Posts by hayesstw@c.im
 (DIR) Post #AXDjgu8vjsZT96oIHg by hayesstw@c.im
       2023-06-30T15:05:11Z
       
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       @grammargirl The trouble with that is that it leaves is with no way of pointing out when someone actually begs the question.
       
 (DIR) Post #AZC43BeBeSsWDVW8VE by hayesstw@c.im
       2023-08-28T15:28:02Z
       
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       @killyourfm Will it run on Windows XP?
       
 (DIR) Post #AaISoXWyyivDwRWzWS by hayesstw@c.im
       2023-09-30T15:25:10Z
       
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       @clive Back in the 90s when the web was young people started saying that in order to get people to look at web pages, and then come back and look at them again, they must have content. They must have something to say that people would want to read. By "content" they meant that -- something to say -- at a time when many people were putting up websites with no content but lots of jiggling graphics and other stuff to demonstrate their self-defined cleverness, but it was quite clear that they had nothing to say. You're n ot going back to look as yet another "animated" (ie jiggling") graphic thingy. So content was used to mean, well, content, as opposed not no content. It's got rather debased since then, but  it did originally mean something.
       
 (DIR) Post #AaJLqNQH1hMAeLHXLU by hayesstw@c.im
       2023-10-01T01:41:48Z
       
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       @clive I think the rot set in when people started advertising for "content-creators". That was getting it backwards.You don't, or shouldn't, start a web site and then look for something to say on it. You first have something to say and decide whether a web site is a good medium for saying it. You may hire writers and graphic designers etc to help you say it better, but they are not "content-creators".
       
 (DIR) Post #AbIdCqJbP59VoeZ6Uy by hayesstw@c.im
       2023-10-30T14:45:26Z
       
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       @linuxtechmore Now if only Firefox would issue a "Firefox Lite" so that those of us with older computers could update without fear of more bloatware.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdEFV5ek6lXKCYXsCe by hayesstw@c.im
       2023-12-27T08:14:18Z
       
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       @IdahoLark A distant cousin, May Stooke, had the responsibility of filling up the 1911 census form when her parents were away. She put her baby brother's occupation down as "guzzla" and the maid's marital status as "awaiting opportunity".See here: https://hayesgreene.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/more-on-the-stooke-family/