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News for those who follow this blog by email

At the end of October, some of you who follow this blog by email started reporting to me […]

November 6, 2020 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Follower email from this site may have problems with images

Mainly a test of image alignment and scaling to work around a problem appearing in follower email versions of this blog.

November 4, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Accessing this blog – news feeds and pages

Details of how to get different news feeds from each part of this blog, and how to find information from its over 5,000 articles.

April 27, 2020 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Uncertain times

A few months ago, we all felt that we lived in uncertain times, but I suspect none of […]

March 19, 2020 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Spam comments turn nasty: blackmail and ransom demands

In the stream of spam comments, a new and even more unwelcome message threatening to get your blog blacklisted unless you pay them a Bitcoin.

May 28, 2019 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Comments to all articles welcomed again

I have now returned this blog’s settings to normal again, which enables you to make comments to all […]

March 15, 2019 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Temporary restrictions on posting comments

I’m afraid that once again this blog is receiving a torrent of hundreds of attempts to post comment […]

March 13, 2019 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Under spam attack again: commenting requires login (temporary measure)

I am afraid that this blog has once again been under a spam attack all day, in which […]

February 8, 2018 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology, xattr

Temporarily restricted comments on this blog due to spam attack (updated)

For the last thirty hours or so, this blog – and I suspect other WordPress blogs – have […]

January 21, 2018 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology, xattr

Review: MarsEdit 4, the blogger’s world

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Should you switch or upgrade to MarsEdit 4? Having used it heavily for the last few days to manage nearly 3,000 articles here, I think I have a clear answer.

December 9, 2017 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

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