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urls, wordpresser

URLs "p1" 20190715 – 74 VHQ resources, including heavy reading

I am an avid WWW surfer, with hundreds of websites visited each month, sometimes daily. I bookmark them all, at least for logging purposes. These posts having the "urls" category, capture what was on my browser on a specific date. I hope you enjoy some of these shared resources.

productivity, wordpresser

Productivity: force Firefox to ask you which profile to use

In my view, Firefox is the best web browser, considering a mix of criteria, including the freedom and trust that comes with its open source nature. However, it should be more “profile centric”. Too many people work with a single Firefox “profile”, and that profile probably has a crazy random name assigned upon installation, which is a lost opportunity for improved productivity.
I create multiple Firefox profiles and use them for different purposes: discovery, regular destinations, home network destinations, etc.
One part of using multiple Firefox “profiles” is forcing Firefox to ask you which profile to use, every time you launch it. To do it, you’ll have to edit the Firefox shortcut and add it the arguments “-no-remote -ProfileManager”

In my case, the full shortcut reads:

C:\wp\inet\ffox\firefox.exe -no-remote -ProfileManager

Odds are that your path will be different.

The image should make it clearer what “editing” the shortcut is. To get there, right-click the Firefox icon, choose “properties”, and then pick the “shortcut” tab.

Tweets, wordpresser

Today's my_dot_com tweets

Today, 2019-07-14, I did four tweets via my “my_dot_com” Twitter account: https://twitter.com/my_dot_com

About ebay.com’s handling of site language:
@ebay site handling of language is a mess. It presents itself to me in bad PT-BR, but only in some pages, while others (sitemap.html) remain untranslated. Bad! Some PT-BR words are inadequate to a European user, namely “cadastro”, which means “criminal record” and not “sign up”.

About steampowered.com’s handling of download bandwidth for users in the “Spain & Portugal” region:
#Steam download speeds have been inadmissible low for the “Spain and Portugal” region for 1+ month!! For those suffering from this miserable neglect, my suggestion is go to Steam > Settings > Downloads, and change the “download region” to “UK – London”.

About the bad obscurity of Apple’s iTunes software regarding its backup process:
Oh the ridiculousness of #Apple #iTunes in its device “backup” function. All the user gets is a “backing up ” message. What is the software doing? It is a mystery but it voices an attitude of fake quality by obfuscation.

About commenting on motorsports events:
Commenting motorsports has to be one of the most useless and frustrating jobs in the world: most of the time you are saying nothing non-obvious and racing appreciators would much prefer you to shut up and allow the action’s natural sounds to prevail.

urls, wordpresser

URLs "p1" 20190711 – 64 resources

I am an avid WWW surfer, with hundreds of websites visited each month, sometimes daily. I bookmark them all, at least for logging purposes. These posts having the "urls" category, capture what was on my browser on a specific date. I hope you enjoy some of these shared resources.

urls, wordpresser

URLs "p1" – 82 resources

I am an avid WWW surfer, with hundreds of websites visited each month, sometimes daily. I bookmark them all, at least for logging purposes. These posts having the "urls" category, capture what was on my browser on a specific date. I hope you enjoy some of these shared resources.

urls, wordpresser

URLs "p1" 20190708 – 77 great readings

I am an avid WWW surfer, with hundreds of websites visited each month, sometimes daily. I bookmark them all, at least for logging purposes. These posts having the "urls" category, capture what was on my browser on a specific date. I hope you enjoy some of these shared resources.

Listening, Spotify, wordpresser

Listening to Chris Forsyth – "Tomorrow Might as Well Be Today"

The wind of good fortune brought me the music of Chris Forsyth. By chance, I just discovered his latest album. This is a mostly instrumental piece, with punctual singing. It is different, even experimental, yet without unpleasant ruptures. The audio in this album paints a very “full” stage, with few opportunities for silence, but it does not get tiring, instead involving and flowing through the listener. At times, it remembers me the early Pink Floyd.

Listening, Spotify, wordpresser

Listening to Diego Trip – "Al Espacio"

A surprising album, sung in Spanish. I usually prefer strictly instrumental albums, yet I cannot resist quality lyrics, in this case framed in what feels like a well-researched landscape of conservative-to-modern arrangements. “Al Espacio” (which translates to “To the Space”) is a superb, often original, album! Non-monotonous tracks, sung by a male vocalist, but with its instruments-only moments.

Again, I am not listening to it on Spotify, but I cannot find a better way to share its playlist:

urls, wordpresser

URLs "p1" 20190706 – 56 great resources, from science to money

I am an avid WWW surfer, with hundreds of websites visited each month, sometimes daily. I bookmark them all, at least for logging purposes. These posts having the "urls" category, capture what was on my browser on a specific date. I hope you enjoy some of these shared resources.