![]() ![]() We got off easy compared to many in our community, but we had to go a couple of weeks without water from the faucet and a few days without power. This all stems from a massive flooding event here in Columbia, SC in 2015 when my partner Merianna was 9 months pregnant with our son. I’m not technically a public “prepper” but my friends and family know that I am very interested in things like food preps, gear preps, vehicle preps, water preps, cooking preps… well, I guess I’m a prepper. Via The Verge: Microsoft is changing the default Office font and wants your help to pick a new one Once a decision has been made, the new default font will appear in Microsoft Office apps in 2022. Polls and feedback will be considered as part of how Microsoft picks a winner, and the company is going to spend the next few months evaluating these new fonts and seeing which ones are proving popular. Microsoft is now releasing these five new fonts in Microsoft 365 so everyone can try them out before a new default is chosen. Sometimes, we just need to leave things up to passionate professionals. Not everything benefits from the will of the populace and those who have no previous experience or expertise in an area (see Ancient Aliens). Choose a damned font and stick by your design decision. We don’t need polls or comments or public input. I’ve definitely done my share of DIY home repair, legal drafting, and dubious electrical work after a couple of alcoholic beverages and a few YouTube tutorials.īut some things should be sacred, right? We all joke about how easy it is to get ordained by the World Life Church so that you can perform the rites at your friends’ wedding. Need to draft a will? There’s an app for that. Trying to fix your dishwasher? Don’t call a plumber… there’s a dozen YouTube vids for your exact model! Need a new website? Just use Wix or Squarespace! Sigh. One of the consequences of the wonderful democratization that the web has brought us is that now everyone is an expert at… well, everything. Will report back here about my usage as it accumulates in the coming weeks. But it “feels” like it has staying power. I’ll continue experimenting with Neeva to see if it’s one of the dandelions that pops up to spread seeds across the ecosystem of the web or if it’s just a one-season deal. Our memories, correspondence, social graphs, birthday reminders, calendars etc are all wrapped up in the service (at least… much more than that for “power users” like myself). Google is such an intimate part of all of our lives, whether we care to admit it or not. I’ve never been a big fan of the saying “if you’re not paying for a service, you’re the product” and all, but it does ease my mind to exchange money for what I consider valuable services on the web (Pinboard for bookmarking comes to mind). The company is looking to make money by offering subscriptions. I’m still wrapping my head around it, but it feels like a good mix of “old school web” and what we’ll eventually get to once we exit this period of advertising-based “free” services that have been the predominate business model on the web for the last 15 years. ![]() Browsers and search engines and minute-based access to the web were something you paid for (unless you stockpiled AOL disks like I did). I paid for Netscape (and I was amazed when I got to college in 1996 and walked into the computer lab with 8 machines running Netscape, WordPerfect, Office, and the Corel suite). Thought technologies such as web browsers and search engines were still young and completely exhilarating. I come from the time when the web was still in its primordial stage. You can read more about the founding of the company by ex-Googler Sridhar Ramaswamy here (it’s a fascinating story). I’ve been trying out the search engine service Neeva lately. – Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in a 1998 research paper while they were doctoral students at Stanford “…advertising income often provides an incentive to provide poor quality search results.” ![]()
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