Email is your electronic memory
From the FastMail Blog: Yesterday, Google announced that Gmail will use AMP to make emails dynamic, up-to-date and actionable. At first that sounds like a great idea. Last week’s news is stale. Last …
Read MoreI started blogging on February 2000, on a different domain and in a nacent phase of my life. I have an archive of my early posts, and I hope to begin adding them in here (I have a plain text export of my original Movable Type blog entries (nearly 1,000 entries!), so it will take a bit of time to move them to Markdown/Hugo.)
Eras of my blog:
- 2022 - Now - Corporate life ( 39 posts ~ 0.74 posts/month )
- 2020 - 2022 - Independence ( 26 posts ~ 0.72 posts/month )
- 2014 - 2020 - Agency life ( 60 posts ~ 0.71 posts/month )
- 2011 - 2014 - Dark days of unemployment ( 0 posts ~ 0.00 posts/month )
- 2009 - 2011 - Professional peak ( 0 posts ~ 0.00 posts/month )
- 2003 - 2008 - First job, marriage, and early career ( 6 posts ~ 0.08 posts/month )
- 2000 - 2003 - College ( 10 posts ~ 0.21 posts/month )
Total posts since 2000: 117 posts ~ 0.37 posts/month
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Branded in Memory: NFL Edition
This was really interesting: Considering how important the NFL and its teams are to millions of people, we asked over 150 people to draw 12 of the most popular team logos from memory. With nothing to …
Read MoreThis restaurant in Spain hasn't closed its doors since 1725
This place is old: Via BoingBoing: Botin Restaurant in Madrid has been in operation for 293 years, a world record. The owners claim the oven hasn’t once gone out. The house specialty is roast …
Read MoreApple Backs AV1: What Does This Mean for the Future of Video Codecs
Apple Backs AV1: What Does This Mean for the Future of Video Codecs: Earlier this month, Apple joined the Alliance for Open Media (AOM), which is working on the next-generation AV1 video compression …
Read MoreThanks for the memories, Chico’s
Columbia Basin Herald:: The news that Chico’s Pizza Parlor was destroyed in a weekend fire hit many hard. The Moses Lake community and former residents showed their concern online with a flood of …
Read MoreEdgar Martinez narrowly misses Hall of Fame induction; has one year left on ballot - Lookout Landing
Lookout Landing: Edgar received 70.4% percent of the vote, leaving him under 5%—19 votes—short of the votes needed for induction. Super disappointing, but all signs look good for next year, his last …
Read MoreEdgar Martinez’s Hall of Fame chances? Too close to call
From The Seattle Times: Every attempt to crunch the numbers based on revealed ballots and past voting trends has revealed one fundamental truth: It’s going to be excruciatingly close for Edgar, one …
Read MoreSite Transition
I think I change my website CMS as frequently as I do my keyboards… Anyway, this site is now running on WordPress. It’s still in an Azure-hosted VM, but now I’m just another WP …
Read MoreAnd then there were two...
Windows Central reporting: Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President for Windows, Joe Belfiore, has today clarified the company’s stance with Windows 10 Mobile and what it’s currently …
Read MoreOld Mail
Ernie Smith has a great history of Eudora, one of the most important computer applications of the 1990s. In early 1997, two applications were in the process of taking over the internet, and both had …
Read MoreDear Angry GOP Donors
In Politico today: With the GOP’s agenda at a virtual standstill on Capitol Hill, the party is contending with a hard reality. Some of the party’s most elite and influential donors, who spent …
Read MoreTim Cook Gets It
From his recent commencement address to the MIT Class of 2017: Technology is capable of doing great things. But it doesn’t want to do great things. It doesn’t want anything. That part takes all of us. …
Read MoreA Review of the 2016 MacBook Pro 15”
Forward I started drafting this review a few weeks prior to the 2017 updates to the MacBook Pro line. Those updates (Kaby Lake, speed-bumped AMD graphics) are negligible improvements, so I’m not too …
Read MoreFloppy Longevity
This week, I received a package in the mail. From my mother. Inside was a treasure: A bunch of my 3.5 inch floppy disks! All of these are at least 20 years old, so I was pretty curious if any of them …
Read MoreBe Good
Great song, but maybe the rare case where the video is even better: Gregory Porter is so good.
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