Even without the handwritten year, photos along can clearly indicate an era. Today marks the day eight years ago that my grandmother passed away; last year I edited a video made from audio I recorded in 1994 and some scanned photos. She was born in 1905, so in this photo of her lounging in Florida, […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by red5standingby A recent interest timesuck addiction um,, interest has been playing Words With Friends… with friends. I’ve been on a lucky streak, and have beaten a few people who are smarter and more educated (people who actually use words like “epistemology” in regular conversation. But its really not about […]
Apparently the new rules of the road for email “marketing” (the quotes are not strictly necessary, but I don’t care) is that the people who spit it out can opt you in w/o asking as long as they let you opt out. I appreciate the opt out, but I don’t appreciate having to process crap […]
Did someone say beta? That really gets my attention when I see it, I just cannot resist a click of curiosity. I don’t know how long this has been on delicious.com, but I am ecstatic to see that the venerable social bookmarking site is still tinkering under the hood. So from what I see, this […]
I’m going to take a wide turn around the iPad vapor huff; whether or not it is the Game Changer that Will Herald Trumpets of Change or it is The Death Knell of Freedom as We Know It. I have one and like using it. That’s my stand. Yet, the process of moving content on […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by bobtravis That’s me, second from the right. As a kid, I heard a lot of things cast my way (even from my folks) about being a “Smart Aleck” cause I had a snappy, saracastic answer to anything They never defined it, there was no google, so I just had […]
Harrumph to people who gave up on RSS readers and really are deluded that they can get all their news via twitter; its now my secret weapon of discovery. It was there I found in my techie feeds a story that my bank (Chase) has added the capability to their iPhone app to deposit checks. […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog First image made with the iPhone app Diptic (http://www.dipticapp.com/) to create multipane images from phone photos. I grabbed two of my own photos from flickr and upped them to my phone. The side images are from the same photo, just displaced to make for a framing effect Originals […]
modified from cc licensed flickr photo shared by Lord Jim I’m looking for someone, some group to take over the development for Feed2JS; I’ve taken it as far as I can possibly can. It gets used a lot, more than I think I want to know. The server empties its cache nightly, but I just […]
Notes from the blog crypt.. This post has been lingering in the drafts area for a while; it reminds me of one of those mystery containers of Unidentified Food Substances in the back of me fridge. I keep thinking I had thrown it out, and every time I rummage around, I look at it and […]
