Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Oct from Jacqueline - Google's blue polka dot

 


We have several newer exchangers. Often times the new people have a style that will stick in my head. Jacqueline is an excellent illustrator. I know she's east of the Mississippi but not in the south. And I'm not sure if she lives in Richmond VA.  She's done characters that I recognize - like Wilbur the pig from Charlotte's Web. I feel like this is a character - but I do not recognize them. I do not know if Jacqueline reads the blog daily - but if you do - maybe you'd enjoy knowing that people have commented to me about how nice your envelopes are.

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Most of us have probably experienced that thing that happens when something that came up during an in-person conversation starts popping up on one's phone - and we all know that our devices listen to us and offer suggestions. 

This free blog service that I have been using for 15 years has taken *listening* to a new level. They have a thing that has a name - but I do not remember the name. It put a blue polka dot on this page where I am typing. The blue polka dot has a little pencil and then another little emblem that I can't figure out. It might be an X or square tipped onto the diagonal. It suggests *magic* - maybe? 

I do not know what I did to activate it - but something popped up that said something along these lines:
Hi. I'm a new feature. I will pay attention to what you are writing and if I see something that I think your readers might want to know more about - I will just go ahead and make the words blue and underline them and then link to more information. 

Yikes. 

The last thing I need is something that is not an actual person - inserting things into my blog posts. How will you know if a link is something that I intended or something that *Google* want to put up there to distract you. 



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