Recent posts tagged technology
2023
Burnt Kindling
The next e-reader I get isn't going to be one of these.
2022
Crossed Wires
Sometimes, just sometimes, you gotta let a professional deal with things. Case in point: flaky internet service.
Leaving The Nest
When a Tweeter considers exiting.
2021
The Artificers
Something is not "artificial" because of its means of production, but if the act of producing it, in whatever form, goes against your inner convictions.
Crosseyed And Painless
Good thing I set aside all that money for PC upgrades, right?
A Megaphone Of One's Own
Reflections on something like 25 years of blogging.
The In-House Art Preservation And Digital Collage Society
A new flatbed scanner joins my in-home digital creation arsenal.
Hard Where?
New year, new PC upgrade.
New Phone, Who Dis
Upgrade time. Not the best time for it, either.
2020
Supertoys Last All Winter Long, One Hopes
My newly uncrated Dell notebook, and my general unease about anything brand spanking new.
Faster Typewriters
I never want to make the argument that we should refrain from making things easier as some kind of hedge against mediocrity.
The New Toy
A new notebook computer enters my hands, and once again I'm boggled by progress.
From The Bunker
Like most of you, I'm "sheltering in place" -- which is actually not all that different from what I already do. The difference is that now I don't have a choice.
2019
When The Gears Mesh, And When The Lightbulb Goes On
When tech works it's a wonderful thing. The rest of the time... (Self-written blog software edition.)
Blog On
Toying with Pelican, Nikola, and other static site generators.
2018
Mop And Pail, Dustpan And Broom
How PCs become trash accumulators that rival any closet, garage, crawlspace, or basement.
Pounded To Death
I go through keyboards the way other people go through pencils.
Ray And The Great Unpluggening
How Ray Bradbury saw a cellphone-addicted future. No, not in that book about book-burning.
No Humans Allowed
Once again: Whatever it is we're designing our world for, it isn't the human being.
Nobloggy But Me
Blogging never "died"; it's just become harder to see. But it's as crucial as ever.
The Problem With The Rat Race Is That Even If You Win, You're Still A Rat
On media both social and antisocial.
Philosophizing With A Megaphone
On Twitter as a case study in technical non-solutions to social problems.
The Mashup Men
On making something new from a whole lot of somethings old.
Breakin'
These past couple of days have been a cavalcade of non-stop technical and mechanical failure.
2017
TV Or Not TV
More on the de-boob-tubing of my life.
