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Stop thinking

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…and a good deal on Flickr.

Spotted online, this cartoon:

And with all the existential dread going around, the crow’s reaction is completely understandable.

Less thinking, people.

On a more positive note, I decided to cancel my Flickr subscription today. It’s expensive and so I either had to use it more or I have to move on, and I haven’t been using it more, so…

I’ve still got a few months left on my existing subscription, but when I told them I was going to cancel, they offered me 65% off my renewal. I’ve taken the offer, but if I don’t start using the service more between now and then, I might cancel anyway.

I’ll think about it.

About the blog

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It’s weird, isn’t it?

Not the blog, (Although…)

Last night, out for dinner, lovely evening. The blog thing came up. And our friends said:

It’s amazing that you find something to write about each day.

And we laughed.

But it kind of is, given that it’s been 11½ years. But there have been a lot of days when I can’t think of anything, and suddenly this is one of them. Bit meta.

Still managed a post though.

Again.

Lazy

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Midday loadshedding, and I could be in the gym doing my 10km resistance biking for the day. But I’m inside playing Geoguessr and writing a blog post. I’m just not feeling it today, and I’ve decided to give my legs a day off. No excuses tomorrow, though (not that I really had one today).

The long weekend in South Africa (Freedom Day yesterday, pseudo-holiday today, Worker’s Day on Monday) allows for a braai this evening, an anniversary meal out tomorrow evening, a recovery day on Sunday and then lunch in the Winelands on Monday. While everything else is falling apart in the country, at least the lifestyle continues to deliver the goods.

There are, of course, a few jobs to be done as well (plus those workouts), but I will fit them in around the food and the football. Blog posts will continue on a daily basis, because what would you do for entertainment otherwise?

Oh, and just a little reminder:

Still bouncing…

Thanks, NICD

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Yesterday, this from the National Institute of Communicable Diseases, an organisation for whom I have a lot of time:

But while that’s good advice, the headline isn’t right. And I said so:

I thought that it had fallen upon deaf ears. But then, today, this:

Was it me? Was it not? Either way:

Thanks, NICD.

Oh, and (South African) reader: go and get your flu jab.

Can Jetpack still share blog posts to Twitter?

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Look, we’ve been through this. Firstly here, and then more recently, here. But twitter is falling apart.

The third party mobile apps disappeared, and then the first party web app stopped working. Instagram won’t share images to Twitter anymore, and yesterday, when I posted this post, the Jetpack plugin failed to connect to Twitter. And it doesn’t seem like the issue is at this end:

Jetpack is the plugin that 6000.co.za (and many thousands of other websites) use to tell people that there’s a new blog post fresh and ready for them to read. And now it’s not working – on Twitter at least. It’s still happily telling my Facebook fans that there’s been an update, and it would still post to LinkedIn if I wanted it to.

I don’t want it to.

Anyway, it seems likely that one of two things has happened here. Either, being allowed to connect to twitter from Jetpack (and Instagram) is now something that is now only allowed for paid accounts (no, I’m not going to), or something at twitter is broken because they (he) sacked all the competent staff.

Either way, there does seem to be a real rush to load a lot of straws onto the camel’s back to see what effect it will have.

EDIT: And, as Ian Betteridge predicted, no, it can’t.