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Category Archives: Phlyarology
How to time travel using WordPress
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
Posted in ... wait, what?, Communication, Computers and Internet, Education, Phlyarology
Tagged permalink, scheduling, TARDIS, time travel, Wordpress
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Scribble: Rant – No Variations on the Theme, revisited
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
Scribble: Rant – No Variations on the Theme, redirector
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…
What makes the number 61 special?
‘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
Get my eBook for FREE today!
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
Posted in ... wait, what?, Fantasy, Phlyarology, Science Fiction
Tagged #towelday, eBook, free, The Eclectic
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A letter to The Co-operative Bank — a rant
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
Posted in ... wait, what?, Business, Communication, Computers and Internet, Critiques, Phlyarology
Tagged ethics, fraud, HCI, software
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‘Click the tiny square’ — a rant
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
Posted in ... wait, what?, Communication, Computers and Internet, Education, Phlyarology
Tagged checkbox, HCI, KB4598502, Microsoft, user interface, Windows Update
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Goodbye Donald T****
Good riddance to bad rubbish.May he disappear (just as he promised he would!) And may the lessons learned never be forgotten.
Posted in art, balance, Communication, Education, History, Just for laughs, News and politics, People, Phlyarology
Tagged Donald Trump
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The President Just Called To Steal The Election
Posted in ... wait, what?, Communication, Drama, Just for laughs, Music, News and politics, People, Phlyarology
Tagged A Late Show, Donald Trump, Stephen Colbert
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All I Want For Christmas…
Posted in ... wait, what?, art, Culture, Fantasy, Just for laughs, Phlyarology, Poetry, Science Fiction
Tagged Jean-Luc Picard, Q, Star Trek, TNG
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