Updated post about Wi-Fi 6 on my website:
“Upgrading your home network to Wi-Fi 6 will give you the full benefit of a fast broadband connection.”
On reflection, “an infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of typewriters” sums up the modern internet rather well.
I would prefer it if my iMac warned me the mouse battery was flat before it got as low as 2%. That’s “drop what you are doing and recharge” territory, I’d prefer to know at the “when you next take a break” stage.
Project Auckland: All you need is . . . love
Here’s a feature I wrote for the NZ Herald about a new approach to urban planning. Michala Lander wants to create places we love.
Project Auckland: All you need is . . . love
Here’s a feature I wrote for the NZ Herald about a new approach to urban planning. Michala Lander wants to create places we love.
Exciting. My copy of the ITP book has arrived. I wrote the chapter on New Zealand telecommunications.
I’m on my third or fourth day of having a really mild dose of Covid. Clearly the vaccine has helped smooth out the rough edges. Main symptoms are headaches and general, non-specific discomfort. Find work a struggle, brain fog fades in and out.
This is interesting. I found as a journalist I need to be more thorough in my preparation and write more notes prior to a Zoom call, I find in-the-room interviews tend to produce better results.
Workers think less creatively in Zoom meetings, study finds - Psychology - The Guardian
One thing I will miss if Twitter crashes and burns is all the helpful expert advice and knowledge you can read there on every subject under the sun. The sheer volume of experts is astounding.
Wrote this for the Network for Learning blog.
I think I’ve done this before, but can anyone remind me how to get this working?
From indiewebify.me:
micro.blog/billbenne… does not link back
In the Beginning was the Website
“Even if the entire IndieWeb consisted of a single personal website, it would still “work”, in the sense that the owner of the website would be in control of their own content and would still be able to share that content with their friends on (say) Twitter.”
Syndication Links now supports per-post syndication to Micro.blog from WordPress
indiwebify.me reports that “micro.blog/billbenne… does not link back”. Is that normal? If not, what do I need to do to fix it?
What happened to tagging? We did
www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/what…
I used tags a lot back when they were hot. I still use them a little on MacOS to, well, tag files.
But I never was 100 percent on top of what they were for. Sometimes they were useful as a way of finding related things… but sometimes not.
For me it felt like there was something powerful and useful that was just beyond my grasp. Never did discover what that was.
I’m interested to know how I can use the WordPress Indyweb Post Kinds Like option (Plugin by @dshanske). Does the site I want to like have to be indyweb enabled or will it work for any site?
Microsoft dabbling with Android devices…. I can’t decide if this is a stroke of genius or a sign the end times are upon us.
Spark marks Te Reo Māori week with Kupu update
Spark has updated its free Kupu Te Reo Māori mobile app and included a version for desktop computers and tablets.
The original app was launched a year ago in a joint project with Te Aka Māori Dictionary and Google. In that time it had over 177,000 downloads, over 2.7million translated images and around 6000 daily users.
So Westpac gave me a new credit card after a security scare. No problem. Until today. My domain registration should have auto-renewed, but it failed because of the new card. Even though I manually paid the invoice, my site and email have been offline now for 48 hours.
Found a web site that blatantly scraps my site and publishes my stories under its own bylines removing any internal links. Sure this has always happened, but the latest example is the most extreme copyright theft I’ve seen in recent times.
It may be in bad taste to say this now, but when Queen Elizabeth departs, we should replace the Queen’s Birthday public holiday with Matariki.
When I was a child in the UK, a TV advert would tell me: “A million housewives every day would pick up a tin of beans”. I now suspect that was never true.
KDC’s attempt to buy an election and some of his antics around that time flopped badly, it came out of that looking worse than when he went in.
Dotcom hasn’t been treated well by New Zealand. That said, there is (or was) a case to answer. Mind you it was cowardly to single out KDC for punishment when he was doing what some of the biggest (and richest) brands in the world were doing.
I no longer need to keep an objective distance about Kim Dotcom. Sure he is dodgy, but despite the vast wealth he made, it’s Dell-boy dodgy, not helicopters and armed-raid dodgy.
/1