Clif Graves – Just another guy doing WordPress, FileMaker, and other things

Downtown Winthrop Maine – From Postcard Mailed in 1908

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Goodby Railroad Square Cinema

February 12, 2021February 12, 2021IndieWeb

The RR2, like most movie houses, has been closed for a year now and has no expected reopening date. As it says on the Waterville Creates website, “Due to the current pandemic, all in-person programming has been suspended.” Because part of the plan (depending on fund raising) is to move the cinema to downtown…

Starlink offers what?

February 10, 2021February 12, 2021IndieWeb, Space, Tech

I was excited about Starlink. Internet from space seems to be hugely kool. Very future. But my thought is that Starlink is currently too expensive. Not that hugely faster internet might be nice, but for most of us we may not see it as worth the price (or even see a difference much of…

Maine Rocket Launch

February 4, 2021February 12, 2021Space, Tech

The Maine based company blueShift Aerospace launched it’s first rocket from the Loring Commerce Centre (former AFB). The third time was the charm as weather and temperature allowed the launch….

Mint LMDE 4, The best Linux OS ever?

June 9, 2020June 10, 2020Linux, Tech

Mint has been the Linux on my desktop for years. Linux Mint traditionally has been built on top of the core Ubuntu Linux and Ubuntu is based on Debian Linux . Ubuntu makes quite a lot of changes to Debian. Mint tweaks and improves on Ubuntu. If you are ready to make a move…

The standard WordPress editor for WordPress.com users will be retired June 1 – or not.

May 30, 2020February 6, 2021IndieWeb, WordPress

There is a discussion ( here ) that starts with “On June 1 we’ll be retiring our older WordPress.com editor and transitioning to the more recent (and more powerful) WordPress block editor.” But that is only true in the broadest sense. The blog post seems intentionally misleading to ‘force’ folks into using the not…

Windows 7 is dead – Long live Linux

January 14, 2020January 14, 2020Linux, Tech

Unless you are a big organization and wants to send Microsoft lots of money for continued support – support for Windows 7 is over. Over 10 years ago Microsoft launched Windows 7 to help recover from the disastrous Windows Vista. In August 2012 Microsoft released Windows 8 to less than stellar reviews. While Windows…