I recently visited Trustees of Reservations Doyle Community Park in Leominster, MA, https://thetrustees.org/place/doyle-community-park/. The website’s tag-line for Doyle, “Meander along trails that pass through woodlands, fields, and gardens, all parts of an elegant former estate,” is accurate, but it doesn’t mention what I personally think is the best feature of this property, a pond with… Read More: Trustees hike: Doyle Community Farm »
A lovely property. An easy hike with a lot of interesting stuff to see.
They don’t respond to emails, phone messages, or paper letters, and they don’t maintain the trail markings or signage at their properties.
A few days ago, I asked the fediverse if anyone knew of a tool I could use to publish an article on my blog and publish the same article as a thread on Mastodon. I already have a way to post summaries of and links to my blog postings into my Mastodon account. I’ve also already set… Read More: New: WP+Masto POSSE — publish to both WordPress and Mastodon »
An extension to automatically adjust global Thunderbird preferences based on the mail folder you’re currently working in.
They gave me incorrect instructions multiple times, then failed to deliver as promised, then refused (so far) to fix the failed delivery.
Vote for Ed Markey, Margie Palladino, Daniel Lander, and Linda Champion.
To illustrate how well AI is going, here’s a prime example of the confidently wrong phenomenon, a.k.a. mansplaining as a service… I asked free Microsoft Copilot Chat: if I rename a shared file in Google Drive, does the name change for just me or everyone? The correct answer is that in fact it does change… Read More: AI’s going really well, eh? »
Because one healthcare horror story per day isn’t enough, I want to tell you the story of how I’ve been trying for over two months to get my uncle’s electric wheelchair repaired. It’s still broken. It still hasn’t even been picked up by the company that is supposed to repair it. First, some background information.… Read More: How hard should it be to get an electric wheelchair… »
A case study in why Healthfirst, Integra Partners, and Edgepark all suck. More broadly, the entire American healthcare system sucks, especially for elderly people, and it’s only going to get worse.