When I setup the site’s subscription facility I missed a couple of aspects that I wasn’t aware of (for you techies, I hadn’t configured cron jobs). The problem is fixed. Here are the key posts of the last month which you will have missed, in order of newest to oldest: Read more…
Here’s an experiment on embedding a Vimeo instead of a YouTube video: You gotta love the Gutenberg editor in WordPress. It has a block as part of its block structure to embed Vimeo as well as a number of other media formats. It just makes the content provider’s life easier. Read more…
Last updated by The POOG on August 30, 2020. I’ve completed a study of literature on the efficay of the different types of masks available to the public: Disease Transmission and Masks. One study noted that aerosol transmission is the prevalent form of infection. On this basis, face shields which Read more…
In the 1990s, as a computer science undergrad, I had to take an arts course and chose linguistics. In it, I encountered Noam Chomsky and his theory of transformational grammar which I enjoyed. Subsequently I knew that Chomsky had moved into the realm of political protest. More recently he adopted Read more…
Easily a dozen years ago I looked at e-readers. Since reading books is a difficult and arduous process I had stopped reading around that time. I like to own my books and fill a shelf with them. This desire carried over into the electronic realm. My assessment of Amazon’s Kindle Read more…
When I started sending out music links in emails it was to bring music to those from whom it has been taken by the state – namely churchgoers and choir members. Most of it has been a cappela singing which I have a passion for. Over time, I have become Read more…
My wife borrowed a device called the Google Mini (appliance). Like Amazon’s Echo with Alexa, it is the device connecting the user to the company’s AI algorithms (algos) in the cloud thorough voice recognition and interpretation. I struggle with it every night in setting it for bedtime music. I would Read more…