The Emu Café Social
Nicholas A. Ferrell
The Emu Café Social is a social-publishing site powered by WordPress. Members will be able to use the site to post about what interests them and discuss their external projects. While the site is conducive to short-to-medium-length posts, it also accommodates longer-form writing. By advertising feeds and user profiles, it will be easy for visitors to follow individual writers or to follow the project as a whole. In general, members of the site can and will post about subjects of interest to them.
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Quoted Taking Blogging Seriously (tomcritchlow.com) Of course blogging isn’t just writing. It’s a way of seeing the world with fresh eyes. Blogging is a mindset. In making the case for taking blogging seriously, Tom Critchlow described blogging as a “a way of seeing the world with fresh eyes…” This is a sttrong...
Replied to Google De-Indexed My Entire Bear Blog and I Don’t Know Why by James Zhan (James Zhan in real life.) A month after I started my first Bear blog at blog.james-zhan.com, my blog was entirely de-indexed by Google for no apparent reason. A month after I started my first Bear blog at , my blog was entirely...
From a December 11, 2025 report by Paul for AlternativeTo: Brave has launched its experimental AI browsing feature in the Brave Nightly development channel. This release targets early adopters and invites user feedback to shape future improvements. While Brave’s long-term goal is to evolve the browser into an...
I recently wrote about installing Calibre on Linux the official way. Calibre made news recently for rolling out new AI “features” in the comprehensive open source ebook management program (ironically it was an article about the new AI features which prompted me to open Calibre for the first time in a few weeks to...
From a December 10, 2025 report in TechCrunch: Amazon says it will allow authors to offer their DRM-free e-books in the EPUB and PDF formats through its self-publishing platform, Kindle Direct Publishing. Starting on January 20, 2026, authors who set their titles as DRM-free will see their books made available in...
I keep my ARRIS SURFboard SB8200 modem in my TV cabinet next to my MikroTik hAP ac3 router, which sits between my work desk (two monitors, speakers, mouse, and keyboard) and computer and wireless access point (NETGEAR WAX 202 running OpenWrt). I previously only had two electrical outlets behind my desk, attached to...
I have been running the Arch Linux-based EndeavourOS on my desktop workstation since the summer of 2022. I use Calibre to manage my ebook library. I had previously installed Calibre from the main Arch packages repository. While it always worked as expected, I would often (if not usually, or almost always) see a nag...
Quoted Grizzlies' Ja Morant mum on feelings after return from ban (espn.com) They all might have negative value. How can a talented NBA player have “negative” trade value? Because the NBA has a salary cap and various rules making it impossible or financially punishing to add players beyond a certain threshold, the...
From Reuters on Pope Leo XIV’s recent trip to Beirut: Five years after losing her daughter in a devastating chemical explosion at Beirut’s port, Nelly El Helou said Pope Leo‘s silent prayer at the site on Tuesday was enough to renew hopes that those responsible for the blast would be held to account. While I...
I added an Ads.txt file to this site (see our Ads.txt file). That may sound odd. This site doesn’t have ads! That is true. But I like collecting text files and I learned how to create a properly-formatted Ads.txt file for an ad-free website. For those interested, you can read my new post titled Adding Ads.txt to...
I learned about an upcoming smartphone called the Lotus Diplomat from an article on NotebookCheck (HT to Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony).The Lotus Diplomat looks much like my old BlackBerry Classic, right down to the QWERTY keyboard. According to NoteBook Check, it will have a 5.3 inch display with a resolution of...
I have seen the famous 1939 The Wizard of Oz movie. But was that the first theatrical adaptation of L. Frank Braum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz? Had you asked me before November 17, 2025, I may have tentatively guessed it was. But I now know better thanks to Sterling Dudley writing for Internet Archive Blogs:...
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