mpclark

I heard that farmers ‘spray off’ the crop to kill it to make harvesting easier.

Those who are currently publishing will tell you otherwise; traffic from Google has dropped off a cliff. There’s a little bit of long tail, but nothing like the volumes the tech media built its businesses around.

I’ve recently changed career in the UK — I’ve gone from web dev to a passenger train conductor/manager. The conditions are excellent, the money is terrific for the work involved, and overall the experience is very rewarding. I couldn’t be happier.

They absolutely are! She just looks a little different.

"a European federation" != "The European Federation"

I’ve used my Dualit almost daily since 1992. Still in tip-top condition, though it has had two sets of new heating elements at a cost of about £30 each time.

I suspect OP is referring to the presence of newts or bats or greater-crested hedge warblers etc, which can put a stop on building work for literally years in the UK

It hinges on different definitions of quality, I think...

Ow! That's nearly half an Activision...

That would be good too. Let's do both!

Well, from where I sit it looks like one formerly popular political party has seen what's coming up in its horoscope and has pinned its last hopes on turning these quality-of-life measures -- which it previously vociferously supported -- into a wedge issue by whipping up a frenzy around ThE wAr On DrIvErS!11!

We've had a 20mph limit in towns here in Wales for a couple of weeks now. It seems to be going well where I am; the traffic is noticeably slower during the day (though the people who hoon about at night are still doing it) and the only negative effect I've noticed so far is it might be fractionally harder (as in one has to wait longer) to cross the road at places other than designated crossings, presumably because the traffic is now distributed slightly differently.

IME a lot of these people are middle men -- though it looks like it, they aren't actually offering to buy a link; they'll just add you to the list of sites willing to sell links that they hawk around to other site operators (via spam, natch)

Also, when I see prices mentioned, they tend to be in the $10-$50 range. But that could just be the tier my sites are in, I guess.

All that aside, it's an absolute no from me. Lie down with dogs, get fleas.

I get to see them flying at low level pretty much daily, as I live on the Mach Loop in Wales where they practice. The howl as they go over never gets old, though I guess I’d feel very differently if they weren’t just training.

What are savvy folks using instead of Mailchimp nowadays? I run a B2B news site and use Mailchimp for its daily and weekly newsletters. I like that MC handles the subscriber management and deliverability side of things, but they seem to be moving away from doing email well and towards random value added small biz marketing stuff. And my monthly bill has almost doubled since the Intuit acquisition.

...and practically speaking, it is really hard to get in and out of Monaco (there are only a few roads in and out and traffic moves slowly) and everywhere is covered by cameras. Anyone who tried a street robbery likely wouldn't make it very far at all.

Become a Freemason. It’s an excellent way to ‘go horizontal’ by meeting a lot of decent people (well, men) from all walks of life and with many different experiences to share. You will find inspiration, fellowship and real life there.

Here in the UK there don’t seem to be too many techies in the Masons as yet, but I suspect this will grow as WFH does and people look to replace missing face-to-face relationships.

If I was a propagandist, this is the second order effect I'd want to see. If people don't lap up my story, inducing apathy is the next best thing.

In a previous life I banked with Coutts. They were very pro online banking and security very early on. From the mid nineties to early noughties I was handling my account online and was given a physical securid token (Remember them? Like a thick credit card with an LCD display that generated a new OTP every 60 seconds) to deal with the login. But then they were absorbed into NatWest, and I expect their approach to IT changed.

This is a headline, not British English ;)

Thing is, though, you really do need that second helicopter pad. That way, when yours is parked up there, you can still receive visitors. It’s not easy being rich.

nazis != Nazis

Feedburner is a zombie product now, and has been for a few years.

The explanation is really, really easy though. Nearly all the advertising has gone away. There's no money in the business past chum boxes now. And the same is happening to the trade press and specialist magazines and all the other good media things we used to have. Not all progress is forward progress.

That’ll be (part of) why doors often also have a similarly designed ‘kick plate’ on the bottom edge

Absolutely. "In the UK you can pay a bill with a cheque, and in the US you can settle a check with a bill"

Jigsaw identification is a real thing, and real journalists are taught about it as part of defamation awareness.

Related story: when I was the deputy editor of a paper in a large UK city I was read in on the approximate locations of people known to be on our patch who were subjects of injunctions protecting their identities, just so that we didn’t accidentally reveal anything that could expose their whereabouts when reporting seemingly unconnected events such as house fires etc.

This is an artefact of a club, not freemasonry. One could level this accusation at golf, private members or country clubs, for instance.

I’m a mason. It’s a force for good in my life. Some like to emphasise the mystique around Freemasonry but, seriously, it’s like amateur dramatics meets a supper club. I enjoy the fellowship and the local connections that I have built as my work life is online, remote and global. If you think it may be something you’d enjoy you’ve got nothing to lose if you contact your local lodge to express interest, and contrary to popular belief it is a simple matter to disengage if it’s not for you after all.

So do I literally just put...

Header set Permissions-Policy: interest-cohort=()

...into my site's .htaccess and that's it, job done?