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Doing It Daily

Daily Creating at 14… It’s About the Doing

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 11, 2026January 14, 2026

Just noting what seems to me a significant milestone in the era of Everything About The Web is Charred Poop covered Ad Crap that just a few days ago marked the 14th year that DS106 has published a new open ended creative challenge as The Daily Create. Without missing one single day1. Without any ads […]

Experiments, Wordpress

Free, Semi Secret Bonus(es) that come with WordPress ActivityPub Plugin

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 6, 2026January 6, 2026

I’ve been full on the Get Federated train, and have been most happy with having this WordPress blog going beyond just auto posting posts to the Mastodon but blogging about being a fully fediverse resident entity (if you will) via the ActivityPub plugin. It’s challenging as the expectation for most folks (including me and services […]

Random Musing

Confessed Tsundoku-ist Cracks Open the LibraryThing

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 3, 2026January 3, 2026

So many posts in my head still not written, and as usual I pile up the list and attend to the newest arrow in my thought quiver.And I loathe writing something the first days of January that reeks of New Years vows- sure enough this is in the Already Been Blogged Department (hereto after referred […]

On Web Rabbit Holing, Photography, Random Musing

A Peachy Trip Down the Web Rabbit Hole via a Random Public Domain Photo

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 1, 2026January 1, 2026

I will take the castigation for my ongoing use of Google Chrome as a web browser in 2026, mainly because of all the work flows and systems I have come to use over the years. One of these, maybe the most precious, is the one that distracts me from tasks. That;s right, because when most […]

Doing It Daily, Photography

What The Hell, It’s Twelve (months of daily photos)

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 1, 2026January 1, 2026

It took 9 years but yesterday’s wrap of 2025 clocked a perfect year of my flickr Daily Photo habit (the 18th spin of the game). Put a stake in the ground, I’ve got a 365/365, this year I hit 1.000, well worth a year end snow roll with Felix. It was worth the effort to dust […]

Random Musing

Get Out on a Nice Day and Fly Around

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on December 30, 2025December 30, 2025

Why not? Almost the last day of the year, the temperatures close to 0º? It was high time to rev up the CogDogDrone and take a fly around. My lack of practice shows, every flight is re-remembering the controls. I get a cameo as does the abandoned Chrysler Le Baron in the back field. No […]

Life

Third Insulin Pump is the Charm

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on December 28, 2025February 2, 2026

This year marks my 55th year living with Type 1 diabetes (I can think of at least one interested reader on this topic). It’s always something to address every several times a day, I am lucky to have gotten this far, always offering thanks to Drs Banting and Best. The “technology” of diabetes care when […]

On Web Rabbit Holing, Random Musing, Small Observations

Wondering about the Wonder of Whatever Happened to Wonder

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on December 27, 2025December 27, 2025

This is the time of year for bloggers to be doing their year end deep reflection recaps, tallying up the numbers of posts, comments, and meticulously charting their data trends for how many eyeballs glanced at their pages. Or its making a list of the “best”posts from the year or how many books, films, music […]

Dog Tricks, Rants

Finding the Secret Settings Doors to Continue Paywall Jumping

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on December 18, 2025December 20, 2025

I’ve been pretty happy with my discovery of using archive.today as a means to jump and read stuff hidden behind subscription and paywalls even niftier with my bookmarklet tool. Knowing that its likely to be ripped down, I accepted it was to maybe be shortlived as Publishers have to bucks and the muscle, as reported […]

On Sharing, Photography

Yam Yam Yamming Reuse of Flickr Photos

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on December 15, 2025December 15, 2025

As Forrest Gump never said, “Momma told me life is like a box of yams…” Nope that does not work, just the morning brain on free association. For those not reading ariound here before, my love of taking and sharing photos is not centered in making money or getting anything from my photos, and this […]

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