📺 “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” Malcolm Goodwin | CW

Watched "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" Malcolm Goodwin from CW
With Aisha Tyler, Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, Wayne Brady. Great comedy brains are at work with a guest appearance by iZOMBIE's MALCOLM GOODWIN. Hosted by comedian Aisha Tyler, cast members Ryan Stiles, Wayne Brady and Colin Mochrie, along with guest comedian Gary Anthony Williams, put their comedic skills to the test through a series of spontaneous mprove games that are prompted only by random ideas supplied by the studio audience. The four performers ...

📺 "Kids Baking Championship" Macaron Madness | Food Network

Watched "Kids Baking Championship" Macaron Madness from Food Network
With Duff Goldman, Valerie Bertinelli, Jenna Alnatur, Paige Goehner. Macarons are a wildly popular dessert, and macarons decorated with faces are a definite trend. Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the nine young bakers to create macarons decorated with both happy and sad faces.
I’m not sure why I watch this fluff…
Listened to The Daily: Who’s Actually Electable in 2020? from New York Times
A new poll from The New York Times reveals which Democratic candidates may have a competitive edge against President Trump in battleground states.

👓 MailChimp RSS to Email Newsletter – A Complete Guide | WPism

Read MailChimp RSS to Email Newsletter - A Complete Guide (WPism)
A Complete Guide to set up email Newsletter using MailChimp RSS to Email feature. Learn how to use MailChimp RSS Campaign to send an automated Newsletter.
Nothing stupendous here that I couldn’t figure out by just moving my way through Mail Chimp’s online workflow. Of course this probably speaks reasonably well of Mail Chimp’s user interface.

Hopefully tomorrow we’ll have a weekly newsletter up and running.

👓 Seona Dancing | SeonaDancing.com

Read Biography Seona Dancing (web.archive.org)
Seona Dancing was a 1980s British pop group best known for providing Ricky Gervais with his first taste of fame. The band was formed in 1982 by aspiring pop stars Bill Macrae and Ricky Gervais. Their single "More to Lose", released in 1983, only made it to number 70 on the Billboard charts, and the band quickly disbanded in 1984. A year later, in 1985, a DJ from 99.5 DWRT-FM in Manila in the Philippines started playing a song called "Fade" by Medium (also billed as "Medium" by Fade). It became a runaway hit, and the angsty theme song for many Filipino teenagers in the mid 1980s. Eventually, the identity of the song was revealed as "More to Lose" by Seona Dancing. Bill Macrae faded into obscurity, but years later Ricky Gervais found new fame as the co-writer and star of the hit BBC comedy The Office.
He definitely had a different look when he was young!

👓 Infographic Breaks Down Film Genre Popularity of the Past 100 Years | No Film School

Read Infographic Breaks Down Film Genre Popularity of the Past 100 Years (No Film School)
Check out this cool look into how Film Genre Popularity has evolved over time from 1910 - 2018.

👓 Reply to: Bookmarked NowNowNow (nownownow.com) | Indieseek.xyz Indieweb Directory

Read Reply to: Bookmarked NowNowNow (nownownow.com) by Brad Brad (Indieseek.xyz Indieweb Directory)
 First, thank you for bringing this to my attention.  I have listed NowNowNow in the Hyperlink Nodes Directory as a niche directory. Second, Yes!  This is exactly what I’ve been yammering on about with decentralized search (or decentralized disco...

Reply to Greg McVerry on changing themes from GitHub

Replied to a post by Greg McVerryGreg McVerry (INTERTEXTrEVOLUTION)
Just updated @dshanske 2016-IndieWeb theme, didn’t use GitHub plugin, will be too hard for students, instead it was backup, switch themes, go into file manager>wpcontent>themes and delete, then reupload, activate. If you want autoupdates use SemPress but it wasn’t bad
Might be easier for them to do it through the admin ui located at /wp-admin/themes.php

  1. Change temporarily to another theme
  2. Delete old version of theme by clicking on it and then clicking on delete in the bottom right corner of the pop-up/modal
  3. Click Add New button at top
  4. Click Upload Theme button
  5. Select and upload the .zip file they downloaded from GitHub (or other location)
  6. Activate the updated theme

Fortunately needing to update themes doesn’t happen often. If you’re using a GitHub theme then be sure to “watch” the repository on GitHub and enable email notifications for it so that you’ll see any future updates, issues, or ongoing work to know about needing to update in the future.

Hint: this workflow could also be used to upload the theme from an external source in the first place.

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