I have a Google account, of course. It’s easy to not rely on Google, but hard to do without entirely. I’m old enough to have had a Google account for years […]

I have a Google account, of course. It’s easy to not rely on Google, but hard to do without entirely. I’m old enough to have had a Google account for years […]
I don’t remember what prompted me to install a mobile game last week. I’d read a listicle about decent mobile games, but this wasn’t one of them. I assume that, while I was checking one of those games out, I looked at Google Play’s recommendations and saw this thing, blandly called “Wood Block Puzzle.” […]
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 […]
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. […]
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. […]
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: […]
Britain: IKEA has removed hidden security cameras from its warehouse in Peterborough, England, after an employee spotted one in the […]
Dateline Oregon (MSN): Starting in January, a real estate agent must reject any communication that would reveal the buyer’s race, […]
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. […]
Here’s a copyright notice I noticed recently: […]