Writer, Dabbler In Things
It occurred to me that I’ve recently made a few changes that were explicitly, albeit perhaps uncharacteristically, for my own good. I hunted down a couple of meditation apps to help remind me to take some time out to just sit for a bit and be still. Not still like I can be when I’m … Read more
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 growing leery of by that point. You can just look here for a breakdown of what Mastodon is, but in brief: A couple of years back I took a … Read more
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. Swipewipe had recently been getting a strange amount of (unpaid) promotion from completely unrelated newsletters I get, and it sounded like it had some promise, so I … Read more
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 of all other stripes can play the same game. It’s fun for me to see how they do that; not just their thinking process for merging ideas to come up … Read more
I’ve talked before about digital privacy — among other places, here and here and don’t forget here — but after making some choices then to help myself (and the ongoing effort to help my family) get some of that, I find myself coming around to revisit it again. A bit of a freshening up, as … Read more
Wikipedia was established in 2001, the idea being to make an online encyclopedia that anyone could add to and edit as needed to correct. It made sense, in theory: No one is an expert on everything, but there are experts in everything — or even just people who could offer insightful knowledge on any subject … Read more
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 with online searches: How to link my iPhone calendar and my wife’s so we could each see appointments the other had made. … Read more
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 companies in Canada, is down. This means not just that people who have Rogers as a cell phone carrier can’t get online or make calls or send … Read more
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, and one of the opportunities that came up was a scriptwriter for an upcoming Star Wars game from powerhouse game developer Ubisoft. One of the suggested items to have in … Read more
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 to Apple. I sold the (very quickly devaluing) Pixel 5, paired that with less cash than I’d expected, and got a used iPhone 11 … Read more