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• Blogger's new user-hostile interface and other atrocities
  on Jan 2, 2013 in Google+ Blogger blogging WordPress
  I din't think I would post again on this blog at this site, since I moved it to here.The main reason for moving was the new user-hostile user interface and reduced graphics functionality.But now something else has cropped up. I still have a family hi...
• This blog has moved
  on Sep 20, 2012
  This blog has moved to http://ondermynende.wordpress.com/The foisting of the new user-hostile Blogger interface on users was the last straw. In addition, it seems that a lot of the old functionality has been lost. Wordpress was always better for...
• Overdone stuff on Facebook
  on Sep 19, 2012 in cartoons Facebook atheism propaganda pictures religion Hillary Clinton status
  On Facebook recently there seems to be a proliferation of pictures to illustrate sayings, slogans or cliches.It tends to be the opposite of the "Occupy" movement -- 99% are bad or meaningless, and a waste of bandwidth. The words themselves aren't wor...
• Dog with a problem
  on Sep 15, 2012 in dogs pets home
  Val was moving bricks from one side of our ruin to the other, but our dog Samwise kept making things difficult by trying to bite the wheelbarrow wheel.Then he dropped his ball into the wheelbarrow."There it is, throw it for me."Val ignored it and kep...
• Aftermath - book review
  on Sep 10, 2012 in police procedural books Aftermath Peter Robinson book reviews Inspector Banks
  Aftermath by Peter RobinsonMy rating: 3 of 5 starsThis book began pretty well, and I thought it was one of Peter Robinson's best. Perhaps that was because i had not read one for a long time, or had read too many Scandinavian whodunits in between. It...
• Postponing the inevitable
  on Sep 10, 2012 in blogging software Blogger
  I see the message about the new Blogger interface has been reduced from months to mere days. How dreadful!The old Blogger interface will be removed in the coming days. We've made many improvements to the new Blogger interface. Learn more You can upgr...
• Does Facebook's targeted advertising work?
  on Sep 6, 2012 in Facebook advertising profiles privacy
  We are told that Facebook uses our profile information to show us ads that are most likely to be interesting to us. How Facebook Ads Work - Social Ads Tool:You are what you LikeFacebook Ads are targeted according to your Facebook Profile information:...
• Is Bravenet going the way of Geocities?
  on Sep 5, 2012 in free web hosting Bravesites web entropy broken links Bravehost Bravenet expired sites
  Bravenet, a public web hosting site, appears to be set to follow Geocities into oblivion.Someone asked me for a reference to an academic article I had written and put on the web, but on trying to find it, found a message to say that the site had "exp...
• Diet, fasting and the environment
  on Sep 4, 2012 in nistisimo fasting bottled water fasting food ecology water grain-fed environment tap water
  I've read a number of blog posts recently about eating and drinking and the environment, and this one suggests that we should drink water to save water The Green Phone Booth: Drink Water!Well, I have to admit that in addition to drinking plain water,...
• Marriage Equality
  on Sep 1, 2012 in ménage à trois homosexual marriage polygamy marriage equality social and domestic partnerships polyandry statism marriage
  In Brazil a civil union between a male and two females had been described as "unprecedented". In Brazil perhaps, but not in the world. They need look no further than our esteemed president.Unprecedented civil union unites Brazilian trio - CNN.com:In...

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