Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
I need two things in a WordPress plugin to notify subscribers whenever I post new content here.
I started this blog as “Mark’s Views, Perhaps” and eventually retitled it “Ain’t Complicated.” Read it all
Our daughter Michayla launched her own web site.
Here are the opening paragraphs of her first blog post on December 3:
Moments.
Life is made up of them. Some of them are exhilarating, others depressing. Quite a few of them are actually downright boring. There’s no way of knowing when one moment will end and when the next will begin or if a moment that began in joy will end in pain, and vice versa. But one thing is true about all of them: they are fleeting.
That’s part of the beauty of life. No moment lasts forever. They come and go, and though we cannot hold them, we know that more will follow, and who is to say that those will not be more lovely than the ones we cling to now? Through all the changeableness of life, through the moments we hold tightly and the ones we wish would end, there is one constant, and that is the One Who created us.
God’s goodness to His people never changes. His plan of redemption never changes. And His promise of life unending will never change either. Someday, if we cling tightly to His hand and follow Him through fire and bliss alike, we will find life that has no end. We will no longer see in moments but in eternity, and all that we called beautiful in this life will be as pale glass and fallen ash in comparison.
This life is just a dressing room for that one, and moment by moment, our chances to make this life something worthwhile are slipping away.
I don’t despise the moments of my life, but too often I treat them despicably.
As I commented on her blog… Read it all
Last week I wrote a Quick Draft of an idea for a blog post on my ebooks blog. But it vanished without a trace when I clicked Save Draft the first time! 🙁
After searching for it high and low, I gave it up as a loss to a program quirk. It wasn’t much and I didn’t figure it would take me long to reconstruct it. Sometime. 🙄
Well, this evening I saw that WordPress 6.8.3 had been released. I checked to see what it was about and learned…
The “Quick Draft” tool on the dashboard screen was broken in the 3.8.2 update. If you tried to use it, your draft would disappear and it wouldn’t save.
Sooo…that’s what my “misfortune” had been about! I was glad to see the problem had been discovered and fixed.
But I was very impressed by this: Read it all
I’m Waiting to Say aside, I’ve some other posts pressing my pericardium (I think). Earlier this morning I finally started outlining these four:
With these as their opening sub-points: Read it all
No, not that kind of railing!
My general impression of the term railing has been one that has to do as much with content as with the tone and demeanor of the speaker.
The very day after hearing a definition that was milder than the one I’ve had, I had work-related occasion to check some book sources. Let me show you some of what I found.
OK, so it’s hard to read. See below. Read it all
I checked my email early yesterday morning and saw this snuggled in the Inbox:
History happened while I wasn’t looking! For the first time ever, one of my WordPress installations updated without any attention from me.
I clicked that email in my Inbox listing, and sure enough…
So without any action on my part, my devotional blog churned through the WordPress Maintenance Release into 3.7.1 — nice!
I logged into Panting Hart and was greeted with this:
It truly was while I slept!
Though I prefer to maintain control over my sites, I welcome these automatic, background updates to WordPress. Thankfully, major updates aren’t included in this. For instance, December’s projected 3.8 upgrade we’ll still have to do manually.
Again, a huge thumbs-up to WordPress. (And you’re blogging using another platform…why? 😆 )