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Chrome has a very complicated data model that appears to offer you granular control of your data and how it is managed/saved by Google.
In reality, Chrome’s privacy settings are complicated by design to try and obscure how Google is collecting your data and to effectively limit how you are able to manage that data collection and what Google does with your data .
Go to https://myaccount.google.com/contacts
Turn this OFF.
Google makes money by ‘personalising’ your experience. In practice, this means Google aggregates as much of your online and offline activity as it can in order to profile you as accurately as it can. The more accurate the profile, the better it can personalise your experience, and the more accurate the ads Google can target you with… and the more $£€ Google makes (off of you).
Go to https://myaccount.google.com/data-and-personalization, and scroll down to the activity section to see what personalisation settings are active.
You will want to go to each of the three sections and pause ‘personalisation’ – fortunately they’re all actually on the same page at https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols .
I really wanted to like the Santa Cruz Chameleon… but I didn’t.
It’s light, really stiff, and climbs really well (on tarmac or manicured trail/path). Going downhill was a different story – it was super skittish and the rear end *never* stayed down – felt like I was riding a pogo stick.
So I did try a Santa Cruz Chameleon – I really wanted to like it, but oh my I didn’t. It was VERY bouncy and uncontrolled on rough ground, climbed pretty well though.
I like well-padded but not unwieldy mtb gloves and these are the best I’ve found. Was great to find a replacement pair as the velcro on my old ones had given out – which is why I’d avoid gloves (or anything actually) with small velcro closures.
Unfortunately a) hard to find, and b) not quite as comfortable as the pair they replaced due to the different padding design and composition.
The Colinton Tunnel was built in the 1800s as part of the Balerno branch railway line. Muralist Chris Rutterford has been brought in by the Colinton Tunnel Project to paint murals along the 140m tunnel.
You can get to the tunnel by following the Water of Leith cycle-path.
My MacPro has started opening the DVD tray whenever it restarts, which is annoying. Why is it doing this?
Because it thinks it should be starting from an optical disk, and if it can’t see one it opens the tray for you to insert one.
Go to System Preferences, set a different startup disk (i.e. select a hard drive), and restart.
If you call get_the_excerpt() WordPress returns a string that looks like an excerpt – but it might be an automatically generated word-counted trimmed-down chunk of the post’s content. Here’s how I filtered get_the_excerpt() to get the results I wanted.
Cross-posted from edinburghwp.com
Working with excerpts in WordPress, or why isn’t this filter working?
If you call get_the_excerpt() WordPress returns a string that looks like an excerpt – but it might not be . If your post doesn’t have a handcrafted excerpt, WordPress returns an automatically generated word-counted trimmed-down version of the full post content – and this may not be what you want. Here’s how I tweaked the code to get post excerpts as I wanted them.
Cross-posted from edinburghwp.com
There are two things you need to do if you want WordPress to use Page Templates…
Cross-posted from edinburghwp.com
If you use a static front page for your WordPress site, you may (or may not) want it to show up in your site’s search results. If you want to exclude your front page from your search results, use this code.
Cross-posted from edinburghwp.com