Rather than a blog, I like to think of this space as a personal notebook that is open and available for all to see. If I'm already keeping notes for my own various uses, why not share them publicly and hopefully provide value to others as well?
I'm so excited to say that one of my photographs appears on the front of the Best of the Wildwoods Vacation Planner 2021!
This photo was taken at about 6:15am as the sun rose over the ocean in the Wildwoods. While early mornings aren't my specialty generally-speaking, this photo really reminds me that catching a Wildwood sunrise is worth the early alarm clock! I don't know about you, but I wish I could step into this scene right now!
Following a password reset (specifically a Microsoft O365 account), Apple Mail was not happy. It recognized that the password had changed but wasn't accepting the new password, even though we knew the password was correct..."Can't connect to the account...Enter the password for user...Unable to verify account name or password..."
Part of me dislikes how resourceful we are as entrepreneurs, because that means we will find a way when Shopify is lacking features and solutions they should really have. I'm not excited to rely on / pay for a 3rd party app, especially when it seems like something Shopify should have built in. And most of all, I'm squeamish about giving my data to 3rd party apps, but Shopify is so useless in the reporting area that I have bitten the bullet.
Are you encountering the following perplexing error when trying to visit Coursera.org or a Coursera course: "We were not able to find the page you're looking for"? This is what worked for us.
If you've randomly been asked by MacOS if you'd like to "Allow" or "Don't Allow" notifications for "%@", you're not alone.
I couldn't find anything online about this unhelpful error message in Canvas. BUT, we figured it out.
To add interactivity to our Zoom live stream events at the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania, we like to take phone calls from live viewers on the air, similar to a radio-talk show.
The way it works; A call comes in, I screen the call, alert the hosts and then we put the phone caller on the air live to make their comment or ask their question.
Zoom defaults to "Active Speaker" view when a meeting is recorded to the cloud. For smaller meetings and classes, you might instead want the "gallery view" so you have a better view of everyone in the meeting.
Good news! For cloud recordings, you can change the default recording view from "active speaker" to "gallery view". (Note: To my knowledge, this option is not available for "local recordings" but I have yet to test this fully).
Fortune Cookie: Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
I reacted negatively at first to this, like it was encouraging me to not take chances and be mediocre. Then I realized small victories lead to larger successes. Breaking down goals and aspirations into smaller, more manageable steps makes stepping a lot easier.
Photo: Germantown Ave, Chestnut Hill, in bloom today, 3/29/2020.
Bookmarking your FTP/SFTP settings in BBEdit makes re-connecting to servers a lot easier, especially when you include the "Path", which means you will get dropped back into the same directory each time.
1. Start by opening BBEdit and clicking File->New FTP/SFTP Browser.
2. For the connection settings, enter your SFTP server, username and password. Optionally, add the "Path" -- that is, the directory on the server you'd like to immediately go to, if you want to and know it. Otherwise, you will be dropped into the default location on the server when you connect.