A few weeks ago, I started to experiment with Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT. I have since learnt that there are several other AI tools out there (shout out to Instagram for the education). I had heard about Rephrase.ai from Alicia Lyttle, which is a software you can feed what ChatGPT generates into, and it will write it differently, so it doesn’t sound like ChatGPT wrote it.
I decided to try it. Here are the results.
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Personally, I am ok with WordPress!
I started blogging in 2003. The Caribbean bloggers of old would remember. I blogged often, because, like now, I was only working intermittently. It was a great time in my writing life, especially since I resisted the blog for so long. I went for long periods without blogging, once I started to work steadily in 2006. The blog then had an accident and we’re trying to revive it.
In the meantime, I was reading a techy’s blog last night and the guy was giving tips to use when buying domain names and the first tip was about researching the history of that domain name. I didn’t read the rest of the article, instead, I headed straight to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine site, entered the dot com version of this blog (lost that domain name too and now some Brazilian person has it), selected 2003 and voila! Continue reading
Imagine I have been back in this island for about four weeks and today was the first time I have been to the beach! When I was in a proper job up to the end of last year, working six days per week, mi woulda bex if on the one day off, the weather was not sunny. I had thought that when my employment situation changed, I would have been at the beach several times per week.
In between the sounds of the gently lapping ocean, I psycho-analyzed it. Because now I can go to the beach any time, there is no rush to get there. When I only had one opportunity per week, it seemed scarce and so had to be grabbed.
As you can see, there were few people here at BBC Beach. Just the way I like it. There was a large group of foreigners in my usual spot. I didn’t see the beach chair renter guy so I just took up a lounge chair, along with a regular chair for my first-to-be-used beach bag [because me and bag cyan share chair]. I knew he would come along soon enough and I would pay him. He came. I did.
My beach essentials are very simple. Two types of sunscreen (the quick tanning one for the body and the stronger one for the face), music, a hat, a snack and my journal. Sometimes I carry a magazine but invariably it does not get read because I am so at peace in my own thoughts while listening to a variety of music and taking in the scenery. Continue reading
…well two, actually. The other http://www.yamfoot.blogspot.com/ was started when the original one www.yamfoot.com developed problems. Then I inadvertently lost the yamfoot.com domain (it’s making a round the world trip, having been Scottish and is now Brazillian!) and switched to a dot net.
Then other problems happened with the data stored on the Server and I had to revive it here at WordPress. I am still hopeful that the archives from the original blog will be resurrected…..one fine day. In the meantime, I will now type the text and save it to a Word document first, so in any future archive disasters, I will still have the content…..once I remember to back it up.
Blogging was foisted upon me. Usually that has negative connotations, however, this is a good story.
