Bill Gates has announced he’s giving away 200B over the next 20 years to help address 3 moonshot global needs. Here’s the announcement from Gates Foundation
There are a lot of people that idolize billionaires and I am not one of them. A have an internal screed about them and how they are MONEY HOARDERS (old school caps for emphasis). I don’t respect that behaviour when the obvious suffering blah blah blah – no one wants to hear the screed here.
Bill Gates is really the only one that has a gotten pass from me. He has actively worked through his Gates Foundation to try to make the world a better place. I admire that.
Rollups best left to fruit
The Neuron newsletter served up this TechCrunch article about Read the article https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/01/early-ai-investor-elad-gil-finds-his-next-big-bet-ai-powered-rollups/. Here's a quote from the article: "The idea is to identify opportunities to buy...
The secret language of Vote for Trump!
I recently launched my completely unheralded food blog mostly as a way to play around with Elegant Themes Divi theme. I do, however, have lots of various food pictures I'd like to categorize more for my own recorded history. If someone stumbles across...
Google Voice
I've been working a bit to update content on TQuist website. I had gotten a Google Voice number years ago but then never used it, and after a time it was recycled. I signed up for a new one today and the process is very, very smooth. One has to bear in mind that...
CMS sites revisited
Recent work research includes CMS review. I haven't looked into what is out there in a long time. The quick search hits showed lots of familiar faces and a couple new ones. I found this post informative:...
Congratulations Impact Makers
Impact Makers was awarded "Best for the World" by B Lab. Here's a Richmond Time's Dispatch mentioning of the award. I met Michael Pirron shortly after moving to Richmond in 2004, and have watched him methodically and conscientiously build Impact Makers into a...
DropBox Security
Oh, the line between security and convenience is harsh. While reading TechRepublic I found this interesting article on DropBox security. I love the convenience of cloud technologies, and use DropBox like lots of people, including the article author (Michael Kassner)....
GOOG perspective on links
Analytics is an area that I will be focusing quite a bit in the coming months. I read this article about linking and Penguin 2.0 changes on a website called "Search Engine Watch." There are many pieces to the content puzzle that websites have to face, and...