Testing to see if I have Bluesky integration working again.
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If aliens arrived tomorrow, what’s the first thing you’d ask them?
If aliens arrived tomorrow, what’s the first thing you’d ask them?
View all responsesOK, WordPress has this daily prompts feature to try and encourage people — who may need a little encouragement — to write something for their blogs. Often the prompt is something insightful, but occasionally, they post one like the above and I wind up giving it more thought than I probably should. If aliens were to arrive tomorrow, I’d love to think I’d ask them some deep profound question but I think what I’d ask them is, “Did you guys get lost?”
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The chicken or the egg?
I rushed to make Jenn scrambled eggs and sausage for breakfast while in a meeting, trying to get everything done before she tried getting out of bed herself. Instead of sausage patties, I accidentally grabbed chicken nuggets and didn’t realize it until after they were cooked. When she sat down to it, she looked at it for a minute and then asked, “Which did you make first?” “Sorry Jenn,” I said, “I guess we still don’t know which came first: the chicken or the egg.” Her response, “Oh well, maybe next time we’ll know.”
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Short-form blogging on WordPress, a new feature just introduced
I really love this feature, so posting in case it’s of interest to others. It’s another way to use WordPress especially if you’re looking to produce content that falls somewhere between a long-form blog post and a short-form social media type post.
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The 2025 Apple Event and my attempt to live blog from an accessibility perspective
In just a few minutes, the 2025 live Apple Event will begin. Will we see new iPhones? A new watch? other new Apple things? Generally, this is where all the shiny new Apple stuff is announced — at least most of it. I’m going to be watching it live and, as an experiment, am going to try and live blog my thoughts and observations as replies to this thread. If you’re reading this live, refreshing the thread should show any new comments. If you’re reading this after the fact, the replies section should show any new comments. If this experiment totally fails, well, then I’m not sure what will happen. 🙂 Either way, I’m excited to see what Apple has in store for us during their 2025 event.
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Sad to see Blogging platform Typepad is shutting down after 22 years, giving customers about a month to migrate away
Over the weekend, I saw the following referenced in an Email newsletter:
We have made the difficult decision to discontinue Typepad, effective September 30, 2025.
Typepad is shutting down – Everything Typepad
What Does This Mean for You?
After September 30, 2025, access to Typepad – including account management, blogs, and all associated content – will no longer be available. Your account and all related services will be permanently deactivated.
Please note that after this date, you will no longer be able to access or export any blog content.https://everything.typepad.com/blog/2025/08/typepad-is-shutting-down.html
For those who might never have heard of Typepad, it was (and I guess still technically is) a blogging platform started in 2003. Over the years, Typepad has been used by numerous organizations including Time, MSNBC, Wired, the CBC, the BBC and others. The platform was also used by many individuals who just wanted a place to blog — a place to build their home on the web. Typepad provided a way for people and organizations to tell their stories and it is through those stories that I discovered Typepad and so much more.
Over the 22 years Typepad has been around, many blogging platforms and communities have come and gone. Still, 22 years is quite a long run and there are people who have been blogging on it since its very beginning. Nevertheless, on 08/28, it was announced that the service would be shutting down and that after 09/30, it would no longer be possible to export any content. To be fair, Typepad published an FAQ that discusses different ways of exporting content from their service, however, it still gives their customers only about a month to find a new home on the web, become familiar with how that new home works, and then tackle migrating potentially decades of data.
While I’m saddened to see yet another blogging platform go away, I appreciate the role Typepad has played over the past 22 years in helping organizations and individuals share stories, experiences, and information with the world. For me this is also yet another reminder of how important it is to maintain control and ownership over my content because you never know what might happen, or when it might become necessary to move that content somewhere else.
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Artist sculpts famous works of art for visually impaired to enjoy
My sister shared me this story and I thought it was so neat that I wanted to share it with all of you. Note, when activating this link, you may need to find an unmute button as for me anyway, the video starts playing on mute.