I am doing some testing for another project and am using this domain as a place to test some layout, style sheets and typography. I like this new theme a lot. Yes, this is sort of a test post.
Category: Web
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Scared Cookie! The Consequences of Ignoring GDPR: Why American Businesses Need to Pay Attention
I’ve been on the internet for a long time! The US Air Force sent me to HTML school back in 1995 so you could say I’ve been here a while. I find it irritating and almost insulting that every website I visit requires me to accept some kind of cookie policy. Of course, I accept...
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Getting to know ChatGPT
I’ve spent the last few weeks getting to know this phenomenon known as ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence as it were. (https://chat.openai.com/) So what exactly IS ChatGPT? Well, let’s ask it. Q? What does ChatGPT stand for? Oh-kay… that doesn’t sound interesting at all… but it is! Lately, instead of Google, I’ve been logging onto my...
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My Computer Journey
I’ve been working on a computer since I got out of the Air Force in 1987. It was an IBM PS 2 connected to a spectrometer in a metallurgical laboratory in Birmingham Al. I’ve owned a personal computer since 1991. It was handmade by some guy in California and came with a 10mb hard drive....
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WordPress Archive Page NoIndex warning from Google
I turned on my phone this morning and was greeted by an ominous email from The “Google Search Console Team,” with the seeming dire warning… They provided me with a link to the console where I was told that the page davidfrancis.org/2023/02/ would not be indexed by Google because it contained the meta tag “noindex.”...
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Google AdSense said, NO!
I received an email with the subject: You need to fix some issues before your site is ready for AdSense The email goes on to say, “The team has reviewed it but unfortunately your site isn’t ready to show ads at this time. There are some issues which need fixing before your site is ready...
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Simple Favicon.ico with PhotoShop
So I just set up a new website this morning (oh, this website), and I wanted a custom favicon. It took 30 seconds to make and I thought I would share. What is a favicon? Wikipedia will be happy to explain. Thirty seconds? Yep.1) Find the image (I took a screen capture of my Google...
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Forcing SSL on a Domain IIS
I’ve been faced with this issue a few times. I simply want to force all traffic to the secure socket layer of my domain instead of the unencrypted side of things. Keep in mind that I’m a ASP classic kind of guy so I tend to think things the Microsoft way. I want all requests...