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Whenever I change blogging platforms or domain names or simply post to several places, I feel a twinge of guilt. How will my "audience" feel about the changes? Does it confuse
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The new Saxon album is really good.
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⚠️ This blog is no longer running Kirby, but I left this here just in case.
I've recently whittled my servers at DigitalOcean down to a single 2GB instance running Caddy. When
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As much as I love Tinderbox, I'm wondering if it will continue to make sense long-term as a blogging engine. I get along great with most of Tinderbox's features,
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I’ve settled on WordPress for this blog. (“settled” is a fluid word for me, but let’s assume I mean it for now). However, I prefer to do most of my writing
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One valid criticism of using paper for notes is that searching through notebooks is rather difficult. With my poor handwriting, scanning for certain information in a wash of squiggly lines can be painfully
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I keep this blog around so that I have somewhere to post images and maybe a little background as well as the ever-popular gearhead nonsense. So why do I so rarely post anything?
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My dad (right) stands in front of bar while in the Navy. (France 1963)
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As an antidote for my usual spiral of sitting at a giant screen full of a dozen windows, staring, clicking, staring, clicking, etc. I thought I’d try living on my iPad for
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Riccardo Mori has a few comments on the beta of Safari 15 showed up. Here’s one:
In other words, what a browser needs is horizontal breathing room, instead we have Apple doing
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Yesterday I was asked something about a project I’d worked on two years ago. At that time I’d used
Curio to help manage the project. I opened the Curio project and
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Unless I’m doing some crazy non-standard layout, I’m not a fan of using WordPress’ Gutenberg editor. Mostly I just want to type some simple text and add a link or two.
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I'm almost certainly using Zotero wrong.
Instead of for citations and research, I'm using Zotero as a bookmarking tool and read-later service, and it's working really well.
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It’s been a while since I bought a new fountain pen. This is about the Pilot Custom 823.
Literally every review I’ve read says the same things: “It’s not a
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The more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered; and the easier repaired when disordered
Thomas Paine
I would be wise to keep this in mind.
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I brought the Q2 Monochrom with me to the party. Shot about 20 images. This is the only one I kept.
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I see office vs remote is very much on the menu (thanks media for using your platform to ruin our day ????)
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My feelings about remote work are evolving, and I&
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