So, you guys know I have my blog cross-posted on various platforms. Well, I also considered posting on Substack. Then, as I do, I read the Substack Privacy Policy . After which I rejected Substack with a quickness. The Substack Privacy Policy is essentially "there is no Privacy here." It's even worse than the Google Privacy Policy update they published on May 26 of this year --the update that sent me running back to Diaryland to writ…
You guys, I found the prettiest desk chair on Facebook Marketplace. It was a 3-minute Uber ride away. We picked it up last night. It's perfect, I love it so much.🥰 The only problem with having been hunting for a new chair online is the dreaded avalanche of ads for chairs I'm getting and will get until the end of time. I'm telling you, retargeting has to be the dumbest martech (marketing technology) they ever came up with, and I am ov…
Oh for fuck's sake. I just asked Google a simple question about hanging a birdbath from the porch. I got the most useless and bizarre results. I scrolled for three pages in utter confusion...then I remembered the announcement in the tech pages for the changeover today: Google Search is ALL AI now. Wow, Google. Really? I really doubt anyone asked for this. I wonder what's going on this morning in the offices of the millions of MarTech SEO…
These days if you Google for "hamster dance," all kinds of results come up, but you have to dig deep and know to search for THE Hampster Dance (deliberately misspelled by the creator). Created before Google. On a Geocities site. And completely, totally useless. In fact its gone, but some intrepid soul has recreated the Hampster Dance, much to the delight of, I suspect, mostly Gen X. You can find this recreated wonder at https://origina…
Google, why hast thou forsaken us? So it's pretty well known that Google has not been devoting that much dev time to Blogger in recent years. Oh, there's been some background stuff going on, like a new back-up system last summer. And about three months ago they did some Beta testing with new Google Search tools. With varying degrees of success. The first one was totally cringe, and if I had been one of the designated Beta testers I'd h…
Now here's the thing. I don't do this for any kind of ostentatious putting-on of airs. I'm not vain at all. Just the opposite. You can ask my psychiatrist. Or my therapist. No, I am occasionally Googling myself to see if Google has had any sweet sweet mercy on # Blogger and indexed our # blogs at all. Because we would really like Google to index our blogs. Lack of blog indexing is a frequent topic of discussion in certain web forums. …
You guys. I accidentally found a really cool radio station. Google "Big 103 Boston" to stream it (or click the link at the bottom). Or if you're near me in Boston, tune to 103 FM. That's how I found it, twiddling the knob of the little radio I bought myself last summer, They play a wider variety than most stations. Hip hop, Indie, Metal, Pop. I got some screen shots from different days/times--check it out! If you're anythin…
I’ve Googled myself before, but not since Google added an AI search engine feature. I admit I'm pretty salty about AI. I never use that AI search result when Googling anything, preferring the actual results rather than the AI summary that shows up. But. Ummm…maybe I should re-think that. Because when the AI summarized me, it got me pretty well. I mean I don’t know what I’d add here. I searched “SuperLowBudge.” That’s my handle everywhere fro…
There has been some talk in recent weeks about blogging--whether it's still relevant, who is doing it, and what is the best platform. Well! It just so happens that I think it IS still relevant (obviously), and I have tried out a bunch of blogging platforms myself over the years. Some others I haven't tried personally, but I follow blogs on them, and have formed an opinion on their look and feel. Here's some personal observations... Di…
" OH DEAR GOD. Never Google yourself."
That's what I wrote under "Write a Review" on an archive site I discovered this week. On this site, someone had posted the Spring 1990 issue of our college Honors newsletter, a quarterly called Femmes d'esprit . Spring '90 was the second issue after I became the Editor. The previous editor, Stacy, had gone off to Europe on a semester abroad. While I was envious of all the girl…
