My photo of a rose at New York City's Brooklyn Botanic Garden. I took this photo on March 27, 2007, with my Nikon D40 DLSR camera (an older one from the collection). https://thenewleafjournal.com/rose-at-the-brooklyn-botanic-garden-2007/ #nyc #brooklyn #brooklynbotanicgarden #flowers #flower #rose #nikond40 #picasa #thenewleafjournal #newleafjournal

A post by blogger/webmaster Dariusz Więckiewicz about his site being arbitrarily banned by Bing inspired me to share our own Bing […] Possibly related posts... The story of our Bing blacklisting Naver Webmaster Trials and Tribulations Experiences in the Yandex Webmaster Portal Discovering Google Webmaster Integrates With Search Bing's and DuckDuckGo's CCP Problem Importance of Bing Indexing For Alt Search Removing pages from Yandex Turbo The Downstream Effects of Bing's Tiananmen Square Censorship A 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search…  ( 6 min )

From a report in Grist: Typically, when consumer tech companies reach out to lawmakers concerning right-to-repair bills — which seek to […] Possibly related posts... Bill's Secret Garden - A Pokémon Generation 1 Urban Legend Bing's and DuckDuckGo's CCP Problem The dangers of adapting school to tech Recommended F-Droid FOSS Apps For Android-Based Devices… The story of our Bing blacklisting History of the Mario Party Gloves The Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal Justin and Justina 〜 Blinded by Headlights Query for Bing on blacklisting and ChatGPT  ( 5 min )

My 2007 photo of a rose at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Possibly related posts... The Poetry of Charlotte Becker - Early Twentieth Century… Lizzie Deas' "The Christmas Rose" Farming Gold Roses for Money in Animal Crossing The Glowing Pink Rose of Grace Court in Brooklyn Heights Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ The Brown Leaf Turtle Bill's Secret Garden - A Pokémon Generation 1 Urban Legend The Brown Leaf in the Water on an Early Spring Day Installing and Running Bodhi Linux on a 2007 MacBook  ( 6 min )

I use Nomacs as my photo viewer on all of my Linux computers. I like it because it is easy to manage and make light edits to photos. I resize photos (usually such that the largest dimension is 800 px) for publication in The New Leaf Journal. Nomacs provides a side-by-side screen of the original and new photo in the save dialogue. Something about this one... https://thenewleafjournal.com/inflatable-colorful-easter-egg-bunny-thing/ #linux #nomacs #upscayl #photoedits #inflatable #easter #newleafjournal #thenewleafjournal #eyes #oddeyes

Re-printing "Blue Violets," an 1880 poem by a certain "K.V.M" first published in Harper's Young People. https://thenewleafjournal.com/blue-violets-an-1880-childrens-poem/ #flowers #violets #spring #poem #poetry

April 2023 has come to a close. The end of the month means a new entry in our month-in-review series, which […] Possibly related posts... The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday The Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100 The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ The New Leaf Journal Twitter Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… The Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal The story of our Bing blacklisting A 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search…  ( 12 min )

See also -- a follow-up article featuring re-touched versions of the flyover photos. https://thenewleafjournal.com/a-second-look-at-the-april-new-york-city-flyover/ #flyover #planes #nyc #brooklyn #blueangels #thunderbirds

My three photos of an April 28, 2020 Blue Angels-Thunderbird joint-flyover of New York City, taken from Columbia Street Waterfront District in Brooklyn, NY. In light of the fact that my only camera was my BlackBerry Classic, the photos were a bit better than I would have expected under the circumstances. https://thenewleafjournal.com/seeing-the-blue-angels-and-thunderbirds-from-columbia-street-waterfront-district/ #flyover #planes #nyc #brooklyn #blueangels #thunderbirds

From Brave’s news announcement: Every Web search result seen in Brave Search is now served by our own index. We’ve removed […] Possibly related posts... A 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search… The story of our Bing blacklisting Brave and DuckDuckGo Timer Search Shortcuts The Downstream Effects of Bing's Tiananmen Square Censorship An In-Depth Look at Norton Safe Search Importance of Bing Indexing For Alt Search Bing's and DuckDuckGo's CCP Problem Review of Wutsearch, a Search Engine Launchpad Peekier Search Engine Review  ( 5 min )

Welcome to the (syndicated) version of the 133rd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal. I (e)mailed the flagship edition of the […] Possibly related posts... The Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100 Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday The Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal The New Leaf Journal Newsletter How to Find Substack RSS Feeds and Other Notes The Newsletter Leaf Journal VIII New Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader  ( 11 min )

From Building a Fairy Kingdom in Britain (JSTOR Daily): In the late sixteenth century, people across Britain became obsessed with fairies, […] Possibly related posts... Fairy Tricycle Promotion from 1895 Harper's Round Table Bonner's "In Dreamland" Bedtime Story The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review Recording a Test New Leaf Journal Pokémon Sword and Shield… Historic Districts and Looming Tall Buildings Two Independence Day-Themed Pokémon Battles: Ferrell vs… The Great Chelsea Fire of 1908 - 114 Years Later Boat playground seen from Brooklyn Bridge On Finding Money In Your Coat Pocket 〜 A Justin and Justina…  ( 5 min )

Welcome to the 133rd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. April 27 marked the third birthday of The New Leaf Journal. I made sure that we had plenty of new articles for our birthday week. Below, you will find links to our newest articles along with twelve links from around the web and other news and notes. Table of contents Leaves from the birthday week that was Leaves from around the web The Old Birthday Leaf Journal Most turned leaves of the birthday week News leaf journal Notable leaf journal Taking leaf Leaves from the birthday week that was I published five regu…  ( 8 min )

I have watched the first few episodes of a currently airing anime series called My Love Story With Yamada-kun at Lv999. While I have not been impressed thus far, it did inspire an article. The first episode begins with the viewpoint protagonist, Akane, in the dumps after her boyfriend left her for another woman he met in an online game that he played with Akane. There is a scene where Akane opens up her laptop to log into the game. When she turns it on, I noticed a problem. Her relationship with her cad of an ex-boyfriend may be over, but her toxic relationship with Windows continues. I suggest she consider a new relationship with Linux. https://thenewleafjournal.com/leveling-up-yamada-kun-at-lv999-to-linux/ (Can neither confirm nor deny possibility that Microsoft de-indexing my site from Bing played a role in inspiring this article.) #anime #linux #windows #microsoft #humor

I have published two posts hear on Bear Blog about my main website project, The New Leaf Journal, having been blacklisted by Bing. De-indexed from Bing (1.17.23) Bing de-indexing update (1.18.23) The Bing blacklisting not only persists, but has also become worse. I discovered in the Bing Webmaster Console that all of The New Leaf Journal's pages had been purged from Bing's index. I subscribe to an RSS feed for Hacker News Page 1 in my feed reader. I saw an article titled Bing Jail a few days ago which caught my attention. In that post, a webmaster described his Bing blacklisting experience. I found that it was almost identical to my experience, right down to his site having been blacklisted in January 2023 and his pages being removed from Bing's index in March. He noted that several other …  ( 3 min )

On using Syncthing to sync my modded Umineko When They Cry game files and save directory between my main computer, a mini PC I use with my TV, and an always on Syncthing device. https://thenewleafjournal.com/syncing-umineko-when-they-cry-with-syncthing/ #syncthing #videogames #visualnovel #umineko

A wet duck standing on Pier 5 of Brooklyn Bridge Park. The duck was drying in the Sun. Note the very pretty dark blue/purple feather on its wing. The duck made a good photo subject because it did not pay its surroundings any mind as it calmly stood in place. A small Park vehicle (essentially a golf cart) drove by about 3 feet from the duck and our avian friend did not flinch. https://thenewleafjournal.com/duck-on-brooklyn-bridge-park-pier-5/ #duck #bird #brooklynbridgepark #nyc #brooklyn #pier #pixel3axl #thenewleafjournal #newleafjournal

I use a mini Beelink PC with the GNOME edition of Fedora with my TV (see discussing in my article on […] Possibly related posts... Brave and DuckDuckGo Timer Search Shortcuts On Improving the Environment For Gaming On Linux Creating a Search Engine Shortcut For Google Timer Installing and Running Bodhi Linux on a 2007 MacBook The Two Decade Mario Party Finally Ends History of the Mario Party Gloves Running ONScripter-En in Linux Visual Novel Directory Read the Fine Print - Buying a Cheap Mini PC For a Home… Going From ONScripter Visual Novel .exe to Native Linux  ( 5 min )

Four photos of a serene, wet, brown duck standing on Pier 5 of Brooklyn Bridge Park. Possibly related posts... Bird in Review 〜 Mandarin Duck Duck and Duckling Rescue Stories From Around the Web The NYPD's Duck Family Rescue in Midtown Manhattan Falcon Sighting at Brooklyn Bridge Park A Trip Across Brooklyn's Summit Street Bridge Freedom Tower in the Fog From the Brooklyn Bridge The Brooklyn Bridge's Mysterious Cobweb Lane Four May Issues of The Nursery Magazine (1873-81) The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations  ( 5 min )

While we are The New Leaf Journal, our focus on perennially virid content leads us to appreciate trees and leaves of […] Possibly related posts... Four May Issues of The Nursery Magazine (1873-81) Installing and Running Bodhi Linux on a 2007 MacBook The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review On Children, TikTok, and Social Media Stardom The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho Benjamin Harrison's Memorable July 4, 1888 Reviewing FrogFind: A Search Engine For Vintage Computers Quince recipes from Mary Eales's receipts Oldest Golfers to Contend for Majors Between the 1968 and…  ( 5 min )

For example, the older model had a 1 GHz dual-core processor, while the new version has a 1.8 GHz quad-core chip. Since the company is tight-lipped about exactly which processors are powering these devices, it’s hard to make an apples-to-apples comparison, but it sure sounds like the new model should be a bit more responsive.Both models have just 1GB of RAM, but the original InkPad Color had just 16GB of built-in storage, while the new model has twice as much. That said, it seems like the company might have omitted one feature when building the new model: there’s no longer a microSD card reader. I have the original PocketBook InkPad color and I generally like it. Most of the improvements in V2 would be welcome (albeit well short of prompting me to upgrade), but dropping the microSD card slot is a bad move. The article suggests that this may have been done to increase the tablet's water resistance, but I will take the SD card over being able to submerge my e-reader in 2 meters of water.

The New Leaf Journal was blacklisted from appearing in Bing's search results on January 14 and then fully removed from Bing's index in March. The reasons for our blacklisting/de-indexing appear to be unknown to every other search engine with its own index, including Google, Brave, Mojeek, Yandex, Seznam, InfoTiger, and Marginalia... only Bing. I read an article by a different webmaster who described almost identical Bing problems. That post inspired me to chronicle our ongoing Bing ban. (Note: The worst effect has not been Bing itself, but losing DuckDuckGo, from which we received many more referrals than Bing). https://thenewleafjournal.com/the-story-of-our-bing-blacklisting/ #bing #microsoft #searchengine #search #blog

We celebrate our humble online writing magazine's third birthday with a curated selection of article recommendations based on our most-read content from our first three years. Possibly related posts... The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday The Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100 Feeds and Read-It-Later for Online Reading RSS as a Facebook Alternative Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ Justin & Justina: Most-Read NLJ Content of 2020 The New Leaf Journal Twitter The Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal How to Find Substack RSS Feeds and Other Notes  ( 22 min )

Welcome to the (syndicated) version of Newsletter Leaf Journal issue 132.  We mailed the original newsletter on Saturday, April 22, 2023.  […] Possibly related posts... The Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100 Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday The Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal The New Leaf Journal Newsletter How to Find Substack RSS Feeds and Other Notes New Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader The Newsletter Leaf Journal VIII  ( 9 min )

I came across a very dry Christmas Tree on the sidewalk in APRIL 2021. While moving on from a Christmas Tree can be a pain, I thought that April seemed a bit excessive even by procrastination standards. https://thenewleafjournal.com/a-rather-dry-christmas-tree-in-brooklyn-heights-in-april/ #spring #christmastree #procrastination #nyc #brooklynheights

From a report by Mr. Brad Matthews for the Washington Times: Stanley Black & Decker has recalled 2.2 million DeWalt, Stanley, […] Possibly related posts... Tokyo High Schools Change Hair Color Dress Code Policies Amazon Black Hat Seller Scenario Hair Color Dress Code Rules in Japan Farming Gold Roses for Money in Animal Crossing History of the Mario Party Gloves Bing's and DuckDuckGo's CCP Problem Brown hair and dress codes in Ippon Again! Understanding Hair Color in the Kimi ni Todoke Anime Series Black Squirrel in a Tree in Brooklyn  ( 5 min )

A heartbroken anime girl is recovering from her jerk boyfriend breaking up with her to be with another woman. But what if I told you she needs to end her toxic relationship with Windows? Possibly related posts... On Improving the Environment For Gaming On Linux The Mystery of Sōseki and Tsuki ga Kirei Installing and Running Bodhi Linux on a 2007 MacBook Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20) Flood of Tears - Visual Novel Review Kaori After Story - Visual Novel Review Going From ONScripter Visual Novel .exe to Native Linux What is an "Android Alternative"? The Poetry of Charlotte Becker - Early Twentieth Century…  ( 9 min )

An in-depth look at the outside world from Bing Jail. Possibly related posts... Bing's and DuckDuckGo's CCP Problem Importance of Bing Indexing For Alt Search The Downstream Effects of Bing's Tiananmen Square Censorship A 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search… Kaori After Story - Visual Novel Review Query for Bing on blacklisting and ChatGPT An In-Depth Look at Norton Safe Search ACE Academy - Visual Novel Review Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ  ( 22 min )

From Teens Close the Distance in The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses PV on Crunchyroll: Love isn’t blind so much […] Possibly related posts... The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20) Height differences in anime romances The Best Anime Series of 2021 The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review Iroha Isshiki's Hair is Brown, as Expected? What Makes a Depressing Anime? Discussion and Selection. The Nice Boat 〜 A Look Back at the School Days Anime Kaori Orimoto's Hair is Blacker than I Expected  ( 5 min )

A new anime series tackles naturally brown hair, dyed brown hair, and Japanese school dress and grooming codes in two interesting scenes. Possibly related posts... Tokyo High Schools Change Hair Color Dress Code Policies Hair Color Dress Code Rules in Japan Understanding Hair Color in the Kimi ni Todoke Anime Series Iroha Isshiki's Hair is Brown, as Expected? Examining brown hair of popular anime characters Kaori Orimoto's Hair is Blacker than I Expected Nineteenth Century Autumn Dress Trends Hair Color and Albinism in Red Shift Visual Novel The Inspiring Political Comebacks of Byron Brown and Vito…  ( 15 min )

On April 22, 2023, the New York Post published a report titled Crazed man arrested for attack on walker in Central […] Possibly related posts... Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review EGM's 2001 Sega Neptune April Fools Joke Nintendo Power's 1999 Yoshi in Pokémon April Fools Prank Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… Recommended F-Droid FOSS Apps For Android-Based Devices… The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations Flood of Tears - Visual Novel Review Oldest Golfers to Contend for Majors Between the 1968 and…  ( 5 min )

I have received odd spam emails to my site domain email addresses promising millions of dollars or asking for donations for life-saving surgeries. However, a spam email offering a "proposal about [my] last name" might be the oddest yet. https://thenewleafjournal.com/leaf/odd-email-to-my-newleafjournal-address/ #email #spam

Welcome to the 132nd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. This past week was a bit slow at The New Leaf Journal on account of my having to do my taxes, finishing a couple of work assignments, and having problems with my right wrist. Nevertheless, I did publish a few new articles, and this humble newsletter will come with your usual assortment of links from around the web and other news and notes. Table of contents New leaves from the week that was Leaves from around the web The Old Leaf Journal Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week News leaf journal Notable leaf …  ( 6 min )

No need for video game cloud saves if you know how to use Syncthing (sometimes, probably). Possibly related posts... DecSync Review Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ Transferring Photos From My BlackBerry Classic Using KDE… Recommended F-Droid FOSS Apps For Android-Based Devices… Installing and Running Bodhi Linux on a 2007 MacBook Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho At Summer's End vs A Dream of Summer The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday  ( 10 min )

Many keyboard keys have been pressed on the effect of AI text generation tools on various industries. I offered my two […] Possibly related posts... Reviewing "Calculator the Game" - A FOSS PWA Math Game For… Recommended F-Droid FOSS Apps For Android-Based Devices… DHS Horse Appropriations and CBP Horse Patrol The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho The Mystery of Sōseki and Tsuki ga Kirei Reviewing Buddy Simulator 1984 for Switch Setting Up SoloKeys with Peppermint OS The Japanese Citizenship Requirement for Sumo Stablemasters An Essay on Productivity, Production, and Productive Leisure  ( 5 min )

Welcome to the (syndicated) version of Newsletter Leaf Journal 131. I am a bit late in syndicating our Saturday newsletter this […] Possibly related posts... The Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100 Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday The Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal The New Leaf Journal Newsletter How to Find Substack RSS Feeds and Other Notes The Newsletter Leaf Journal VIII An Introduction to RSS and Other Feed Formats  ( 10 min )

Shumplations recently published a translation of a 2011 interview with a former manager at Jaleco who went by Y-san.  I was […] Possibly related posts... Calvin Coolidge's 1922 "Better Homes" Remarks Bill's Secret Garden - A Pokémon Generation 1 Urban Legend Herbert Hoover's Better Homes Remarks: "The Home as an… Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… Applying Coolidge's Remarks on the Home to the Digital Home Introducing the 1922 Better Homes in America Demonstration… On Improving the Environment For Gaming On Linux The Poetry of Charlotte Becker - Early Twentieth Century…  ( 5 min )

Justin and Justina discuss a Consumer Reports study revealing troubling levels of cadmium and lead in some dark chocolate brands. Possibly related posts... Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… Justin & Justina 〜 4th of July Grill Sacrifices to the… Justin & Justina: Most-Read NLJ Content of 2020 Justin and Justina 〜 Merry Christmas. Who checks the mail… The Quince Shortage - Justin and Justina Justin and Justina 〜 Convincing a Google Devotee to Try… April Fools With Justin and Justina Justin and Justina 〜 A Christmas Card For Valentine's Day  ( 6 min )

1954 years to the day (April 16, 69 AD), the Roman Emperor Otho ended his brief reign by his own hand rather than continue in a Civil War for the throne against Vilettlius. Otho's seemingly noble(-ish) end captured the imagination of Roman historians in light of the fact he had previously been noted for his relationship to Nero, having serious debt problems, and seizing the throne by murdering his predecessor in January 69. I wrote a very long article about the enigmatic life and death of Otho, focusing on comparing four Roman historian accounts and their different opinions on the matter. https://thenewleafjournal.com/ancient-accounts-on-the-enigmatic-life-and-death-of-emperor-otho/ #history #romanempire #romanhistory #romanemperor #otho #yearoffouremperors

Welcome to the 131st edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. In addition to our usual assortment of links from the week that was at the NLJ and links from around the web, I will introduce a new addition to the site, not previously discussed on The New Leaf Journal, in our News Leaf Journal section. Table of contents New leaves from the week that was Leaves from around the web The Old Leaf Journal Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week News leaf journal Notable leaf journal Taking leaf Leaves from the week that was I published three regular articles since mailing new…  ( 7 min )

Shawn Respert was one of the best college basketball players of the early 90s, winning NCAA player of the year in 1995. After going 8th overall in the 1995 NBA Draft, he had a short, uneventful, five-year career with four different teams. While college success by no means guarantees professional success, some of Respert's troubles were linked to the fact he was diagnosed with stomach cancer during his first season (he went into remission in his second season). What prompted my article was the story of his response. Respert opted to keep his diagnosis secret, not only from the public, but also from his family -- even when he was being criticized in local media for his poor play. He resolved to only tell his story after his playing career was over in order to ensure that no one could say, succeed or fail, that he made any excuses (to be sure, he had a decent one). https://thenewleafjournal.com/playing-through-cancer-in-silence-shawn-resperts-nba-story/ #nba #basketball #sports #cancer

On April 12, 1908, the Great Chelsea Fire in Boston, Massachusetts destroyed a large chunk of the city. Last year, I came across a June 1908 book on the fire and summarized its contents, along with original photos, in an article. https://thenewleafjournal.com/the-great-chelsea-fire-of-1908-114-years-later/ #history #photography

I recently finished the second episode of the currenly-airing My Clueless First Friend anime. This series, set in a fifth grade […] Possibly related posts... The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review The Best Anime Series of 2021 Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20) Height differences in anime romances Tiki paralogue trick in Fire Emblem Engage What Makes a Depressing Anime? Discussion and Selection. The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review The Nice Boat 〜 A Look Back at the School Days Anime The Great Chelsea Fire of 1908 - 114 Years Later  ( 5 min )

I use the Ghostwriter markdown editor (see my Ghostwriter review) to draft articles for The New Leaf Journal and briefs and memoranda for my day job as a legal research specialist. In both cases, I have to convert my documents from markdown. I convert New Leaf Journal articles to .odt for editing while I convert my legal work to to .docx. (See my article on my New Leaf Journal workflow.) Since switching to Linux in 2020, I have used Arch-based Linux distributions. I began using Ghostwriter on Manjaro after my experiences using markdown to compose our Buttondown-powered newsletters inspired me to begin working in markdown. I moved from Manjaro to Arch's closer cousin, EndeavourOS, in August 2022, where I remain today. Ghostwriter has generally worked for me without issues. Early on, I had an issue with it sometimes not connecting to Pandoc, but that went away at some point. Since KDE took over development of Ghostwriter things were largely flawless. However, a few days ago, I noticed after updating either Pandoc or KDE (I did not catch which) that Ghostwriter was no longer recognizing Pandoc as a conversion option. This was a mild problem for me because I never took the time to learn the Pandoc CLI syntax (I really should get around to that). I could use MultiMarkdown to convert to .odt, but that vitiated many of my markdown formatting choices. However, before I had to deal with the issue for a work project, Pandoc returned as a conversion option after something was updated. Problem solved. It only proved to be a pain in the case of one somewhat long article wherein I had to re-do some of my formatting in Libre Office Writer. If you enjoy strange Ghostwriter issues, take a trip back in time to learn about a segfault issue I had on a fresh Manjaro install in 2021.  ( 2 min )

I received a very peculiar email at my @newleafjournal address (see contact page).  This is not the first strange email I […] Possibly related posts... Two Independence Day-Themed Pokémon Battles: Ferrell vs… Recording a Test New Leaf Journal Pokémon Sword and Shield… Learning How to Change a Twitter Username The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho Suspicious Email Claiming Bitcoin Scam The Pokémon Special Split in Generation 2 - Statistics and… The New Leaf Journal Newsletter Recommended F-Droid FOSS Apps For Android-Based Devices… History of the Mario Party Gloves  ( 5 min )

They say that the problem is always caching, but what kind of caching? I briefly describe a small visual display issue on my WordPress site that I resolved by clearing our Redis cache. https://thenewleafjournal.com/leaf/wp-redis-object-cache-and-link-hover-color/ #wordpress #wordpressplugin #redis #objectcache #caching

Nintendo Life asked readers whether they used motion controls in Mario Kart Wii.  I had (probably still have) the plastic steering […] Possibly related posts (relevancy may vary...): History of the Mario Party Gloves The Two Decade Mario Party Finally Ends Mario Party's Joystick-Wrecking Rotation Games Zero Gravity Foreshadowing in Super Mario Sunshine The Aborted Nintendo-Minnesota Lottery Scheme On Nintendo's Pro-User Cartridge-First Strategy Nintendo Power's 1999 Yoshi in Pokémon April Fools Prank Lateral thinking to extend game console life-cycles The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho  ( 5 min )

Against the tendency of purportedly American companies to export CCP censorship abroad. Possibly related posts (relevancy may vary...): The Downstream Effects of Bing's Tiananmen Square Censorship Bing's and DuckDuckGo's CCP Problem A 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search… Importance of Bing Indexing For Alt Search Emojis, Corporations, and Censorship Google's Mysterious Pro-Chinese Government Errors CCP opposes US bans on property purchases Review Of Night of the Forget-Me-Nots, a Freeware Horror… Microsoft Open Sources Emojis  ( 10 min )

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I came across a 2018 article published in BBC titled How the Finnish survive without small talk. I am by no […] Possibly related posts (relevancy may vary...): The Small Web, Artisanal Content, and Humane Design The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review Wasteful talk show subsidies in New York Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ Our Pixelfed Review in Finnish Wikipedia A 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search… Visual Novel Analysis - Shooting Star Hill  ( 5 min )

I review an anime series primarily for its interesting concept... but it is a decent series in its own right, granting its faults. Possibly related posts (relevancy may vary...): The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review The Best Anime Series of 2021 Height differences in anime romances Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20) The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review What Makes a Depressing Anime? Discussion and Selection. The Nice Boat 〜 A Look Back at the School Days Anime The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of…  ( 17 min )

I posted a Leaflet the other day on a nineteenth century man named Hyacinth, noting that it is not a name […] Possibly related posts (relevancy may vary...): Tiki paralogue trick in Fire Emblem Engage My Glass Cannon is Tankier than Expected 〜 Lysithea-Fire… The Great Chelsea Fire of 1908 - 114 Years Later Fixing a WP Custom Post Type Permalink Error Grape Hyacinths at the Botanic Garden Fire Emblem Engage's VTuber Hair Designer Hyacinth is an uncommon name these days Teaching the Art of the Video Game Snafu "Uncle Susan is a Wolf" - A Graffiti Photo and Research…  ( 5 min )

Welcome to the syndicated version of the 130th Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of The New Leaf Journal.  We mailed […] Possibly related posts (relevancy may vary...): The Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100 Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday The Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal The New Leaf Journal Newsletter How to Find Substack RSS Feeds and Other Notes The Newsletter Leaf Journal VIII An Introduction to RSS and Other Feed Formats  ( 10 min )

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In a 2019 interview, a representative of the Czech-based Seznam search engine (interesting Czech-based project with its own crawler) discussed the challenges of indexing English-language sites due to the fact that many block all crawlers except Google. Being a supporter of independent search indexes, I wrote a brief PSA for webmasters on the subject of allowing independent search engines with their own crawlers. In addition to Seznam, I singled out @Mojeek , InfoTiger, and Marginalia Search as being worth whitelisting for sites with generally restrictive robots.txt rules. https://thenewleafjournal.com/whitelisting-independent-search-crawlers/ #searchengine #search #indexing #bots #webmaster

The tagline of my main project, The New Leaf Journal, is "where the leaves are perennially virid." As I explained in a post on the inspiration for the tagline, the slogan gets at two ideas. The first is that I try to write evergreen articles. The second is that I try to produce unique articles worth your time. There is no shortage of writing online. Some of the writing even comes from the keyboards of human beings writing in a language they are fluent in. While I try to bring a fresh perspective to all of my articles, I cannot always say that my topics are unique. However, I published a short "leaflet" aside yesterday which I think is unique. I used to regularly watch professional golf. While I have not watched much golf in several years, I stay somewhat abreast of the goings on. Back in 2…  ( 3 min )

On May 23, 2021, Phil Mickelson won the PGA Championship, and in so doing became the oldest golfer to win one […] Possibly related posts (relevancy may vary...): Oldest Golfers to Contend for Majors Between the 1968 and… Golf and Immigration: Matter of Masters Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ The Best Anime Series of 2021 Visual Novel Review: May Sky The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review Four May Issues of The Nursery Magazine (1873-81) The Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal  ( 6 min )

I previously wrote about how I will watch the upcoming third season of the Rent-a-Girlfriend anime, either on account of inertia […] Possibly related posts (relevancy may vary...): The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review ACE Academy - Visual Novel Review The True Story of Jimmy McMillan and a (Too) Long Line at… Rent-A-Girlfriend S3 to air in July 2023 The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho Kaori After Story - Visual Novel Review Review of the Original Persona 4 Artbook The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review My Glass Cannon is Tankier than Expected 〜 Lysithea-Fire…  ( 5 min )

On March 14, 2021, I published a lengthy research article titled The Mystery of Sōseki and Tsuki ga Kirei. In that post, I collected English-language sources on a certain legend that Natsume Sōseki had suggested "tsuki ga kirei" (the Moon is beautiful) as a Japanese translation for "I love you." I had learned about the tsuki ga kirei legend from the excellent 2017 anime series (it featured in my decade review, Tsuki ga Kirei, and while it is likely a work of fiction (I knew that going into my research project), the phrase is aesthetically elegant. (Note before continuing: All of my page view statistics come from Koko Analytics, an entirely local and privacy-friendly analytics plugin for WordPress. It sacrifices a bit in accuracy for privacy, but my comparison of its recorded Google refers …  ( 3 min )

From Nancy Lasselle’s Washington Novels (Matthew Willis for JSTOR Daily.  April 7, 2023): Nancy Laselle (née Polke) was born in Indiana […] Possibly related posts (relevancy may vary...): The Nice Boat 〜 A Look Back at the School Days Anime Masonic Portrait of George Washington Washington's 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation A Children's Poem on George Washington Grape Hyacinths at the Botanic Garden An 1882 Children's Independence Day Poem "Washington's Birthday" Poem by Sangster Anna Jarvis and the Origin of Mother's Day in the United… 1892 Reports on First Year of Basketball  ( 5 min )

I remain undecided whether to interpret this as an inflatable egg dressed as a bunny, a bunny dressed as an egg, or a hitherto undiscovered egg-bunny. Possibly related posts (relevancy may vary...): Inflatable Carrot and Easter Bunnies in Brooklyn When President Coolidge Spared a Raccoon From Thanksgiving… The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review Recommended F-Droid FOSS Apps For Android-Based Devices… On Improving the Environment For Gaming On Linux Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20) Analysis of the From the Bottom of the Heart (Negaeba)… The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review  ( 6 min )

Welcome to the 130th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. We had a relatively normal week at The New Leaf Journal with a mix of regular articles and short posts. Below, you will find our recap of the week that was at The New Leaf Journal along with links from around the web and other news and notes. Table of contents Leaves from the week that was Leaves from around the web The Old Leaf Journal Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week News leaf journal Notable leaf journal Taking leaf Leaves from the week that was I published four regular articles and six short posts…  ( 7 min )

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I took a look at my Bear Blog analytics. Unsurprisingly given my small number of posts and the fact that I tend to reserve my best content for The New Leaf Journal (I largely leave quality determinations to others), I only have a handful of Bear Blog readers. From this small sample, I have noted that a majority of my readers are based in Romania. Nearly all of the referrals are from Bear Blog (not surprising). Are there a large number of Bear Blog users and readers in Romania or are people using VPNs? The sample size is too small for me to make much of it. I personally use Mullvad VPN, but I set the location to New York instead of Romania.  ( 2 min )

On March 18, 2023, the New York Post reported on problems on the recently launched modern R211 New York City Subway […] Possibly related posts (relevancy may vary...): The Poor Little Bird - Visual Novel Review Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… Freedom Tower in the Fog From the Brooklyn Bridge Wasteful talk show subsidies in New York The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations On NYC Curfews and Essential Workers Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20)  ( 5 min )

All links at The New Leaf Journal are a shade of blue.  Back in January, I set up the site so […] Possibly related posts (relevancy may vary...): Quince recipes from Mary Eales's receipts The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday A 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search… Tokyo High Schools Change Hair Color Dress Code Policies Oldest Golfers to Contend for Majors Between the 1968 and… Four May Issues of The Nursery Magazine (1873-81) Justin & Justina: Most-Read NLJ Content of 2020  ( 5 min )

Making the case for whitelisting Seznam and other good crawlers from independent index search engines. Possibly related posts (relevancy may vary...): A 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search… An In-Depth Look at Norton Safe Search Brave and DuckDuckGo Timer Search Shortcuts The Downstream Effects of Bing's Tiananmen Square Censorship Importance of Bing Indexing For Alt Search Peekier Search Engine Review Wallabag Custom Search Engine Shortcuts Review of Wutsearch, a Search Engine Launchpad Performing Site-Specific Searches With DuckDuckGo  ( 8 min )

If you decide to read Shooting Star Hill (see previous post in thread), I also wrote a separate, spoiler-filled story analysis piece. https://thenewleafjournal.com/visual-novel-analysis-shooting-star-hill/ #visualnovel #visualnovels #visualnovelreview

My review of Shooting Star Hill, the official English version of the freeware 2005 Japanese visual novel, Hoshi no Furu Oka. It tells the story of a lonely (alien?) girl and the boy who wants to befriend her. I enjoyed Shooting Star Hill and it is one of the better entries from the review project that I am doing. It takes about one hour to read and remains free to download and run. Linux users should either run the Windows version under WINE or replace the old Linux ONScripter-EN executable that comes with the game with the most recent build (links and instructions in article). (Note: I should really replace those old screenshots with borderless screenshots... someday.) https://thenewleafjournal.com/visual-novel-review-shooting-star-hill/ #visualnovel #visualnovels #visualnovelreview #onscripter

In my previous post, I offered my very early impressions of a free and open source Android feed reader and read-it-later app called Handy Reading. My early impressions were very favorable because, by combining feed reading and read-it-later into a local app, it perfectly suits my reading-flow (see my post on combining feeds with a read-it-later solution). However, I had one pressing issue with Handy Reading: Handy Reading re-fetches old, previously seen articles from a small number of feeds, which is a bit annoying. Two days later, I think that I have tentatively resolved the issue. By default, Handy Reading has a short "keep old articles" time. It seems that if a feed is offering old articles outside the scope of Handy Reading's kept article time, it will re-fetch those old articles and display them is new even if you have already marked them as read in the app. Fortunately, Handy Reading allows you to set the keep old articles period on a feed-by-feed basis. I have been doing that with the offending feeds and so far the results have been good. Provided no new issues pop up, I will try a few additional features of Handy Reading before proceeding to a review. One issue that I am particularly interested in is testing its import/export functionality, since that proved to be an issue with my previous solution -- Flym DecSync. I recently talked to one Mastodon user who reported that Handy Reading does not handle Mastodon feeds, which is true. While I hope this is fixed, it is not a priority for me since I do not use my feed reader for social feeds.  ( 2 min )

While I may have an ongoing struggle with Bing, I found an article about an even worse problem -- being incorrectly flagged by Google Safe Browsing. (Not wanting to tempt fate, I only wrote a short post on the matter.) https://thenewleafjournal.com/leafbud/website-blocked-by-google-safe-browsing/ #google #bing #googlesafebrowsing #webmaster

A positive review of a particular sunscreen brand and its easy-to-use re-fill pouches (mostly about what I great job I did on the re-fill). Possibly related posts (relevancy may vary...): "Cooking for Invalids" - Recipes For the Bedridden From… The NYC Outdoor Dining Standing Water Crisis Quince recipes from Mary Eales's receipts The Pokémon Special Split in Generation 2 - Statistics and… Japanese Environment in PoL, Lutris, and Bottles Recommended F-Droid FOSS Apps For Android-Based Devices… In Support of the Lawsuit Against NYC Dining Sheds Examining the-Man-With-the-Hose Recording a Test New Leaf Journal Pokémon Sword and Shield…  ( 6 min )

I have published many articles featuring Brooklyn Heights photos and reflections here at The New Leaf Journal. I posted a bit […] Possibly related posts (relevancy may vary...): Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… CUNY Un-Persons A Successful Alum ACE Academy - Visual Novel Review Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ Golf and Immigration: Matter of Masters The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho St. Francis sells Brooklyn Heights campus Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20) Persona 4 Golden Digital Artbook Review (Steam)  ( 6 min )

I describe an interesting (fortunately minor) issue I had with my WordPress caching plugin, WP Super Cache, and disabling two types of lazy loading. Certain changes or updates seem to restore lazy loading, requiring me to manually flush the cache. The issue is easy to resolve... fortunately much easier than back in June 2020 when Bluehost (we're no longer with Bluehost) had some terrible server side caching that cached a plugin-cached version of my homepage from a week earlier (that was fun because I had no idea what I was doing in June 2020, I have a 33.4% idea of what I am doing now). https://thenewleafjournal.com/wp-super-cache-preload-and-lazy-loading/ #wordpress #caching #wordpressplugin #blog

The New Leaf Journal, like much of the internet, is powered by WordPress. Unlike much of the internet, however, I work […] Possibly related posts (relevancy may vary...): Quince recipes from Mary Eales's receipts The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho The Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100 The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ The Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal April Fools, Sonic and Tails in SSB Melee The New Leaf Journal Twitter  ( 7 min )

From a CNBC report: Vince McMahon’s World Wrestling Entertainment is in advanced talks to be sold to Ari Emanuel’s Endeavor Group, […] Possibly related posts (relevancy may vary...): The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho ACE Academy - Visual Novel Review History of the Mario Party Gloves Bing's and DuckDuckGo's CCP Problem Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20) The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations Immigration Issues in NYPD Chinese Agent Case The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review  ( 5 min )

Welcome to the syndicated version of the 129th Newsletter Leaf Journal. For once, I syndicated our Saturday newsletter on Monday (which […] Possibly related posts (relevancy may vary...): The Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100 Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday The Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal The New Leaf Journal Newsletter How to Find Substack RSS Feeds and Other Notes The New Leaf Journal Twitter The Newsletter Leaf Journal VIII  ( 11 min )

From Mr. Stephen Brennan on his blog: What happened: for some reason, my site got onto a list called ‘Google Safe […] Possibly related posts (relevancy may vary...): An In-Depth Look at Norton Safe Search Recommended F-Droid FOSS Apps For Android-Based Devices… Custom Search Shortcut For Norton Safe Web The Quiet End of Google Bookmarks A 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search… Creating a Search Engine Shortcut For Google Timer Importance of Bing Indexing For Alt Search Query for Bing on blacklisting and ChatGPT Peekier Search Engine Review  ( 5 min )

I had been using DecSync, a decentralized cross-device synchronization solution designed to work with Syncthing, with RSS readers on my LineageOS and Linux devices for about one year. I planned to write a full review of DecSync for RSS. However, by the time I finally sat down to write my DecSync review, I had already moved from using DecSync for feeds to Handy Reading, a free and open source feed reader and read-it-later app for Android. Handy Reading, a fork of the no-longer-maintained Flym feed reader, is available on F-Droid. The Flym link is notable for me since I had been using a different Flym fork, Flym DecSync, prior to switching. I am very impressed with Handy Reading two weeks in. It does not have the prettiest UI (compares unfavorably to Feeder in this respect), but it is good e…  ( 3 min )

Microsoft wants students to use an app that asks them to talk about their feelings in school with a Microsoft cartoon monster. Their feelings will then be shared with teachers (and Microsotf?) This app is touted as not only being for young children, but also college students. I had some... concerns. You can read my concerns, but you won't find them on Bing or DuckDuckGo because Microsoft continues to blacklist us with no explanation. https://thenewleafjournal.com/the-dangers-of-adapting-school-to-tech/ #microsoft #education #privacy #classroom