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Comment On Back to the Porch

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on October 19, 2026October 19, 2026

I have no hopes to convince anyone of my point that may or may not surface in this post, but heck this is my blog home, and here I am right! Or welcome to be told how I am wrong, Just visit, ok? So I came across this post — er newsletter thing by a […]

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She was ~Yesterday Minus 121

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on October 16, 2026October 16, 2026

There’s something about October 15, indeed, it being the “approximate” date of my grandmother’s birthday… in 1905. I have pretty much blogged this same story before so more or less a repost, but the way she tells it in her own voice is something special. The featured photo are scans of old images, on the […]

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Blogs are Big @ Baruch

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on October 15, 2026October 15, 2026

Reclaim Hosting (you know they are the best web hosts in the universe) published a new case study on the massive use of WordPress blogs at Baruch College in New York City. Big as in 10,000 sites for 60,000 users over 20 some years. I have great memories of the years I got the invitation […]

Doing It Daily, Photography

The Existential Grinth for the Ninth (month of daily photos in 2026)

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on October 5, 2026October 5, 2026

Indeed with a lack of real words to rhyme with ninth, needing to keep the patterns for this year’s posts, I resorted to a chap who just cheerfully makes stuff up to define “grinth” as “the peculiar little feeling of having noticed something nobody else did.” Clever? More importantly after last month thrashing through a […]

Memories, Reclaiming Your Web

Ironic How a Newsletter was My Early Gateway to Web Building

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on September 18, 2026September 18, 2026

I’l dial back my mockery of the email newsletter being the new definition of a web site (not here), but the Wayback Web Machine that is in my head went to remembering how a big effort/motivation the first year I set up a web server (what do I win for it being in 1993?) was […]

Doing It Daily, Photography

Getting Back in the Range After Eight and change (months of daily photos in 2026)

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on September 13, 2026September 13, 2026

The wheels sort of came off the daily photo bus, given the last report was end of April. I mean photos were taken, but somewhere I got off track catching up to the editing, titling, tagging, publishing as May, June, July, and August rolled over. The hole gets deeper the more you spend time staring […]

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60000 Vanity Points

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on September 9, 2026September 9, 2026

Hah! I had forgotten one of my blog obsessions, pursuit started in 2012 to track down and obliterate a never substantiated claim of “research showing people process visual information 60000 times faster than text.” It’s funny how I just circled back, I spotted in Mastodon a reference to Maginalia Search. An open source search engine […]

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Stop Whatever You Are Doing and Record those Family Voices

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on September 8, 2026September 8, 2026

Not that anybody is knocking on my door asking for life advice, but here it is dispensed anyhow. Do yourself a future favor, and record by any means possible the people who carry your family stories. I could not be more thankful for the voices I have digitally preserved, my grandmother, my mom. Last week […]

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Image Scoping Machines

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on September 4, 2026September 4, 2026

In the “As Much as I Loathe AI I Cannot Escape It” department, I’ve been accumulating some stray experiences with technologies that analyze, interpret information from photos, likely somewhere inside lurks what we lump as AI. And indeed, it’s useful. And interesting. Here’s a buffet of tidbit experiences and no grand conclusion. Carbs and Nutrition […]

Life, Random Musing

Class Action Coffee

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on September 2, 2026September 2, 2026

I am on a roll with an exciting new income stream – payouts from class action law suits! The cash has been flowing in and I’m rolling in settlement moohlah. Milking the legal system and then some! The Big One: Blue Cross Blue Shield Subscribers Settlement My email trail indicates I heard about this lawsuit […]

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