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WordPress
Apologies in advance: this will be another entry about the website and not postcards themselves, but sometimes we can’t stifle ourselves. WordPress (WP) is the open-source platform on which the site was rebuilt. Faithful readers might remember this is our third structure over the past 17 (!) years. We’d like it to be the last. […]
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Beyond Postcards
We had to make some existential decisions. Leaving aside the obvious question of how and whether to source more postcards from auctions or other dealers, we have been wondering what to do with boxes of (mostly) paper ephemera, all getting older by the day. Almost imperceptibly, much of this is changing from “useful” to “antique”. […]
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Being seen
Even though any of our new Blog entries brings an onslaught of mostly Russian spam about casinos, porn, and drugs into the Comments for Moderation area — endemic to the WordPress structure — we just keep pushing this river uphill. These “bots” scan for new entries and start their attack on us — not you […]
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https
OK, school is open now. If you already know what “https” means, you can skip ahead … or, just keep reading and be grateful it’s not happening to you. If you’re on the internet, look near the top of your screen, and you’ll see the address (URL) of whatever site you’re visiting. Most likely […]
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No-No’s
Decades ago, a pop song’s lyrics went “It’s my party, and I’ll cry if I want to …” Well, it’s our website and we’ll post what we want to — for all sorts of reasons, good and bad. Sometimes, we don’t want to. Sometimes, we can’t. This is meant, generally, to be a family-friendly […]
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Mail
This virus is like the house guest who promises to stay for three days, then not only doesn’t show any signs of leaving but starts inviting relatives over too. Most of us — and we include you, wherever you are — are learning to accommodate all the small and big changes, restrictions, and effects of […]
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Now the “New Normal” in Hong Kong
Ah, Hong Kong, our home. Definitely, the past year, it’s not been boring here. Not at all. Especially not in the past week. This will be a short entry. We need to make a small adjustment to some cards on the site. (If you’ve been following the news, you can guess which cards they […]
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Spam! (No, not this post)
Сегодня вся планета Земля переживает очень сложный период в жизни. Многие лишились ….. don’t worry, the rest of this entry is in English and we are not going to sell you holiday timeshares anywhere. This was a small excerpt of one of the daily attempts by various people to infiltrate the Blog with links for […]
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Ad cards
Who’s immune from advertising? Definitely not us, though our overall lack of visibility makes it look that way. So it was time to do something about that, and we thought: ad cards, easy to produce, easy to distribute. Hah! The first question: what picture to use? We’re in Hong Kong, and even if many […]
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Coming Soon!
After wayyyyyyy too many false starts, we think we’re on
track now to rebuild and redesign the site. Brighter! Mobile
responsive! Google might find us! More modern!
___________________! (We’ll bet you can think of something else that needed doing.)
