Knowing might lead to change
Users experience systems differently from designers and operators. Problems are usually fixed only when they are known to exist.
What happened?
Good intentions go out the window when life gets busy. I have been meaning to write here for ages and now attempt to explain why that has not happened.
Plausible(?) scam attempt
I sometimes amuse myself by baiting would be scammers. This one was different – polite, plausible, and let down by his barking dog.
Wildflower photographs
It took longer than usual to process photographs from our recent trip to Western Australia. The extra time was needed as I attempted to identify the many wildflowers I photographed.
Moving host
Over the past several months, probably more than a year, I have had intermittent problems with my blogs becoming inaccessible. Mostly I’ve been aware of that because Jetpack has been monitoring and reporting. The outages have generally been brief, though some have lasted hours and even overnight in one case. Sometimes there was a message indicating that the database over...
I broke a blog and had to fix it
Over the past couple of months I’ve done some tinkering with my blogs for various reasons. Part of that involved condensing the installations of my two blogs, here at DrAlb and our travel blog at On the road again, into a single database. I tried using a WordPress network installation and multiple installations using Installatron in a single blog but...