Road weary and introspective
As everyone ran to export and delete their Twitter data in waves when Apartheid Clyde came to town, I sat back and watched with a chuckle from my cozy perch on my Mastodon instance. You see, I’d already done all that months ago, as the site had continued to fester into a sad pile of…
Wherein our protagonist chooses their top picks in the past year of music listening and epic album buying. Sadly, in the last few years my only blog posts have been these, the yearly lists. Even now, I’m only writing this on 31 Dec 2022, knowing full well I likely won’t publish this before midnight. But…
The following is an article I wrote for my company’s R&D newsletter, and the perspective is angled to that reader. I was asked one day “is accessibility still a selling point?” I blinked. I’d never considered that ensuring our customers can use our product was a selling point; it’s just what they expect when they…
Wherein our author talks about unsuccessfully blogging and rekindling excitement in dark times.
My history with my hometown of Salt Lake City is storied and less than rosy. I won’t bore you with that right now, but when I left—for a second time—even my mother, who clings to hope of the return to anything and everything in past tense, felt it was appropriate and fitting that I leave…
So by now, everyone has heard of the iPhone 3GS. Yippee. Looks snazzy and has upgraded features. Since I’m still on my original spec iPhone (well, 16GB EDGE iPhone to be exact), it’ll most likely be my next phone upgrade. In fact, a lot of people want to upgrade to the 3GS. But there is…
A good friend of mine in California sent a group message via Facebook regarding today’s ruling on Proposition 8, the banning of same-sex marriage in that state. I just wanted to share a few thoughts on commitment to a person, and why we should not hinder its existence. While we here in WA don’t have…
Some of you who’ve read anything I’ve written online—in a non-work-related context—have noticed my propensity toward spelling in a manner alien to American English palettes. I’ll get notes and tweets from people saying I used a U when spelling colour, or that a word is not spelled with an S–it’s a Z, damn you! Today,…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sfQ5lBa9Nw&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00] This is one major reason I work where I work. I hope my contributions to the site are helping fulfill that vision.
I guess the real question is this: What were you doing when you heard that Barack Obama was elected to become the 44th president of the United States? Here’s what Sabrina and I were doing: We went to Kidd Valley for a quick cheeseburger. We’d been following the results trickle in via the web for…
