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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This has been one of those low level thoughts that bobs up from the neural surface (the Little Limited Machine in my skull). The bemoaning of web search devolving from the list of ranked blue links to something that zeroes on on what some machine language thing suggest. And what gets portrayed in the Everything […]
