Category: Wordpress

luke the pool ginger

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Early morning and the Gingers are patrolling the screened-in pool area. I like the practice of attempting to photograph cats in motion. Images of partial cat photos abound on my camera cards, and the majority get scrubbed. Now I just wait until they decide to stop and rest.

Taken with the Pen F, 1.8/45mm, and Mono 2 with personal adjustments SOOC. And for the digirati who demand all images be post processed (and I’m looking at you Phoblographer), we were given RAW to work with in the 2000s as an acknowledgement by all the camera makers that their internal JPEG engines were very poor. Today’s engines are excellent.

And as another experiment I wrote this using the WordPress smartphone apps, both Android and iOS. They differ greatly in their functionality, with the Android version being the much worse of the two. Started on Android, finished on iOS.

Finally finally, I had to come back into this with the web-based editor and add the paragraph breaks back in again. I don’t ask for much, but when I put blank lines between my paragraphs I expect them to survive publication, even via the apps. The app will be limited to just roughing out drafts until I can get back to a Decent Editor to finish them out. And whomever is in charge of the WordPress smartphone apps needs to really test them before pushing them out. They’ve both got real obvious bugs and the “experience” between Android and iOS is obviously not the same, at least to me.

a change to arcane science lab

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I’ve upgraded my site plan from Personal to Business. WordPress/Automattic offered 20% off their yearly business plan, so starting in July I’m going with their Business plan for just 12 months (they offered two years at that discount, but I felt one year for me to decide was enough). It’s as much an experiment for me as well as for my readers. I’ve already taken some small advantage of the new plan by changing my theme and tweaking that a bit into something I like better than what I had before. Hopefully my audience will like it as well.

I’ve had an idea of going more towards the professional/business side of things for a while now. To be sure my site isn’t here to directly generate income, so you’ll see no ads on the site (it was one reason I paid for the Personal plan, to get rid of ads). Automattic’s business plan also has a number of interesting additional features that the personal plan didn’t that I’d like to try.

As I said I’ll give this a year. Which means for me a lot more writing that what I’ve been producing in the past twelve months. I’m approaching my half-way point in my 60’s and I’m wanting to evolve this site into a tool that can support me as I begin to transition towards a way of life that isn’t 8-to-6 centric. It means a bit more discipline not only in posting but how I write as well. I won’t go back and curate earlier posts, that ship has already sailed as it were. But going forward it does mean careful, thoughtful, more adult writing. Frankly, I hope my audience picks up a bit as well. But that won’t happen unless I write what people want to come and read.

Here’s to a different future with Arcane Science Lab.

Update

I’ve added the Golang category to the Menu at the top, in order to make it easy to get to what I write in Go.