So you want to join Mastodon…
I joined the social media site Mastodon three years ago this month, having heard about it as an alternative to Facebook and Twitter, which I’d been growin...
Category: tech
Check out this app
I’m not one to get too stoked about apps — or at least not generally enough to hype them — but I gotta give credit where it’s due. Swipe...
The best “What if…?” invites you play along
As a writer, my mind is turning out endless “What if…?” scenarios (at times not a good thing, as I’ve explained). And of course artists ...
My ongoing interest in digital privacy
I’ve talked before about digital privacy — among other places, here and here and don’t forget here — but after making some choices then ...
Update that will shock no one: Tech still hates me
For the love of god. I got in touch with Apple support via chat late this morning to ask what I thought was a simple issue that I was getting run around about w...
A razor’s edge from chaos
As I write this, there are digital outages across the country affecting millions of people and a ton of businesses, because Rogers, one of the big three telecom...
Interactive story first draft: Done!
For anyone who doesn’t get my newsletter… I mean, first off, why not? Geez… but secondly and more to the point, I’m looking for work, an...
Android Guy becomes iPhone Guy
The deal, as they say, is done. After having no end of frustrations big and small with my Pixel 5, a couple of weeks back I finally jumped ship completely over ...
A call to focus
Years prior to the pandemic, I had noticed a trend that was slowly but clearly getting worse, and it has ramped up even harder through these Covid years: People...