Appreciate Quality and Express Gratitude

In my last post, I described that someone sent me an email to ask me to share some of what I have learned. So I posted about learning to listen and not always be the first one with an opinion.

Today, I will write about another thing my email-writer remarked about:

You emphasize detail and the importance of quality: Fewer and fewer people appreciate these wonderful things or express their gratitude when someone takes the time to demonstrate them.

Again, wow… I really did not think that this little blog would have this characteristic noted. Thank you.

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Browsers of This Blog

I am always curious about who visits this blog. I have a small snippet of software that collects information about visitors (in a general but not specific sense) and provides interesting information.

Before implementation of the European GDPR privacy law, I used to see data on what keywords people were searching and I used those findings to develop posts for this blog. After all, if I knew what information people were searching, I could write about topics searched if the topic fit this blog’s primary focus.

However, that information is no longer provided due to implementation of this privacy law. Even though it applies only to Europe, its effects span the globe.

So now I can see…
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Beating Boot Blog Block

I having been writing this blog for over ten years now, and it is harder and harder to come up with fresh content on my schedule of posting something new every other day.

I found some web pages that provided some suggests on how to overcome this situation which happens much too often to me.

One website suggested that I need to write catchy titles. Using the word “boots” as a title generating noun, the website was suggesting…
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Yay!

Well, I am not the only one who detests that new “block” editor that came with the so-called “upgrade” for WordPress (what powers this blog.) I read many rants about it on a forum when I was looking for…
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