Goodbye, Instacast
I found out today that my podcast app of choice, Instacast, has been discontinued. It still works, for now, but I guess I should find a new app to use. […]
August 2015
AD&D gold box games
I was happy to discover that some of the old AD&D gold box games are now available at GOG.com. I’ve played through all of the AD&D gold box games, except […]
reading digital comics
This morning, I decided that I’d like to read the Dresden Files comic series that I bought as part of a Humble Bundle last year. I’m using Comic Zeal on […]
iOS Audiobook players
I don’t listen to a lot of audiobooks, but I listen to enough of them that I want to have a good audiobook player on my phone. On iOS, the […]
Amazon confusion
There has been much already written in reaction to the big article about Amazon that ran in the NY Times over the weekend. I’ll admit that the article really bothered […]
Philadelphia Museum of Art
I went to the Philadelphia Museum of Art today for, I think, the first time. I don’t get into Philly nearly as often as I go into New York, largely […]
a little more griping about Windows 10
My VS 2013 update did finish installing, eventually, and now VS seems to be working fine. No clue what went wrong there. (Or maybe that’s just how long this update […]
Visual Studio 2013 update 5
After upgrading my laptop to Windows 10, I thought about maybe taking a shot at installing Visual Studio 2015. I may do that eventually, but I don’t have any reason […]
Windows 10 upgrade – ThinkPad
I upgraded my ThinkPad to Windows 10 yesterday. It was a pretty uneventful upgrade. All of my software seems to work, including some stuff that I thought might be dicey, […]
Happy Birthday
Today is my Dad’s birthday, and also our friend Gloria’s birthday — her 80th. She had a little party yesterday, and I got a good photo of the two of […]