Ten years ago I was writing several blogs on various subjects - F1 motor racing, Music, Classic Cars, Great Romances and, most crushingly, a personal journal that included my thoughts on America, memories of England and Africa, opinion, humour, writing and anything else that occurred. It all became too much (I was attempting to update the journal every day) and I collapsed, exhausted and thoroughly disillusioned in the end.
So this blog is indeed a Toe in the Water, a place to document my thoughts in and on WdC but with a determination not to get sucked into the blog whirlpool ever again. Here's hoping.
tj wanderlust-words-in-motion Yeah, Andrea has a couple of sidekicks like Alexa but I won't have any truck with them. I'd rather type than speak. And, to be honest, Andrea seems to spend more time arguing with them than smoothly setting them to work.
We have Alexa, but none of the gadgets that control household functions. She plays music of our choice, sets alarms and reminders, shopping lists, weather reports, about anything we ask of her. But I wondered if she also spied on us as we talked. I asked her if she did, and her response was a creepy mad-scientist's laugh...
Kåre เลียม Enga Much sympathy with what you say. Me, I live in the midst of modern technology thanks to the tastes of others. And I get along with it okay, with just the occasional gripe. As this post evidences!
I need touch... light switch not a lightwitch, a faucet for water, a pot on a burner to boil water, something edible to boil (andouille sausage today not underwear like in the past), a non-adjustable bed. Yadayada...
I had a 5 speed Mazda once. These days I walk... and hold on to rails.
Wise beyond your years, Amethyst. Google may be the ruler of digital space but, when it comes to reality, it seems to be in Lala land. As to what it is, you can make it yours by purchasing a few fancy light bulbs that understand Google speech and the electrical plugs that go with them. It's a sort of cheap and nasty attempt to provide us with a simple system resembling what drives Bill Gates' house.
In fact, those are both elements of childhood nightmares: light switches refusing to function and music I couldn't stop. What is this Google Assistant, a butler in a haunted house?
Egads. I would never do that. Good old fashioned light switches for me. The very thought of random music playing beyond my control within my home is literally the stuff of my nightmares.
Ned The size of the cloud? Now that's an interesting thought. And can it reach a size where it's just so heavy that it falls out of the sky? I'll have to ask Chicken Little about this...
Google Docs has all sorts of templates for various documents. I never use templates but today, being devoid of ideas, I sifted idly through them. There was one for blog posts and I loaded it to see how it performed.
It was horrible. The font sizes were huge, the layout was immovable and so far from my blog’s established layout that there was no way I could show it to you avid readers. Just take my word that it was totally unsuitable for my purposes.
I wasted so much time trying to bend it to my requirements that I would have been able to write three blog posts instead. If I’d had any ideas, of course.
In the end, I decided to squeeze out the one thing the template had taught me.
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