Wanted: a black comedy starring George Clooney all about the 2016 electors. Something with the feel of The Men Who Stare at Goats.
Month: November 2016
Preventing Spam iCloud Calendar Invites
How do I prevent this from happening in the future? How the hell did it happen? Turns out it’s Apple again – thinking they know better for how you want to use e-mail and calendars. Thankfully there is an option to prevent the forced invites.
My wife got one of these last night attached to one of our shared calendars. The instructions here can help you prevent them and get rid of any you’ve already received.
Around this time every year, I start to want a video game console. And then I talk myself out of it. “When would you have time to play it?”
I hope I’m as handsome as Clark Gregg when I’m his age.
Jenkins is a terrible CI system. So much babysitting. I’d rather be working.
Study: Apple Pay branding on vending machines increases mobile payment usage 135%, overall sales by 36%
The study shows that Apple Pay messaging specifically helped increase mobile transactions by as much as 135%, while transactions in general were up 44.6% and overall sales up 36.5%.
I’ve been noticing an increase in the number of places that accept Apple Pay, and I use it every chance I get. Glad it’s catching on.
Brent Simmons on Leaving Twitter
Brent Simmons left Twitter, and I completely understand why:
And then [Twitter] was part of the system that helped elect a fascist President. This tipped it over for me: it’s no longer worth my participation. The shitheads can have it.
I’m hoping for Twitter to utterly capsize soon for no other reason than to remove one of Trump’s bullhorns.
How Facebook Warps Our Worlds – NYTimes.com
By bookmarking given blogs and personalizing social-media feeds, we customize the news we consume and the political beliefs we’re exposed to as never before. And this colors our days, or rather bleeds them of color, reducing them to a single hue.
I’ve been wondering about this for years. We make our own bubbles. This helps to confirm my suspicions.
Both kids sick again. Made it almost a week!
A headache so bad that it hurts to move. Thanks, Tuesday.