I just noticed that this blog has an RSS feed: https://argothald.com/feed/. This link is automatically part of every post in this blog. It's in the Meta section, with the name Entries feed. I've used Wordpress for this blog for years. Only now did I see this feature. Who says I'm not observant? (Really, who says this? Because…
Let's not get confused about the identity of the new blogger on the Argothald Journal. Over the years I've occasionally talked with people about sharing my blogging platform with others. Real Angela is the first to accept the offer. Although her first post is about a Baldur's Gate 3 playthrough, I put no restrictions on what she…
In my previous post, I said I was resolved to remove all Amazon Affiliate links from my Wordpress blog. I had no idea how how I was going to do that. I'd placed such links, in varying forms and blog incarnations, for a couple of decades. There were hundreds of links in dozens of posts. How could…
I posted this on FB today: This may be the post that gets me banned from FB, even before I leave this Wed. Big Reveal: I haven't seen a FB ad in years. How to do this: Use Firefox with FB Container FB Purity Ghostery uBlock Origin ... plus this lets me see my Feed in chronological…
This is a follow-up to my earlier post on a non-study I did on FB. I call it a "non-study" because it wasn't scientific; there were many potential sources of bias that I did not account for. I still haven't accounted for most of them. Still, I think the result is interesting. A week ago, I posted…
CW: Politics I acknowledge that I'm being a drama queen about something that many people are doing without fuss. I still feel a need to record, at least for myself, why I made the decision. I also want to record why I'm delaying the implementation of that decision. Why leave? The straw the broke the camel's back…
TL;DR: I switched hosting providers and my blog looks different. My personal blog began in 2006 with a series of posts on OkCupid. That may sound like a funny place for a personal blog, but in 2006 OkCupid was both a dating site and a social network. While my posts, like most of the other OkCupid bloggers,…
A lot of people consider blogs to be obsolete. I’m not one of them. There are ideas, essays, and discussions that can’t be expressed in short-form social media such as Facebook or Twitter.
When I started this LJ blog, I felt I should be anonymous. I picked a name of personal significance to me, crytolos, that would have no meaning to anyone who didn't know me.Things have changed in the past three years. Facebook has eroded the concept of internet privacy. Also, now I'm using my blog as an information-gathering…