Our Love Frontier Has 1000 Likes!…

….	Date: May 25, 2022 Thanks to octaevius for pushing me past this milestone. It’s hard to gain any traction, when you’re fighting so many sources of oppression…Which is why I like to celebrate the small victories of Another Milestone. Sheer focus and refusal to back down, will take us to a better place… They know they cannot keep us down forever…They know we already have everything we need, to topple their tyranny… We need to not be afraid of continuing to chop away at their crumbling, ethically bankrupt foundation, from which they assault us. I cannot stress this enough…as I’ve seen it play out more than once… …MAPs gain real world traction, when we are seen, heard and understood. We are breaking through the stereotypes…And there is nothing anyone can do to stop us. MAPs will ultimately correct these many injustices. The world will be better off for it.	….

Dearest Microsoft…

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Of course, I’ll continue to keep using this PC…In fact, I may still need it to run certain software…So, I don’t expect to shelve it anytime soon…but I will no longer be prisoner to you, with regard to my simple blogging…or accessing the internet and my various accounts. Dearest Microsoft… Fuck You! for all you’ve put me through, over the past year and a half… Fuck You! for any of my preferred software, that I wont be able to use on my new Mac… Fuck You! for all the work I’m about to be put through, transferring files and software… Fuck You! for putting another roadblock in the way, and taking me away from my blogging and other activities while I’m tending to this… Fuck You! for putting me in such an insufferable position, that I’m forced to make this move right now… Fuck You! for backing me into a corner, and making me spend all of this money when it should be going to other things… Fuck You! for the contempt and disrespect you’ve committed towards me… Fuck You! for being a bunch of stupid motherfuckers, who cant build an OS that isn’t completely vulnerable to Russian hackers…And you “experts” have been doing this for how many decades?!…Dumb bastards… Fuck You! for licking the FBIs asshole on demand, and forcing your treacherous Windows 10 malpractice hack job down our throats, without even the courtesy of a simple forewarning on what to expect… Fuck You! for being complete assholes… To my beloved readers… …Please forgive my chronic bitching and fit throwing, over the last year in particular…This ordeal has caused me a great deal of stress and turmoil…a ton of anger…I’ve been dealing with a crippled machine, for well over a year…and it is entirely Microsofts fault. I appreciate all the technical advice I’ve been given…my only reason for not doing it [aside from holding out, in hopes Microsoft would fix its OS], is that I am no techie…and I’ve seriously screwed up at least one of my main PCs in the past, trying to fix or enhance something…I have a ton of files and content to get backed up onto some other device, while I continue to be very active online, with this PC…I’m not going to do anything major, until I get my stuff backed up…I’d rather die, than lose my work…I just don’t even care to go on, if I lose my past work. I’m honestly quite excited about unboxing my new Mac…and hope I did not make a mistake in this purchase…I didn’t encounter any other non-WinBlows options [IE: Linux], though I know this store has carried a few such options in the past…But, I always kind of wanted to try a Macintosh, anyway…They’re just so damn expensive…But, I guess it’s my new baby now.	….

Dear Minds…

….	Date: April 26, 2022 …I am so sick and tired of running into this problem on a chronic basis…at least once every four to six weeks…in an account that’s specified to keep me logged in, in the settings. If I don’t check into this account at least every other day, I get logged out…So I keep this set as a tab in my web browser…I refresh it, or it just automatically opens up, whenever I open a new browser window…just so that I can “guarantee” I don’t get logged out by your system. …And yet, inexplicably, I STILL find myself getting unexpectedly logged out by your system…at which time, I am forced to go through the pain in the ass, of getting back in… …I used to think two step authentication was the way to go…but good grief!…Your system takes forever to send me the code, just to turn around and tell me the code I just received “has expired”…You wont just e-mail me the damn code…or let me connect my authentication app…No, you want to text it… …And now you tell me I’ve reached some sort of “limit”, because I’ve requested you to resend a new code, exactly as a link you’ve provided invites me to do, a couple of times over…because your system wont send me the damn code?… …Kindly fix your piece of shit system, Minds. …And Stop Logging Me Out! I’m sick to death of being repeatedly kicked and locked out of my Minds account, for no apparent reason…Frankly, I’m starting to wonder if there isn’t some dirty sabotaging going on, at this point…Like you want me to abandon the account out of frustration, or something.	….

Anyone Remember When Fiber Optics Was Brand New?…

….	Date: July 10, 2020 01) The Future of Fiber Optics I tried to find the very first commercial, where Candice Bergen introduces the technology of fiber optics in the early 80’s…before any common person had even heard of such a thing… Really wanted to share that one, because it’s the one commercial I remember…but I kept running into other things. My internet service has been really spotty as of late…Just last night, I tried to download something…at which point I was informed it would take an estimated 314 hours +, at the download rate it was currently at… For the past month or so, I’ve been spontaneously losing connection to the internet…or some websites would become inaccessible…or accessing them would be painfully slow…and you’d get a lot of “X is handshaking with X” kind of messages…as it took forever to actually get something to load up… I’ve suspected for a good while now, that my phone company [aka, ISP] was doing some type of major work on the lines… …What I didn’t expect, was for them to send me a brand new modem…and a promise that faster speeds are on their way [with no specifics, of course]… Upon visiting their blog…I about fell over, when I realized they are actually doing it!…They’re replacing the old phone lines with fiber optics…Holy crap, no way!… …only about 35 years later than they should have… I never expected this…the phone companies have refused to make this change, for decades…despite that we’ve wanted it for decades…particularly for the internet… …but I live very rural, out among the corn fields…and when you don’t live inside a city, town or village, you literally get overlooked when it comes to this sort of thing…It’s like the old cable TV issue…If you lived “to far” outside of town, it wasn’t available to you at all… They do have GB [“gigabits”?] speeds in the nearby community…but we’ve been stuck at less than 180 KB per second service, for years… I’ve been contemplating contacting the service that offers it…But I know we could not get it out here…not from them…I’ve wanted it, though. The new modem is hooked up…I’m accessing the internet through it…I’m just waiting for increased speeds…while still suffering through the agonizing slow works, and spells of “down” time… I’m actually really excited about this…as it can be a game changer, where it comes to sharing media… …but in the immediate moment…my internet access is really, really, really crap…most of the time… It’s frustrating…and I’m probably going to take a few days off…literally… I have no idea when we will be on the other side of this change…nor exactly what to expect…but I’m already paying pretty high for my internet access…plus, I’m getting bent over, to cover the cost of this new modem…So, I expect to experience absolutely no skimping, or being shuffled down to any lower speeds, by my ISP…When other people are getting to do it for twenty dollars a month…I also expect to be able to down load that 10 GB file, within a 20 minute time window…or whatever the norm is, on fiber optics. I really want this over with…I’m very tired of the crappy internet connection. According to their blog…it seems that GB speeds are the goal. This is very welcome…but the transition is hell.	….

The WordPress Block Editor…

….	Date: May 21, 2020 They tried to push this thing on us a few years back…and now, allegedly, they are going to force it on us…by June 1st, I think the notice said?… As far as making posts go…I don’t care, so long as they leave at least one of the following alone…the really old “classic” editor [which still works just fine]…or the primary WordPress editor…Leave them accessible and usable as they are…and I will not have a neurotic meltdown… I have my private links set up, so I can get to either one of these good and competent editors… As to the “block editor”…This nightmare of a monstrosity is not made for people who just want to write…or who just want to paste their completed work into the straight forward, clean and obvious text boxes, pick their categories, pick a publishing time and hit the “publish” button… No…this piece of garbage is made for smart phone users…and tablet users, who want to endlessly fiddle around with a myriad of unclear options, and waste a whole lot of time composing a post…by dropping in “this”, “that” and “whatever”… Worse still…this stupid “editor” doesn’t even appear to be capable of producing posts for me, anymore…as it’s constantly screwing up my HTML…I’ve spent the last hour or more, trying to find a “block” setting that behaves like the large form in the main posting form…but, to no avail…It seems there is no way to make the “block” editor behave like the trusty, simple WordPress editor which I both need, and am entirely happy with. I compose all of my posts outside of the WordPress editor [both the good editors, and the shitty block editor]…I’ve been doing this for so many years, that I have it down to a very tight process, which rarely makes me go back and redo anything… Normally, I just copy from original copies on my hard drive…and I paste the content directly into the main post form, and then into the title box…pick my “settings”, and press post…I can post ten or more posts, fairly quickly…because most of my posts follow a certain form…and use much the same HTML… …And I have not only years invested in this personal system…I have insane amounts of personal work invested in it…and the prospect of having to re-figure and rework a massive ton of stuff…just to figure out how in the hell to get it to work with this piece of shit “block” editor…which I never asked for, and sure as fuck do not want any part of… The method I have been using the last several years has been working beautifully, thank you…I don’t need you being an ass, WordPress…I don’t need you throwing this obstacle riddled piece of garbage in front of me and demanding that I figure out how to work around such a senseless pain in the ass. This “block editor” does absolutely nothing good for me, and only represents an outrage inducing degradation to this service. What pisses me off even more…is that this came out of nowhere…So many of us have already rejected this stupid thing…I am a fucking, paying customer on this platform…and now, when I need to edit one of my pages [web pages and websites]…I cant just click on the “edit” link at the bottom of their page anymore…because I get taken to the stupid ass “block editor”…and I’m not going to let that screw up my webpages/sites…So, now I have to hunt every single page down in page editor…so that I can click on the “classic editor” link and be taken to the editor that actually works and wont screw up my hard work… Thanks for turning so many things into a burdensome chore…you inconsiderate shitheads. I’ve put so fucking much work into making this blog function like a well oiled machine… …Wordpress was pretty well perfect, the way it has functioned these last several years…This is already, exactly what I want. Remember…the internet still functions on the back of computers…not these piddly tablets and toys, you’re so obsessed with catering too… You cant just ignore the vast number of us who use computers, and try to force us into using software trash, that was designed for tablets and smart phones. This is so fucking senseless and stupid of you, WordPress. Why are you working so hard, to piss off good members of your user base?	….

‘Where to Find the Links’ – And a Facelift for the OLF Welcome Page…

….	Date: March 04, 2019 I finally gave Our Love Frontier’s Welcome Page a facelift, and an update. I’ve also more directly addressed one of the issues, which sometimes comes up on this blog…creating a recording to explain things…which I’ve embedded into it’s own section of the Welcome Page…and included in the OLF Audio Message Forum, on the righthand side of this blog. For those unaware…the primary links I am responding to [or giving as citation] are hyperlinked via a small graphic…It may be a button…a jewel…a spinning ball… I chose to do this, because sometimes web URLs get very long…and I’ve been blogging for so many years, that I’ve simply gotten tired of fussing with them so they don’t disrupt the structure of the blog post [ie: keep running on, way off the side of the screen]…and the obscenely long URLs just plain look ugly, in my opinion. The URLs are concealed behind some sort of small graphic, next to a 01) ‘Link Title Here’. This is how I do things, here… As a rule…if I bring over links out of things I’m quoting, I just link them as they appear in the original quote. Finding the Links: – This information has always been available at the Welcome Page, in the audio welcome message…But, it’s 13 minutes long, and a lot of people apparently don’t like listening to it. I confess…the recording is a bit wordy, and slightly rambling at points…but for all the information it imparts, it’s also fairly compact for an orientation to this blog. Hopefully, I’ve still got the raw text I used to create this file…pretty sure I do…Eventually, I plan on redoing that recording…slimming it down, and leaving out the “noise machine” intro and outro… I hope todays work has helped things run more smoothly, around here. – Steve	….

Updates and On the Horizon – January 21, 2019…

….	Date: January 21, 2019 WordPress has been doing a lot of behind the scenes work, and making changes…which means this blog can get a bit glitchy, sometimes…Keep this in mind, if you regularly leave comments on this blog…It pays to copy your comments to the clipboard, prior to hitting that submit button…Make sure you see a confirmation, that your comment is awaiting approval, before you move on…WordPress has been known to lose peoples comments, sometimes…and your comments are important to me. I’ve finally given the EQF Tools Page some much needed attention…Let me know what you think. It’s been a little while ago, but I’ve also had an update on the EQF Community Links page. The IBLD website has had it’s “next observance” dates updated. I’m going to actually get off my arse, and start using the “Recent Updates: (The EQF Bulletin)” feature, at the top of this blog…It’s been idle, with only a test audio file, ever since I set it up…The down side, is that you will likely get a voice synthesizer…The up side, is that you’ll get a quick heads up, on the recent changes and updates related to the EQF and Our Love Frontier. Oh!…and the WordPress incarnation of Our Love Frontier turns six years old, on January 29th, 2019! Beyond that…I’m working on a project…video game related, and total fluff…But I find it amusing…Progress is kind of slow…I have to figure out a thing or two…But, it should be fun…for me, anyway…The rest of you might think I’m just a total dork for doing it…I don’t know… …That’s on the horizon. – Steve EQF Tools Page EQF Community Links	….

Our Love Frontier Has Received 500 Likes!…

….	Date: December 02, 2018 I believe Kinder has done us the honor, of being the 500th person to push that “like” button!	….

New Addition to the EQF Community Links Page…

….	Date: September 02, 2018 I’m pleased to announce that there is a new Acquiring Research Papers section, on the EQF Community Links page. Hopefully, this will be useful. All the best… – Steve	….
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Community Submitted Content…

….	Date: July 17, 2018 I’m making a change to the way I publish content, submitted by “you”… It’s not going to get it’s own [not exactly] “sub-blog” structure, anymore…Instead, these posts will be represented by inclusion of the following… === Thanks to Name Here space space space space space space === I think it’s just going to be a lot easier, plus it will let me more easily incorporate some of this content into existing “sub-blog” series. As always…you can submit content for this blog, by clicking on the “Submit Content” link, on the right hand side of this blog…It’s fairly easy, and straight forward. – Steve	….