 26, 2020 by pendantry
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