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WordPress <> Facebook Page Cross Posting with PolarFox

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My blog is a hybrid communication platform and archive. My tweets get auto posted here, for example. Longer form stuff, PDFs, video files, they’re all here too. But some mid-length content, like a quick review of a show or movie, I would like to post to both my Facebook page …

Tweeted February 03, 2016 at 04:54PM

Tweets

Hey @Connectifier what do I have to do to get you to clean your data? My contact info is connected to a different person's profile. #fail

— Ricardo Sanchez (@rickzilla) February 4, 2016

I Try Desk PM for Mac

Writing

A fellow blogging friend of mine suggested that I should try an app called Desk PM as a desktop interface for my self hosted WordPress blogs. It’s on sale for $20 so I figured why not? If it lived up to the hype it would get me writing more. It …

Lee Majors is The Fall Guy

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There was a lot of bad tv in the 80s, but there was some good stuff too, and The Fall Guy may well be one of the best, if for no other reason than the theme song is the best tv show theme song in history. If you don’t believe …

Shifty Look Dig Dug

Comics

I was cleaning off my hard drive and ran across a project a did a few years ago, a web comic based on Namco’s Dig Dug video game for their IP farm, Shifty Look. It’s not around any more, but Shifty Look was a web comic platform devoted to developing …

Rutger Hauer in Split Second

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This weekend’s so-bad-it’s-good film is this gem from 1992, Split Second, starring Rutger Hauer. Set in the far future of 2008 this film manages to incorporate nearly every trope of 80s and 90s cop films, plus some. Hauer plays a “crazy” cop with a bunch of weird habits whose methods …

Gerry Anderson’s UFO Series

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Say Gerry Anderson and most sci-fi fans think Space 1999 or Thunderbirds. I’ve been re-watching UFO, a series he did set in the distant future of 1980, where the world is beset by attacking UFOs. It’s his first live action series and a fun show with really good special effects …