Instagram via Spotlight…

I wanted to add the Instagram feed to the site. I think that this is first step of moving my photos off of Instagram all together. (I’m almost off Facebook, have given up my Amazon habit, and am thinking about Apple, can’t imagine what they have in common!!!).

There are PlugIns to do this. One is called Spotlight. I tried to install and then gave up because it said I needed a creator account for Instagram.

Then a miracle. Someone at Spotlight reached out to my email, talked be through the process. And now it all works!!!

So Spotlight is recommended.

The photos are here.

And we’re back…

In June 2023 I woke up on a Saturday morning to over a thousand new emails and was receiving new emails every few seconds.

Step 1 – Change passwords. Thank god for 1Password.

Step 2 – Work out how I’d been hacked. The emails were a clue. I’d been hacked via a WordPress plugin. Once in they’d managed to read my emails. However, I still had access to the console of the hosting company.

Step 3 – Sort out the emails. I’d been subscribed to hundreds of newsletters to camouflage the other stuff they were doing. Email by email, I pieced it all back together.

Step 4 – Recover the stuff that was stolen. Mainly air miles. That took three weeks.

Step 5 – Recover the hacked WordPress site. That took two years. Mainly because I didn’t have the time what with life and stuff. Today it’s back (I hope for good).

What France gets right…

The article isn’t about France but…

France believes that it’s been in crisis for 30 years, that the country is close to a decent in chaos, and yet from the outside…

“I used to wonder: why is France so rich?”

“France gets so much wrong, and yet it still does pretty well on the metrics that actually matter.”

So what actually matters…

“But Ben Southwood has convinced me that France is rich because it gets the big things basically right. Housing supply there is freer: the overall geographic extent of Paris’s metropolitan area roughly tripled between 1945 and today, whereas London’s has grown only a few percent. Infrastructure is better: 29 French cities have trams, versus 11 here (likely one reason its second-tier cities are much more productive than Britain’s). It has nearly 12,000km of motorways versus around 4,000km here – and French motorways tend to be smoother and better kept (and three quarters are tolled, making congestion much less of a problem). Childcare is cheaper: about half the price per month, in part because they require half the staff. Energy is more abundant, as shown above. Because it gets those big four things right, it can afford to get a lot of other things wrong.”

Democracy is the solution to vetocracy – by Sam Bowman

Over the years I’ve had numerous friends leave France to only tell me years later how many of the big things were right and how the small things drove them mad!

The death of the record industry…

 

So there was a massive panic and then the industry realigned to the new reality and now they make more money than ever.

Is this a plan for AI?

SUVs…

Get to the end of this video before you buy your SUV. Yes, I am judging you when you buy one.

These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us – YouTube

Random thoughts…