Reading Hacks
RSS, or, Really Simple Syndication, is having a comeback moment for many people. I’ve used this invaluable web tool since 2005 to hack my reading workflow and highly suggest others pick this up. It’s a web feed that allows users…
THE WRITTEN RECORD
Tag: Technology
Autodiadactism
That reads as impressive, no? All that to say, I enjoy reading, studying and figuring things out on my own, for my own enrichment. Over the years I am slowly fine-tuning the process. I have built my own personal knowledge…
Cropping My Photo Gear
Just how good is the iPhone as a camera? Good enough for someone like me, a photographer for over three decades, want to sell off almost all of his gear. It is that good. I just sold off the mirrorless…
Rage Against The Machine
My personal printing at home history has always followed the same patterns: This planned obsolescence is maddening for almost everyone who owns one of these damned things. It isn't one brand, it is the market and no one is willing…
Digital vs Analog
02-25-2023 Analog vs Digital I observed my Royal Scrittore typewriter collecting dust this morn g moring and thought I would give it a go. Two sentences in and my fingers hurt. Compare this tothe keyboard on my MacBook Pro where…
Mylio Photo Organizer
How the hell did this software program help organize thirty years of my photography archives in under an hour? Download, install and sign up for the 30-day free trial. And we're off! I plugged in my 10TB external hard drive…
Hacking A Reading Workflow
You could say I enjoy reading. But what good is all of that time spent if I do not retain that input? I need a system for transforming reading into meaningful action and lasting insight. Other people would call this…
Hor
There is a running joke in my family that I consume too many Apple devices every year. Well the joke is on me because I did it again. I upgraded to the Apple Watch Ultra. Horology is the study of…
Don’t Call It A Podcast
If podcast creators charge a subscription fee and hide their content behind a paywall without an RSS feed, it is no longer a podcast. It becomes an audio book instead. More later.
The Internet Is Broken
This was first posted on my website back on May 31, 2022, and I've added some new thoughts. Anyone else noticed that today’s WWW is insufferable? I don’t specifically know when it turned, or why most users became jerks, but…
Do Androids Dream Of Creating Electric Sheep?
All my life, we've been told that computers were incapable of being intelligent, self-aware and creative. But here we are in 2023 partnering with Artifical Intelligence in creating works of art with photographs, paintings, music composing and even creative writing.…
The Audio Mojo Podcast
Not sure how long this will last but I'll give it a go. The idea is to change up text blogging for audio posts. Update The Audio Mojo podcast is now available to stream on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. If…
Flickr
Yes, I have re-upped my Flickr subscription. Time to fill up on that unlimited photos now.
Ghosted
I have had a need to simplify my websites and the expenses that come with them. That changed today. A year ago I transferred this website to a self-hosted instance instead, for simplicity and ease of use but I gave…
ARTifical
I toyed around with DALL-E today and asked for a random but specific depiction of “a dark background oil painting of an intelligent looking fox smoking his tobacco pipe while working on his MacBook” And here are the results. I…