It's even worse than it appears.
Bookmarks in Drummer are pretty spectacular. Makes you wonder what some products would be like if the devs really focused on Bookmarks. A product that desperately needs bookmarks is Amazon S3. Count the number of steps it takes to get to a folder you need to get to all the time. A simple bookmark facility could reduce that to one step. Amazon if you'd like help with the design, I've learned a lot about it. My rates are reasonable. 😄#
I never thought to look until just now but.. A random Echo Dot I wasn't using has an audio-out mini jack. I have a pair of Audioengine speakers not in use. Voila -- Amazon Music with real sound. I'm giving it to my Peloton.#
Now hopefully someone tells me I missed the great Bookmarks feature that's been there all along. #
Movies Doc Searls recommends in a Facebook post. Not sure if you can read it. King Richard, Coda, Summer of Soul, Don't Look Up, The Eyes of Tammy Faye.#
  • Via Doc on Facebook, author unknown.#
  • I took a political science in college, freshman year at Lehman College, in the Bronx. I was thinking of being a poli sci major. When they got around to polling, it was made clear was you could get people to say whatever you want by how you asked the question.#
  • For example if they asked this question.#
    • 1. Do you think Americans should support the president in times of war, regardless of party? #
  • And then..#
    • 2. Do you approve of how President Biden is handling the war in Ukraine?#
  • You'd get the patriotic answer inside every American.#
  • The monthly ritual is partially done. I have archived the outline for February in the GitHub repo.#
  • And as a reminder to myself and other Drummer users -- this is what I did for the Daytona part of the rollover.#
    • daytona.removeOutlineRefs ("http://drummer.scripting.com/davewiner/blog.opml")#
    • daytona.ping ("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scripting/Scripting-News/master/blog/opml/2022/02.opml")#
  • And, amazingly -- it worked. Here's a search for Ukraine and it finds the refs from February. They moved from the main blog.opml file to the archive file.#

Last update: Tuesday March 1, 2022; 5:20 PM EST.

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