I had read this somewhere recently, but thanks to @billbennettnz for Apple satellite SOS service now live in New Zealand:
NZ-based Apple iPhone 14 users are now able to use the company’s Satellite Emergency SOS service. The service lets phone users who are outside mobile or Wi-Fi coverage send an emergency satellite message to an Apple’s relay centre. From there, staff will contact local emergency services to send a rescue team or other help.
Recycling — maybe not always a good thing…
I love Aotearoa but this is unconscionable — The twin crises that fuelled the hostel fire:
10% of our population are so poor and stressed they can’t afford a place to live or food without government help to pay their rent, or to eat without food parcels donated from leftovers being thrown out by supermarkets.
Back in September 2017 I came across this little cutie on a driftwood log on the beach. The Kekeno | New Zealand Fur Seal pups often come ashore on our stretch of beach to rest during winter and spring. I haven't ever seen more than one at a time though.
Doesn't it look happy in the sun!
The MarsEdit Browser extension
While checking posts from my now defunct KnowIt blog I spotted this mention of MarsEdit from 01 February 2008, emphasis from today:
To post this blog entry I visited the MarsEdit 2 What's New page, selected some text and clicked on my MarsEdit bookmarklet in the browser. MarsEdit came to the front (because I always have it open), with a new Post window open that contained the selected text.
Which reminded me … I completely forgot to mention this very handy feature in my upcoming presentation — I've only been using this feature for at least 15 years now! 🤦🏽♀️
Visit the MarsEdit Help menu and choose the Web Browser Integration… item for instructions on how to enable this Bookmarklet (on older systems) or Extension (newer systems).
Settings for how the browser extension passes the title, url and selection into a Post are found under MarsEdit - Settings - Blogs - Post Templates.
Hmmm, not entirely sure about this step in the online recipe for Crispy Chicken Nibbles… 🤔
Just enjoying a pleasant lunch time on the beach with my good buddy Willow. 🐶
When I was on the beach yesterday 3 Kakīānau | Black swan flew in and landed on the estuary. Here are two, with a Karoro | Black-backed gull in the background. 🐦
Crescent moon and Jupiter in the pre dawn sky above flax spears.
So frustrating when every world map in Too HOT and HUMID to Live: Extreme Wet Bulb Events Are on the Rise cuts off Aotearoa New Zealand — either completely or mostly.
It’s not a great feeling when 5 million Kiwis are overlooked, ignored and forgotten about.
I struck a lucky shaft of rising sunlight at the estuary this morning, with this Poaka | Pied Stilt. 🐦
I haven't read this yet but want to boost Sod's link about writing good alt text for images 🔗 :
Alt-texts: The Ultimate Guide is another hands-on article that I like, with tips and tricks for writing great alt-texts.
I haven’t been for a proper walk on the beach for the last month. Now I’m finally over the ghastly flu, it’s time to get back out there. I hope not all the birds have gone away… Sunrise in 30 minutes, better get myself sorted.
A very clear and very helpful post by Alan Jacobs about the true nature of Micro.Blog 🔗 :
I wrote about the Three Paths of micro.blog.
I stayed up way too late last night, not being able to get this AppleScript (or any other technique) to work. Today I found the ‘missing piece’. I had a BBEdit text file with blog posts, each on its own line. I wanted to split that file into separate documents, one per line.
Visited with my buddy Leo today. 🐈
Remember when blogs
were fussily called weblogs
?
While checking posts from my now defunct KnowIt blog I spotted this mention of MarsEdit 1.0 from 11 December 2004:
Ranchero Software's MarsEdit 1.0
… is a weblog editor for Mac OS X that makes weblog writing like writing email—with spell-checking, drafts, multiple windows, and even AppleScript support.
It works with various weblog systems: Blosxom, Conversant, Manila, Movable Type, Radio UserLand, TypePad, WordPress, and others.
Congratulations must go to Brent Simmons who has released Mars Edit today after a period of thorough development and beta testing. As one of those beta testers I'm thrilled to see this application released today. If you use a Mac and have a Blog then you owe it to yourself to at least test Mars Edit. … I use it every day.
Nearly 2 decades later and I still use MarsEdit every day!
Too big for your boots, AI! I made my Micro Camp 2023 presentation video and then had the wonderful free Mac app Aiko transcribe the audio (brilliantly). Except this line at the end:
Huh? I never said that! I edited my video, so transcribed again. Again it ended with that text which I never said!
For my Micro Camp 2023 presentation I used Apple Keynote. I wondered about accessibility for those who can’t see the screenshots.
Keynote Help let me know I can add image descriptions, so that’s underway now.
A MarsEdit tip for including MB usernames in Posts:
Micro.Blog automatically converts usernames to MarkDown links on posting. That can lead to confusion if posting from MarsEdit with HTML.
To avoid that, in MarsEdit’s per-blog settings uncheck the option to Apply Preview Filter.
