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  • Strange Ways of Discovering Quality

    I’ve been using this Philips trimmer-shaver for quite a few years now.

    Only this morning I powered it with this brand new battery, Eveready Ultima Alkaline.

    My trimmer-shaver never ever worked this way. Never ever. Never ever. And I never got a better trim than this.

    All the while I used Duracell to power this gadget. And all the experiences of using this made me feel like these trimmers-shavers behave in a certain ‘non-satisfactory’ way; that’s the way they are built, that’s the limit of their performance, no matter the brand or company.

    Today’s experience with this Eveready Ultima Alkaline changed it all. Only now I get it that the gadget was actually made for such a performance. And only today I was in a position to experience and compare the performances.

    I thought Duracell was the best; the gadget was built like that. Turns out the gadget was built for a super performance and Duracell was the culprit.

    It didn’t have to be this way but it has turned out this way. Even with all the awareness and heightened senses, it takes time to discover what’s quality.

    Remember, Eveready Ultima Alkaline. No, I am not paid to promote this but the drastic difference in my shaving experience makes me write for it.

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  • Social Media Machines

    Servers can serve as serving machines. Your tap on the FB icon is asking the server to serve you with something. Not necessarily decided by you what you ought to be served.

    Servers can’t be turned into distribution machines. Just because you post doesn’t mean your post is going everywhere or to everyone.

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  • Hierarchypedia

    What’s your sense?

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  • FB Ads

    I made a text (non-AI text) post on the FB page dedicated to my venture Mississippi Earrings. FB doesn’t allow me to ‘boost’ it. Probably because it is all text. Amazing! How does it affect FB if any entity wants to boost text or image?

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  • Machine Operators

    They go with the moniker of Digital Marketers. Their vocabulary is limited and so every other digital ad starts with something like ‘Elevate’ or ‘Level up’ or just ‘Up’ or some such word indicating ‘high’ in some way.

    Youngsters think that being able to use graphic design software makes them creative and being able to place ads in social media by looking at metrics makes them a marketer.

    Excessive laptopping and smart-phoning has made us robots or machine operators.

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  • 3 Realizations

    I have admitted that, to make certain things, I have to be a machine-operator, no more.

    I must understand how intricate forms are created.

    Without being a machine-operator, I will not understand how to set up algorithms.

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  • Imprisonment

    We create an ecom website on Shopify. We do not like it for some reason. We want to create a new website without using some other platform. Everything is there but the structure we created on Shopify won’t port (or move) to another platform just like that.

    You do not like a Toyota, you can go try a Honda or a Ford or whatever. There’s no issue of porting.

    You do not like a Lamy, you can go try a Jinhao or a Diplomat or something else. There’s no issue of porting.

    The issue of data and structure porting almost ensures imprisonment.

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  • Stories

    Stories always meant moving and motioning.

    Carvings and sculptures required us to move, non-metaphorically, on our legs in space, to hear and imagine all the stories, narrated by self or someone else.

    And personal stories were hidden in all sorts of objects. Visiting and revisiting the objects meant retelling the stories to ourselves.

    Books required us to sit. Eyes read and voices worked with the written letters and words. Stories would have to be heard often in our heads, silently.

    Motion pictures move the images, stories and voices while we keep sitting. The stories fall into eyes and ears. They fall. We do not work as much to tell and retell the stories.

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  • Couplet Quality

    Will Google ever be able to rank its search results based on the quality of couplets and poems written on a web-page?

    No?

    There you have the quality of the engine and the quality of commerce promoted by the engine.

    Disagree? Sure. Write a couplet of disagreement, can you?

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  • FF Extractor

    I mean Facebook Feed Extractor.

    I want something like that to analyze the feed that I am scrolling. Would open a bit the tightly shut algorithmic blackbox that influences the way I use my time.

    Would you want one? Is there already one available?

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  • Inbox World

    Am tempted to explore the INBOX WORLD.

    Is that a good name? INBOX WORLD. What do you make of it?

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  • Horrifying Realization

    Where does data reside? In a database?

    Want to move data? Move the database. How?

    Portability? Publishing templates like blogs can often be ported; I haven’t tried it but I can imagine coz the template is simple enough generally. And yet, there could be problems.

    Can you withdraw all your data? And keep where?

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  • Battle of Intentions

    I said to myself let me learn how to send newsletters.

    And I set a few things to send newsletters using Zoho Campaigns.

    I also subscribed to certain Reddit topics concerning newsletters.

    What do I find? To pass through the filters of a service like Gmail, newsletter itself has to conform to so many conditions, has to follow a certain template.

    You are in a battle of intentions.

    You have spammy intentions, says Gmail.

    No, I don’t, I say.

    No, you surely do, and I’ll keep you out right from the first (news)letter. You spammer! I curse you now; the destiny of your (news)letters is the spam-box. To spam you go!

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  • 10th page

    10th page of search results on Google, that’s what I jump to now as soon as I do any search.

    Interesting results. Why don’t you try with 7th, and move either way you like.

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  • Memories

    Our moments of memory VERSUS data in storage media pretending to be memory…

    Memory without writing on paper

    Memory without recordings on storage media

    Uncompiled, unsequenced, unnarratized memories…

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  • Nightmare of Software

    Searching

    Matching

    Sampling

    Matching

    Sampling

    Matching

    Sampling

    Using

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  • Durability

    Have these storage devices and memory cards and chips matched paper in durability?

    Is this the right time to assess this at all?

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  • Head Spins & Price for Blogging

    I see what’s happening.

    Early morning Youtube bingeing spins my head. The sounds, voices, background music… Quieter mornings are better mornings.

    Blog-portability is an issue. Have you ever tried doing that?

    If I want to preserve these thoughts I type on this wordpress blog, I shall have to pay for the storage every single year. No?

    I can write all such stuff in my notebooks (paper notebooks I mean) but then I can’t share with you, I can’t spread the stuff I write. I have to pay a price to spread, to share.

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  • Google feels so clumsy

    We all use Google invariably for different purposes and almost every day.

    Google’s SEARCH ENGINE is such that when I search something while working on my laptop, I click on the 10th page of search results to really begin sorting out and making sense of the results. That’s the state right now.

    Google has a space for small businesses. But it is so bad! So bad! Weird way of updating and posting. So clumsily executed.

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  • Website is actually a communication factory

    I have a shop on Shopify (link at the end of this post).

    I often say that software is a machine.

    When I look at my Shopify website and the kind of feedback I receive from patrons, visitors and users of this website, I am tempted to add some apps to this website in the hope that users have a better experience and I can market my products and website in better ways.

    Website is a container for Shopify store which is a software which is a machine.

    Apps are also software which are machines.

    This gathering of machines makes it a factory. A communication factory.

    Link to the shop

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