June 17, 2025 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…
June 13, 2025 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…
June 10, 2025 Video piracy is on the rise again I recently checked out this article that was linked from Mastodon (my sole social media presence) and it’s a pretty quick read, if you’re…
February 25, 2025 4200? Time for a reality check I’ve changed email service providers. It’s for reasons I won’t bother getting into here, and I didn’t do it lightly, but it was something…
January 19, 2025 A one-two punch of disappointment This wasn’t a good week for fans of Neil Gaiman or Protonmail. First and way more importantly, Neil Gaiman, for decades my favourite writer,…
November 30, 2024 In praise of audiobooks While I’ve written previously about bumps in the road to enjoying audiobooks and my take on that score hasn’t changed, I have to say,…
August 30, 2024 Ain’t no party like a beige.party party When I first joined Mastodon in 2019, it was via a server — an instance, as it’s called — named mastodon.social. In part, joining…
August 14, 2024 The trickiness of effective email addresses I have a weird name. For those outside my family and group of friends who haven’t known me forever, the first one is pronounced…
April 11, 2024 Need even more reason to leave all Meta platforms for good? Here you go. Hey, you know how Facebook (now called Meta) makes a fourtune from selling oceans of highly detailed, extremely personal data about each of its…
March 14, 2024 … aaaaand we’re back! It’s been… let’s call it an interesting few weeks. Back in mid-February, we were visiting friends in Florida. The day after we arrived, I…