If all is going according to plan, none of this should mean a whole lot to any of you. I’m posting it partly as a test and partly because lord only knows when it comes to things going according to plan around here. Anyway, I’ve finally gotten around to switching the site over to HTTPS …
Category Archives: other site business
We’re Old Enough To Vote. Woe
I could hardly believe it when it hit me, but today this place turns 18 years old. Seriously, what the hell? Where did all that time go? I’ll spare you all the stuff about how much the world has changed since we started. We’ve done that before and I’m sure we’ll do it again. I’ll …
10000 Posts!
It took us nearly 17 years to get here, but here we are. We have no big plans to celebrate, but it’s certainly worth a mention. 10000 Posts is a pretty good accomplishment for a silly little blog, I think. Hopefully we’ll be around for 10000 more. But will the next 10000 take more or …
Thinking About Changing Our Email Notifications
It might be news to a lot of you, but yes, we do have email notifications. We set them up through Feedburner years ago when we were still on Blogger and they’re still working to this day. A few people even still get them. We haven’t gone out of our way to promote them since …
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Where The Fake Celebrity Ads Come From And How They Work
Perhaps you remember me writing about those damn fake celebrity endorsements that were constantly popping up here and pretty well everywhere else on the internet for a while. If you do, chances are you may be interested in this long article about Ads Inc., one of the companies seemingly responsible for a lot of them. …
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How Was Everyone’s Summer?
Serious question. How in the hell is it Seppa-tebby-tebby already? No, scratch that. How are we already half way through it? I’ve learned especially in the last few years that what older people have always said to me about each year going faster than the last is true. 2019 is absolutely the fastest one yet. …
We Updated WordPress
Since I talked about not doing it, it only seems right to bring it up again now that it’s been done. Yes, we’ve made the switch to WordPress 5, but no, we’re not using the new editor. I haven’t heard anything more about progress on the accessibility front, but what I have heard are several …
No WordPress Gutenberg For Us Just Yet. We Prefer Our Interfaces Accessible
WordPress 5.0 is set to be released tomorrow, and it’s going to be a huuuuuuuuuuuge change. They’re unleashing an entirely new editing and customization system called Gutenberg that’s set to radically change how pretty much everything looks, acts and feels. That link right there will provide you with a fairly simple explanation of what’s happening, …
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Where Did That Fifteen Years Go
Instagram Snapchat Twitter Facebook YouTube That is a short and very incomplete list of websites that the Vomit Comet is both older and slightly less popular than. I was going to make a MySpace joke here, but apparently it beat us online by a couple of months and is rumoured to still exist. But yeah. …
Famous People Are Not Retiring Left And Right So They Can Go Into The Discount Face Glop Business
This is either going to help or it’s going to inadvertently make things even worse because they’re still served partly based on page content, but since I’ve caught these ads running on our site among others many, many times I figure I should mention it. No, Marilyn Denis has not retired so she can spend …