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Tag: Technology

Denbow’s Library of Babel

The Library of Babel is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges. The story is about an infinite library that contains every possible book composed of a limited set of 25 characters. The library is an endless series of hexagonal…

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Everything Old Is New Again

Every now and then I ask myself why I would put so much time and effort into maintaining this website and keeping it online. I make no money from it, in fact, it does cost money to have my own…

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Footnote Theme 1.3.0 Is Live

I have redesigned the website again. Anyone who has been here for a while probably saw that coming. This time I am using new-to-me programming languages and newer frameworks to make the website load and react faster. Including more mobile…

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Website Redesign

I toggle settings, void warranties and go through website redesigns more than I change my underwear sometimes. I can never leave well enough alone because...it is Neve well enough for me. I'm adding new technologies and programming languages this time…

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Working Title For Work In Progress

Because I rarely finish what I start when it comes to these things, here is an image of a companion website to a book that is in it's planning stages. No working title, just a rough outline. This website design…

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Agentic AI

Today I am tasking ChatGPT Agents to sort, organize my Documents folder in the MacBook as a test, then report findings before executing any changes. This is called Agentic AI. Agentic AI is a type of artificial intelligence that can…

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Lightroom. Again.

I know what you are thinking, and you're right. I've oscillated on using Adobe for years. Back and forth On/Off. Shut up. For years, I kept trying to get away from Adobe. The subscription annoyed me. Creative Cloud annoyed me.…

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iReader

My Kindle Paperwhite e-reader didn’t die. The hardware still worked. What failed was Amazon’s willingness to support it. When I discovered that my perfectly functional Kindle had reached the end of Amazon’s support, the solution offered to me was predictable:…

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Two New Cases

While strolling around various towns this Labor Day weekend I was thinking I needed a better setup for the iPhone. After research I came across a master grip system that attaches to the phone using MagSafe attachments. The system comes…

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The Clean Slate Protocol

I have a problem, and it lives on four different hard drives. For years my system for "backing up" has basically been: buy a new external drive when the old one fills up, dump a bunch of stuff on it,…

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Downsizing

What set me off recently was a notification from Apple stating my Apple One subscription is going up again. This makes the third time in a year I think. For me it would be an extra $24 a year, which…

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28GB

I've calculated the disk storage space for all of my physical media including e-books, CDs and video discs. 28 gigabytes on one device is seriously impressive, but what else would I surround myself with?

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Philosophical Intelligence

Anyone wishing to explore artificial intelligence first needs to study philosophy. Eastern works such as Tau, western works such as the meditations of Marcus Aurelius, the Bible, and other modern day thinkers. To understand and explore artificial intelligence, we have…

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Wallpaper Downloads

I've had the opportunity to make a few backgrounds for the iDevices and wanted to share them at no cost if you are interested. Good for any device. Just click here to download and save to your screens. Let me…

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Authentic Intelligence

I’d like to put it out there to the World Wide Web right now- if I ever use artificial intelligence to write this website for me, I'll shut it down first. But, until the damn thing grows arms, breasts and…

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