TidBITS redesign
I’ve been reading the TidBITS newsletter for years. They’ve been publishing it for 28 years; I’ve been subscribing to it for more than ten. (I’m not sure how long exactly, […]
internet
Digg Reader and other thoughts on RSS and news consumption
I learned today that Digg Reader just shut down. I had set up an account there when they started it up, but wasn’t actively using it. I also have an […]
Home phone service (for old people)
Last summer, I got a notice that Verizon was going to retire the copper phone lines in my town. And, via my landlord, I’ve been told that our building apparently […]
Good Old Email
I’m a big fan of email. Say what you will, it’s still pretty darn useful. There was news this week about Google wanting to use AMP with email. I ignored […]
John Perry Barlow, RIP
According to a post on the EFF website, John Perry Barlow has just passed away. I have to admit that I didn’t really know much about him personally, but I […]
FastMail migration follow-up
I started switching from Gmail to FastMail back in May of last year. I’ve been using FastMail as my main personal email account now for about six months, and it’s […]
New SSL certificate
This blog should now have a new, slightly less fancy, SSL certificate. I had been using a $49/year certificate from 1&1, my hosting provider. It was issued via GeoTrust, and […]
Net Neutrality
I put a little net neutrality widget from Battle For The Net on my site this morning. I’m not going to leave it up for long, since it’s kind of […]
untangling 9000 cables
I’ve been spending some time recently working through a backlog of unread bookmarks on my Pinboard account. I don’t think I ever intended to use Pinboard as a place to […]
more cable TV and internet shenanigans
I got a phone call from my cable company recently; the person who called started rattling out a prepared script about some good news: they were upgrading my internet speed. […]