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I’ve been following the news of late, and it is particularly depressing. Professionally, one of the things I hate the most is that philosophy of tearing everything down and then figuring out how to rebuild it, instead of coming up with a thoughtful and well researched plan and then slowly and deliberately implementing it. Not even getting into their views on why or what should replace it, the current US administration seems to want to tear everything down instead of coming up with a plan and then carefully executing.

I’ve been watching the Hamas hostage releases. Whatever you think of the current situation, there are a lot of questions I have about this. Why doesn’t it bother more people that Hamas calls this a victory? That they are dressing people up in outfits meant to look like IDF uniforms so they can claim people they pulled from their beds were soldiers? Where are they getting these uniforms? Where are they printing these backdrops or did they already have them?

For carry on luggage….2 or 4 wheels? Go.

Been watching Interior: Chinatown on Hulu. Didn’t read the book, but interesting story.

Skyliner is nice.

I’m supposed to say Stay Classy San Diego now, right?

A few weeks ago I decided to switch this site to ClassicPress. The recent WordPress drama was merely the final straw.  It was years of the block editor, aka Gutenberg. I want to write content. The block editor feels like I am typesetting a magazine. The classic WordPres...

Reviewed Berkshire Motel

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Their little suites with a bedroom and kitchenette were perfect for my weekend needs.

During this trip, I got frustrated when I made an order in a local business I expressed asked for them not to give me something, Mentioned it three times, asked them to confirm, But brought it back with me to the venue I was at and low and behold…The thing I asked them not to give me. This is like when I go to a restaurant and ask for a my drink with no ice and no lemon and one of those things shows up. I normally don’t write about such things…but I told this story several times to people and I was told that if I told the same story 3 times, it needed to be on my website. So here it is.

I found out why it was harder to get a hotel this weekend in San Diego. Apparently, the American Society of Hematologists is having their annual conference and exhibition. I spent over an hour trying to get a ride out of the airport, surrounded by people with conference swag. Not sure how many attendees, but 32,000 people attended last year according to their site.

I’ve been very reluctant to set defaults for syndication, making options be selected each time instead. This is a bit problematic because I like to reduce friction.

The issue is that I don’t want them to be global. I want them to be a bit more granular.

For example, a hallmark of a note for me is that is doesn’t have an explicit title. Maybe I want all notes to go to all services that support them unless I say otherwise….

I am worried about a mistake I made years ago involving importing old posts… so the code needs to check the published date and not post anything old automatically.

Responses to URLs on a syndication site should automatically go out to that site…but not necessarily to other sites.

I had a discussion about this with my Indieweb associates at IndieWebCamp San Diego and I’m still not sure what I’ll end up doing.

I’ve been diverted to Las Vegas unexpectedly due weather. Joy.

Have been doing a lot of different things lately. 3D printing, organizational stuff, and an unexpected side trip to Ireland for work with an interesting new project to work on there. Makes me fear I’m neglecting my website. So many things I want to do here and with the code that powers it.

Taking an unexpected last minute work trip. Nothing like 4 days at an airport hotel…

Mayor Adams just said in a speech Never Give Up Never Surrender….is he a GalaxyQuest fan?

Going to visit Savannah Georgia next month. Anyone have any suggestions for things to do/see?

Testing embedding links in a Bluesky post.

I have heavily invested in 3d printing this season. I feel the need to justify the cost by printing more things. Time to organize my drawers and cabinets. There seem to be a lot of choices in that area.

  This is my first attempt at soldering switches into a keyboard…in fact, haven’t tried to solder anything since college. I also didn’t like the open board, so tried to 3d print one…from a template…needs refining, but good enough for now.

Have to apologize to Nick Simson. He was having more issues than he should have with the webmentions plugin. Turns out that the Block Editor was hiding the option I kept expecting to be there. Will have to come up with a solution for that.

Does anyone do self-assessments of how they’d quarantine people they share a living space with if they got sick? Doing one of these for family members, sort of like a drill to see how easy it would be to isolate someone. So far, identified several action items.