The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning
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Wandering through the Sears tool department, I found this corner:
Neither of the Ladies in my life favor pink, so I wasn’t even tempted…
Mary wonders if the designers scaled the grips and spring tensions to suit women’s hands. Her experience shows that “tools for men” are too big and require too much grip strength for her comfort; applying pink plastic won’t improve them in the least.
Having turned on my old Kindle Fire’s “security warnings” just to see what happens, I’m confronted by pop-ups like this on a regular basis:
People who know what they’re talking about tell me there’s no way for ordinary civilians, such as I, to evaluate the validity of the “credentials” described by that pop-up. In this case, the credential apparently comes from DigiCert, which ought to be trust-able, and was issued to cmcore.com, an actual IBM subsidiary that apparently does Web analytics.
It works fine through my desktop browsers. The Kindle, however, can’t even find digicert.com, so the problem must be an Amazon thing.
The only response that makes sense is to continue loading: gizmodo.com might have cat pictures!
I should just turn off the warnings and be done with it…
Page views for 2015:
So, by and large, plumbing & home repair are where it’s at.
When Nielsen sends out another round of money in the mail, the obvious search terms pop to the top of the list. That’s weird, because the major search engines no longer provide the keywords in the URL (so WordPress can’t track them), which means a few folks still use minor-league search sites.
Who knew?
Thanks to those of you who put up with my “external memory” rambling; with a bit of luck, I can still serve as a bad example. [grin]
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 