Technology I've Lost The Way I can’t tell you how many times in the past ten years that there was a desire to build and maintain a map as a photo gallery of places I have been and things I have seen in all of my travels. No, it’s more than one map.
Micro Finally. Pt 2 It's only been two weeks since I ordered the Ricoh GR camera then I finally get this notification:
Micro Finally. The Quiet Room (Book 2 in Rabbits series) by Terry Miles 2024-02-07 to 2024-03-10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Micro Polaroid When you see two packs of expensive Polaroid film discounted, you pick them up every time. 2 for $12 instead of $36? Yep.
Micro Almost There I have successfully switched my Apple ID to the current email address, signed out of most of my devices from old ID and logged in properly. There are some residual issues with the old ID on some devices that I need to sort out soon but not now.
Micro Microblogging Microblogging is a combination of blogging and instant messaging that allows users to create short messages to be posted and shared with an audience online. Social platforms like X (formerly Twitter) have become extremely popular forms of this type of blogging. These short messages can come in a variety of
Micro Apple ID I am about to merge, consolidate and liquidate older IDs in favor of a new, more permanent Apple ID. I've made a mess of things these past few months. I hope for minimal damage and quick recovery process if it does happen.
Epigraph Giving Up "Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times." - Mark Twain
Photography Gunboat Park Neon A few more neon signs went up along Route 66 in Tulsa that I meant to capture before work travels and had forgotten. I was reminded by a recent drive-by and had to stop of course. Click here to find more neon on the photography website.
Journal TinkerFutzNPutz Over the past few weeks, I have retired the silver fox website and migrated everything over from the last 23(!) years to an Archived website for posterity. I purchased a new domain name (chrisdenbow.website) that matches my own because I had allowed someone else to snatch up the old
Technology Five Years Later After decades using Windows and Linux operating systems, I had had enough with both of them. In 2019 I decided to go all in on the Apple ecosystem and purchased a used MacBook Air from 2015. In 2021, I decided it was time for an upgrade to the MacBook Pro
Epigraph On Civilization Read it and weep. "Formerly the fewest men wrote books that were most valuable. Now anybody writes and prints anything he likes and poisons people’s minds. It has been stated that, as men progress, they shall be able to travel in airships and reach any part of the
Micro Night + Day I geeked out just now watching my website switch from night mode to day mode automatically according to when the sun is scheduled to rise. Thanks to my Open Weather api script.
Micro Well, That's Sorted While going through all of my files, I discovered they were all scattered across multiple hard drives, backed up multiple times. A mess. I decided to make a master file and import all data into it. Then I started to weed out all the quadruplicates. Now the master archive is
Reading Too Much Input My appetite for well-written novels and articles in genres and on topics that I’m interested in, and the availability of all of those, are more than the time I have to read it. I am already staring up at the tower of books now. Regarding Reading1. I will make
Journal DVD Archives A long time ago I created a website for my daughter to document her growth. Over time, though, it was neglected and shelved. I came across an .xml file containing a few posts but not all of them so I built a new website archive, added some images from the
Epigraph Obsession “Lastly, if there’s anything I can convince you of: you should build a personal site, you should obsess over it, you should meticulously document it, and you should have quite a bit of fun doing so. (It’s worth it.)” - Justin Duke
Technology Text Is Best While migrating old web articles I have published in/out of databases, there are standard formats that should be universal or compatible with others. The issue I am having is that when exporting old data from a .json formatted document, I run into a long string of data objects that
Journal Systems Diagnostic Check 3.3 It is March 3 (3.3) and time for a check-in to see how I am responding to my own goals for the year so far. This year it is in a language I can understand, such as considering my body, mind, and soul as a personal operating system. So,
Technology Update On iPhone Experiment I must have thought this was a good idea a year ago because I took the time to write it down and then promptly ignore it. A few days ago I wrote that this was the time to minimize my iPhone usage as an experiment for a day and...it
Website Memex A better part of the day was spent looking for .xml files that contain my old blog posts. I managed to find posts from 2006-2010 and then migrate those to another website as a semi-permanent record. 2010-2023 coming as soon as I import them into the new archive database. I
Micro Yeesh. Just going through a few back up hard drives and re-discovering some past writings. I need to sort and get them all into one place instead of scattered. Yeesh, what a nightmare I've created.
Technology Minimal iPhone Experiment Apple has built-in software into their devices that allows you to track how much usage they get during a determined period of time and it is simply called ScreenTime. I noticed my screen time using the iPhone this past week was pretty high and I wondered what can I do
Micro Issues Having multiple accounts should be nice and simple but leave it to me to complicate matters. Despite documenting all credentials and passwords, toggling back and forth has been frustrating. Yes, I blame myself, not .
Epigraph Time Machine “My camera is a Time Machine. A camera can be able to stop the world, in that we stop the world and then investigate what is there, carefully.” -Hiroshi Sugimoto