Author: dougrogers

Considering moving LondOntLife to Tumblr. The major following is off Twitter for the very localized cartoons, so it really doesn’t need WordPress as a storage place for the images. Clicks back to the blog are minimal. WordPress shares nicely with other social sites, but feeds only a link to Twitter.

mytitle Block Editor AAAARGH….

Black Death Comes to The City I was futzing about again with marks becoming an image. Over a few days the scribbles turned into this. Today the article below showed up in a news feed. https://www.fastcompany.com/90423806/its-too-late-for-a-carbon-tax-its-time-for-a-world-war-against-climate-change Basically, all the dithering and moaning and whining about costs and delays have brought

Micheal Rogers, (not surprisingly, not a relation) wise moderator of the FamilyTreeDNa project Rogers/Rodgers comments on this rare entire lack of DNA matches. … it’s apparent that your own ancestral path branches off below R-L23, a very ancient R1b branch just below M269. Your L23 branch is ancestral to major

The thing which twigged this genetic geneological historical research was discovering I held an ancient late Ice Age mutation. Discovering The Families of Savigno answered so many questions in one swell foop. The story handed down was that we had been in Italy forever. This wasn’t completely true. How does

Twitter it seems has cracked down on ‘bots’ posting to feeds. This seems to be excluding, as far as this affects me, IFTTT autoposting images from Londontlife.wordpress.com to @londontlife. Even WordPress’ autopost mechanism fails to post the image. Driving clicks to the blog has been interesting, but just ain’t the

Ancestry has done an update. Information in databases grows. My Italian has dropped from 21 to 14 to 4%. Interesting. And I’m not going to go on all alarmed and screeching on Facebook about how they got my ethnicity wrong. The earliest record for my family in Monteleone di Puglia