Category: Computers
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“There Has Been A Critical Error On This Website” – NaBloPoMo #8
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 23287 – 1172 Here’s the haps: The other day I was extolling the virtues of being self-hosted and I still think it’s best for me, but sometimes you hit something that is a mind-bogglingly annoying challenge. Earlier today (I’m writing this on the 8th to post on the…
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Something I Learned about WordPress on NaBloPoMo #7
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 23286 – 1171 Here’s the haps: So, in yesterday’s post I mentioned the fact that I can import photos from my Google photos and it seemed to work just fine. The way it works is that WP imports your photo from Google to your media folder. Along the…
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How To Make An Aluminum Foil Cowboy Hat
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 23222 – 1155 Here’s the haps: On a blog that I follow called NOTES FROM THE CACTUS PATCH, written by Phil Strawn, a teller of tales (Occasionally tall tales) and spinner of yarns from the great state of Texas, there was a post a while back that he…
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About Your Comments…This Website Is A Gateway…
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 23179 – 1144 Here’s the haps: My very dear fans, friends, fiends, foes, foundlings, frolickers, and other respected purveyors of this blog, I have discovered a few posts where you had been so kind to take the time to write a comment and I never answered. I am…
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Weirdness On The Web – Being Ruled By The Big Four
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 23141 – 1138 Here’s the haps: Some of you will remember this meme that I posted on one of my meme dumps: If you’ve ever read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein then you have seen What a benevolent, user-friendly Artificial Intelligence can become. If…
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You Are About To Open 16 Tabs or I Have Decided AI Is Too Stupid To Be Feared, Yet
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22833 – 994 Here’s the haps: I got this new journal from Amazon the other day because I really liked the cover. It was one of those things that just jumped right off the page and said, “BUY ME!” I worked for a big-name insurance company in the…
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Nonce Nonsense – Timeout!
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22773 – 987 Here’s the haps: I am getting some pictures ready from our campout but I need to find out a little unrelated info from you all, dear Readers, if you please. I was just informed by one of my commenters that when they tried to comment…
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Blogging A – Z Challenge 2022: R is for The Robots Really Will Win
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22718 – 968 Here’s the haps: Many of you know that, growing up, I was a bookworm. This worried a lot of family members so much that I was sent to the grandparents in the country frequently and one whole summer I spent on my uncle’s dairy farm.…
