After some weeks of contemplation, I’ve decided to change themes. It’s a huge decision this time, because there will be no going back. Beacon, the theme you’ve been seeing for a number of years, has been retired by WordPress. If I change my mind about the new one, there will be lots of others to … Continue reading Fair warning
By now most everyone knows that CEO Mark Zuckerberg has changed Facebook’s name to Meta, as in metaverse. Nice try, Zuck, but you aren’t fooling anyone. Nobody is losing sight of Facebook’s many shortcomings. Not for a second. You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig. And this distraction/deflection is not … Continue reading Lipstick on a pig
I don’t know how many of my readers are WordPress bloggers, but those who are will probably understand. This afternoon I was previewing a bunch of new blog themes and accidentally activated one of them. Yikes! I flipped back and forth between several views, just to be sure. And there was no doubt. The theme … Continue reading Oops, I did it again
I’ve been playing with this blog behind the scenes (or I hope it was behind the scenes) and somehow deleted the comments on my previous post about the bear cub. My apologies; it was entirely unintentional. I value every one of your comments and would not deliberately delete your remarks. Maybe WordPress can help. We’ll … Continue reading Mea culpa, readers
WordPress really upset the apple cart a few nights ago by converting all users to their new “block editor.” Readers who don’t blog on WP won’t understand or care what that means but basically it means they’ve taken away the toolbox we’ve been using for many years and left us with a scrambled pile of … Continue reading The WordPress apple cart
I’ve often ranted about the evils of Facebook and yet, I confess, I’ve continued to have my WordPress posts auto-posted to Facebook. Well, that ends today. This is the last post of mine you’ll see on FB. If you normally read my stuff on FB, you can subscribe by email and be notified of my … Continue reading Hasta la vista, Facebook
