TiddlyWiki’s startup behavior is easily customizable. You open up $:/DefaultTiddlers and put in a list of what you want to have open, and those are the tiddlers you have open. To make it even easier […]
No longer a Mild-Mannered Retailer
A couple of days ago, I renamed my blog tag “Mild-Mannered Retailer”, with which I collected my stories of work-related folly, chicanery, and bullshit, to “Mild-Mannered Laborer”.
I did this because I’m not a retailer any more. […]
Why the plastic-bag ban is bad for me, personally
My local rulers recently banned the use of disposable plastic shopping bags. Their stated goal was to promote the use of reusable bags and probably something about the environment.
I was unhappy about this. I’m usually unhappy when technocracy rears its ugly, empty head, but above and beyond that, this has make my life worse in a few small but noticeable ways. […]
Stupid tiddler tricks: the emergency data dump
One of the reasons I’ve been trying to trim my TiddlyWiki’s size down is to spend as little time as possible looking at the Red Box of Death: […]
The case of the Peterborough perv cams
Britain: IKEA has removed hidden security cameras from its warehouse in Peterborough, England, after an employee spotted one in the […]
The real estate commission protection act of 2021
Dateline Oregon (MSN): Starting in January, a real estate agent must reject any communication that would reveal the buyer’s race, […]
Stupid tiddler tricks: the local iframe
17 megabytes in size. I also mentioned an older wiki in the progress of being slowly imported and reorganized, but didn’t mention that it’s over 52 MB. […]
“Stop! I own Hela!”
Here’s a copyright notice I noticed recently: […]
Stupid tiddler tricks: the daily oldest
I use TiddlyWiki a lot. I use it as a journal, a book and image catalog, an archive of news articles, a to-do list, a notepad, a draft notebook for blog posts like this one and backup repository for finished posts… […]
Android System Intelligence, definitions 1 and 2
I updated my phone recently, and soon afterward I noticed an available update from something called “Android System Intelligence, which I hadn’t ever heard of before. I certainly hadn’t installed it, and I hadn’t seen any updates for it before despite having used Android phones since Gingerbread was a thing. […]
Ray of Infamy 