One (more) win for owning collections vs streaming
My family and I finally cleaned out my mother’s storage locker this past summer. She’s still living but in a long-term care facility for the foresee...
Category: tech
New year, new email service, new email address, new browser, new search engine, new computer(-ish)
Happy belated New Year to those who celebrate! 2025 proved to be a wonky one for me technologically-speaking. Here’s what I wound up dealing with as far a...
What’s in a name? A lot, actually.
As of this writing, I have five active email addresses. That I can recall. There are quite possibly more I’m not remembering at the moment.That’s a ...
Technology is great, when it works
I’m testing out a new, very well reviewed email service. The first thing I wanted to do when I signed up for it was to see if people could actually see it...
Another email service needed? Again?
Back in February, I found I couldn’t continue using my (then) current email service (let’s call it Service 1), because while it was excellent as far...
Hunt for quality, not just name brands
When I was young, my parents held the Sony brand up as one of the best technology manufacturers in the world. Those were the TVs we got when we could, those wer...
A physical entertainment possession renaissance
It seems that some high schoolers these days are starting to develop an affinity for owning physical entertainment items instead of relying exclusively on strea...
Time to Linux
A definition of planned obsolescence, per a summary from Wikipedia:“In economics and industrial design, planned obsolescence (also called built-in obsoles...
Dear job search sites…
Why do you make it so hard for people to find the one thing they’re looking for? I’m on ZipRecruiter as I write this — perhaps the best known ...
Delete everything? Never.
I read on Mastodon a couple of days back that someone I follow has deleted her longtime files of collected notes and reminders, and has experienced a huge weigh...