Technology
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Headless Minnie
I have not had full access to my file server inside the MacBook Mini (aka Minnie) since I packed it up for her relocation to Florida. After running an update and backed everything up from my MacBook M1 to Minnie, it was time to find…
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Research On Searching
Over the previous years, online search engines have become overwhelmed with advertisements and results that may somewhat be relative to the original query you typed into the search field- it is maddening. Even Boolean searches with tools such as “and” “or” “not”, plus signs, minus…
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A Look Back
Once again, I find myself working behind the scenes of this website. This time, I am organizing the backend, the stuff that no one else sees. I am also wrapping up the migration of writings from my previous sites into here for posterity. Such as…
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Back In Time
With the help of the Internet Archives and their Wayback Machine, I am slowly cutting/pasting/posting some of this website’s missing articles that somehow did not migrate and log. The Machine only takes snapshots and not the full site, so I’m positive there are a lot…
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Offline
It has been a full month since I told my phone carrier I want to remove the data package from my mobile plan. The monthly bill for just talk and text is $20 monthly. To prepare myself for this, I ripped a lot of music…
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Three P’s
For digital documents you want to keep for a long time, I suggest the Three P’s: While in college in the mid 1990’s, and prior to purchasing my first computer, I utilized a word processor. Think manual typewriter but with a 3.5″ floppy disk for…
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iOS 18
The beta version of the newest iPhone operating system has been installed on the iPhone 15 Pro Max. There is a lot of new features to unpack but for now, the custom icon tinting is my favorite. I love a uniform screen.
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USB ♣️
Two weeks after receiving my specialized USB Stick, I am finally in the club. Now I can share files with others and pick/choose what files I would like. File formats include pdf, jpg, mov, etc. Here’s a look at the console below. Once I have…
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HTML
I am in a mood again. Thinking about keeping this website online as a private online archive while at the same time, writing to the journal inside my own offline database. If I do take this private, it’ll be a stripped down HTML-only version. Stay…
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The Matrix Has You
It is 2024 and the Matrix is real. Of this there can be zero doubt, if you consider your daily screen time. The digital avatar of you online versus your physical meat space in the real world. Are you intellectually honest with yourself? Can you…
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Data-less
I pulled the trigger on my decision to remove the data plan from the iPhone. By next week it will be just talk and text.
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Retro Denbow
As part of my mission this year to “de-bullshit” my life, I’ve been contemplating acquiring a dumb phone and with luck, my carrier has exactly one model. It’s features are the ability to talk, text and take crap-quality images and that’s it. The carrier representative…