PEACHFRONT SPEAKS

The Online Mineral Museum IS BACK!!!.

The Amazing Bolivian Parrot and Rare Macaw Escapade
Eagle Overload: More Eagles, More Cats, the South Africa Edition
MY KENYA DIARY: IN QUEST OF EAGLES
MADAGASCAR DIARY: SERPENT-EAGLES, GOSHAWKS, AND MORE
A Very Partial Index to the Entries
A for the time being not even remotely complete guide to all 4,300+ plus entries
BIRDS***BIRDING***WILDLIFE GARDENING
SF/BOOKWORM***NUCLEAR/SPACE *** TRAVEL
A Google-Plus Verified Author

contact me older entries newest entry
Recent entries

july 4, 2018 - 2018-07-04
the triangle continues of courtney, boobear, & nyota - 2018-07-03
Cookie so cute telling, "Hello" to sparrows - 2018-07-01
lovebirb in love - 2018-06-30
wren with fluffffff - 2018-06-24


Read my new book, The 10 Best Things You Can Do For Your Bird at Amazon or at many other fine distributors like Barnes & Noble, iTunes, Kobo, and more.


By public demand, and after a delay of an embarrassing number of years, I've finally put my notorious essay, Ender and Hitler: Sympathy for the Superman, free on the fabulous internets.

A bibliography of my published books and stories.

Here's a simple card-counting FAQ to get you up to speed on the basics. Here's the true story of the notorious DD' blackjack team, told for the first time on the fabulous internets. No other team went from a starting investor's bankroll of zero to winning millions of dollars.


A Sadean take on Asimov's classic Three Laws of Robotics can be found in Roger Williams' NOW REVIEWED ON SLASHDOT!!! The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect. Adult readers only please -- explicit sex and violence. For updates on the "Dead Tree Project" and other topics, you may visit the official fan site, Passages in the Void..


My Bird Lists -- My Louisiana State Life List, My Yard List and, tah dah, My World Life List.


HEY! What happened to the Peachfront Conure Files? The world's only OFFICIAL Peachfront Conure site now features free peachfront conure coverage, including a magazine length Intro to Conures previously published in American Cage-Bird Magazine, now free on the web. I offer the best free Peachfront Conure information on the internet. If you have great Peachfront Conure info, stories, or photos to share, contact me so I can publicize your pet, your breeding success, your great photograph, etc. on my site. Thanks.







i've deleted my facebook account so don't take any wooden nickels from fakes on facebook

2015-01-05 - 8:37 a.m.

I was going to beautify my timeline on Facebook last night, but then I found out what was involved in deleting an entire year's worth of old posts when I was working for an online aggregator which required me to post and discuss 10-12 news articles I'd written every day. It would have taken forever. My last day of work was September 2, and I managed to actually delete my efforts of September 2 but it was endless.

Evidently it's true that Facebook records and posts/saves every keystroke once you open "all activity" instead of just "highlights." If you don't know why it would take that long, well, I might have some scary news for you, if you've ever worked as a writer and posted your own links to Facebook. Turns out that every time I checked one of my articles to respond to reader's comments, there was an automatically generated Facebook post that told the world I'd read an article on the aggregator. It was hideous. Ugh! Why didn't anyone mention how hideous my Timeline was before? Because I had no idea and since I was unknowingly set on "highlights" all along, I didn't even see how ugly it looked. Double ugh!!!

And there is no longer a way to mass delete a group of posts. You have to delete them all one by one. Impossible. Then I tried to see if I could just delete that year of posts. Equally impossible.

The choice seemed to be to continue having a timeline that reflected a lot of stuff I wasn't interested in but only had on my timeline because I wrote it for work -- or to delete my Facebook account.

I voted for delete. It's quick, it's easy, and since everyone I actually know gets in touch with me by email or Twitter, it will probably go unnoticed. I hardly go there anyway. It seems like every time I go there, one of my Facebook friends has either announced a death or a serious illness. It was making me extremely anxious. I suppose that's because, having started the account as a job requirement, I never turned anyone away as a friend because I always had to consider they were a potential reader for my publisher. So I had a lot of friends that I wasn't even really sure who the heck they were...but a lot of them are really getting up there, that's for sure. The constant parade of sickness and death was really doing my head in...

later

A lady photographed two Brown Boobies flying in Mandeville yesterday. I just saw the photo. Wowsers!

back - next

about me - read my profile! read other Diar
yLand diaries! recommend my diary to a friend! Get
 your own fun + free diary at DiaryLand.com!

All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2002-2017 by Elaine Radford