The first day of a brand new year, 2019, today and a strange thing happened to one of my websites. The fonts changed. I use a program called Artisteer to produce the template that creates the design of the website. The fonts and many other details are saved in a form called a Cascading Style Sheet (CCS). There is apparently a trigger buried or has been hacked into the CCS. This first day of 2019,...
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POBOX Has Gone Berserk
I have been using an email service called pobox.com for four years. It is a purchased service that I began to use to provide a “collection point” for the dozens of email accounts I use with my many websites. It also provided a great email filtering service. I use a process where I direct all my accounts to their one email address that I use to send (SMTP) and read all the mail from all...
Continue reading...Blognasium is a goner.
He failed an update and when several attempts to restore from the total backup I made (just before the update) also failed, I decided to pull the plug on life support. Maintaining Blognasium was way more effort and cost than it was worth. It started as an exercise in playing with a cloud based website (Amazon Web Service) and the StackIdeas share-site software. It was a successful experiment and I learned a lot. But with...
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I generally use MS Word to compose blogs and other documents. That’s because I have it. I also have MS WordPad which is free and a part of then WIN10 OS package. The problem for my general use of WordPad is that it does not include a spellchecker. I only use WordPad to read programming or system text files that contain simple formatting. Because text files for programming contain many unusual words and abbreviations, a...
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