bloxlox

If I were to offer guidance to anyone considering embarking on a start-up at its and possibly their outset, I would recommend advice I read at the same stage in my life and promptly ignored: “My advice is to take no advice.” But if you plan on making a dent in the universe, as Steve Jobs suggested, then I would consider that the sooner you start the better. For two simple reasons. First, as life proceeds it accumulates obstacles, albeit decidedly attractive obstacles like houses with picket-fences in the suburbs, marriage, kids and the prospects of promotion within the field of your choice. Second, the brain becomes more hard-wired with each passing year into you mode of living. The people I have known most able to take risks are those who’ve had most jobs, because the fear of losing any one job never becomes ingrained. It is also a truism that the sooner you start to try something, the easier it is to adapt it to your nature. With the effective deregulation of the global airline i...

The article's so good a guide that I provide a link from the site. The general feedback I get as I put out feelers is that people begrudge the time that Captchas consume while  considering passwords to be a necessary evil with limited bearing on their lives, much like the legal agreements that everyone clicks on without a further glance. I could never understand why the closest thing we had in the UK to M.I.T. was UMIST ~ an independent university founded in 1824 which had done pioneering work and not least in computing ~ should be absorbed into Manchester University. Like someone saying, "Let's call it Massachusetts University!" prior to going out to get the coffee and donuts. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/24/1081139/captchas-ai-websites-computing/

Need to get a handle on whether the original host for the website was hijacked, why and how.  Thought I'd left that behind with the airline business... (The Canadian hosts replied to say that due a system upgrade (sic), the website was removed, the  domain removed as an add-on and users debarred access in order to fix it... it's how nuclear wars begin.)

I restore the website at www.bloxlox.com and all's well with the world, least for now.

Within hours of upload the site it is taken down by persons unknown and access to the servers denied! And that was among my best day's work ever, yesterday! Was it MI5? The CIA? Ronald McDonald? We may never know...

I produce a website by way of pitching the idea to potential VCs. (That's venture capitalists, incidentally, and not vicars.) Because I think pictures make better menu-picks than numbers. Have yet to ask these people's permission... but then I've eaten lots of his burgers over the years!

A day that may change everything, or nothing. I file a patent, something I've done a lot of over the years. It's for a screen access system, and an idea I had decades ago, tho' updated for now.