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Now that it has been a couple of years since Apple began requiring administrators to sign in to the News Publisher dashboard or risk their accounts losing their role, there are a few things we have learned: These notifications arrive on...
I suddenly missed this blog. But life has been life-ing, and work has been work-ing, and I accept that I have my ebbs and flows. (Probably why I can no longer sustain a community, except for the one community that I am required and quite...
Played another game of HF4A (with M012 and the Promo Crew Packs). According to BGG, this was my 11th game of HF4A (not counting solitaire) and I have two dozen games of 3rd edition, so I’m not exactly a newbie, but as always there were a...
Blogging life feels a little frantic right now! There are so many new dolls coming into my house, it's hard to keep up. But it's also really fun to be surrounded by so many new things. I wasn't very happy with the new Zuru Spaces room...
BackgroundRewind 18 years and my brother and I were lifting weights in a gym in SoHo, Tampa. I reflect fondly on that time period: Michael and I living together like slobs, pushing each other in the gym, getting swole before his wedding....
The forecast rain for today slid by offshore. The fog, however, is thick and persistent. Waiting for the tide to change so I can begin working my east and north back towards the ramp.
NOTE: This post spoils the whole movie. If you have not seen this film and plan to, don’t read this until you do. The collaboration between Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini is one of the most intriguing in cinema history: one of...
Assumptions set the boundary of the problem space, and also define the region of potential in solution space. We learn about unsaid assumptions during testing solutions by asking questions about the problem space. Agents can help in...
Today’s foodmanteau — the hybrid food’s my very own, composed yesterday (8/22) to be served for the first time today — is biryanestrone = biryani + minestrone The elements: (1) from the Hyderabad Dum Biryani in Mountain View CA, lamb...
One of my splurges is that I buy myself a new phone each year, and for the last several years, the phone I splurge on is the latest iteration of the Pixel phone by Google, usually the “pro” version of the phone, because it’s...
Women of Music - Volume 26Sabine Paturel on cover Alice Ball - The Party Last Night.mp3Amy Beth - My Baby Thinks He's Elvis.mp3Barbara Dane - I'm On My Way.mp3Betty Jean Morris - Shack Daddy.mp3Elaine Mitchem - Wine, Women, & Song...
Tomorrow I’m going back to work after a rather lopsided summer break (not feeling up to it physically or mentally), and the social network pendulum is swinging back into a bit of normalcy as I progressively tune nearly all of them out....
Book 26 for my 2026 goal of 36 books for the year! Still comfortably ahead with my reading. My link to the book is through my bookshop.org affiliate account, which means I may earn a small commission if you buy from there. In my reading...
I like listening to Sarah Longwell's Bulwark podcasts about focus groups, because I like to hear what the people in the focus group are saying. You don't get everything, obviously, but you do get to hear nuggets that Sarah or her team...