Un article de ce blog au hasard

Regardons… un article au hasard

Au passage : comment faire pour ajouter un lien vers un article de blog au hasard, dans WordPress ? Ecrit en décembre 2023 sur wordpress.com.
[ceci peut avoir son importance si la procédure change par la suite]

1. Vous êtes en train d’écrire un article.
   Là où il est écrit « Saisir / pour choisir un bloc » vous ne faites rien.
   🙃
   Au lieu de cela vous allez sélectionner le signe [ + ] sur fond bleu qui se trouve en haut de page à gauche.
   
2. Cela fait apparaître une liste déroulante.
   On peut aussi l’appeler liste déroutante. Ha ha ha.
   😅
   
3. Dans cette longue liste, vous allez sélectionner le ‘widget’ « html personnalisé »
   Cela fera apparaître une boîte où vous pourrez entrer le lien 🔗 vers un article aléatoire 🌀.
   
4. Dans cette boîte vous allez entrer les éléments suivants, qui sont du code HTML 😋
   Vous remplacerez les ⏸️ par des guillemets simples (ceux de la touche 3)
   Car je n’ai pas réussi à les faire apparaître correctement sur ce billet.
   (il faut un doctorat en guillemets 🤪)
   
   <p>
   <a href=⏸️/?random⏸️>Lien vers un article aléatoire (ou autre titre tel qu’il vous plaît) </a>
   </p>
   
5. Voilà, l’affaire est dans le sac ! 👜
   

Une manière astucieuse pour inviter à voir ou revoir votre blog !
🤗

L’armoire de la sérénité

The wardrobe of serenity

J’espère que ma chemise n’est pas sur l’étagère du haut
I hope that my shirt is not on the top shelf

Forest in August

While you walk in the forest,
The forest walks inside you.

Butterfly in lavender

butterfly in lavender

Wait, don’t go! My picture is badly framed

Life is a consciousness watching a fire

fireworks

… Sort of

Looking away by my window

Whether you pay attention to it or not, the sky never looks the same

Warm up to your inner light

Forest of Brocéliande in April

… Be your own Druid

Forest of Broceliande in April

Shift – Control – T : a time saver

(french version here)

Do you know « Shift – Control – T »  ?

You are browsing somewhere on some site, and then you close the tab.
But too soon : Oops.

Shift-Control-T will reopen the last closed tab.

(tested on Chrome / Firefox / Internet Explorer)

🙂

Automation, complexity and time saving

As written before in the previous article, in case I discovered the problem behind Gmail huge memory leak, I would come back here and tell the truth.

I use an extension (avaible in Chrome, Firefox, Opera) called « I don’t care about cookies ». It is a very nice sort of thing : you don’t have to click every minute on « blah blah this site cookies blah blah ».

But… at the moment, this extension will transform Gmail in a memory black hole (except if you deactivate it on the google.com domain).

A kind of french version of this article, not guaranteed to have the exact same content (it would not be fun), can be found here : I mean here.

The main philosophical and whateverical question that we face here is : do we really think that automation is a gain for life ? What do you do with your electric window blinds (not sure for the words)  if there is no electric power ?

Another question : must all automatic systems be as simple as possible ?

A video on Liveleak : Amazing writing clock made by a japanese student

😉

Monopoly and degeneration

Growl, grouch and grumble, it may remain something of it

French version : see my blog equanimite.com

I have been a great user of Gmail.

However, last months, I remarked that the quantity of memory consumed by this application has ehrrrr… increased.  Where it should be under 200 megas, it will slowly grow to 2 gigas – and then it becomes unusable. You have to quit your Gmail tab and restart a new.

Among these almost 5GB of memory, 1GB is consumed by Gmail

 

Of course trying to solve the issue is like facing a wall. The problem has been told to Google and yes, it has been told. That’s why the only issue is to grouch on one’s blog.

That’s the third time in my Information Technology experience, that I witness the glory of a monopoly, and some indices of its degeneration.

• IBM, once upon a time, was the major path to information systems. One day it went bad. Suddenly people started to notice that other systems existed : better, more powerful and cheaper (at the time, VMS and Unix ).
• Microsoft. One day you could remark that any sensible person in web development hated Internet Explorer, which seemed to be built to break the compatibility of Web sites. There remains something of this.
  Couldn’t understand why Windows 8 was built to be uneasy to use. And what about Windows 10 and its 3 GO automatic updates. « Please wait, don’t stop your PC, I am busy consuming all the Internet bandwidth with useless updates »
• Google : this degeneration of Gmail may be one of the first signs. We’ll see.

Hopefully… WordPress is not a monopoly. There are plentiful of other web editing solutions. Recently I discovered Jimdo, which is more WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) do you know it ? It is built in Hamburg.

Well, wait a minute : I just gave a look to WordPress memory consumption. It seems a bit huge too. To be continued…

About Gmail :  I promise that if the problem is solved, I will recognize it, apologize about, and stop grumbling.