MacBook Air and WWDC
Here’s one more post on my new MacBook Air and other Apple-related thoughts. When the old MacBook went south, I was initially considering dropping macOS entirely, just getting a new […]
Library book sale
My local library is having a book sale soon, so I’m spending some time this morning gathering up some dusty old paperbacks to get rid of. This turned into more […]
sorting photos with Python
As part of my MacBook replacement project, I wanted to get a good new backup of my photo library. Photos.app stores photos in a database, not individual files, so if […]
MacBook Air migration
I’m just about done setting up my new MacBook Air. I hit a few bumps, but I think everything has worked out in the end. My initial plan was to […]
new MacBook Air
I have now officially given up on my old MacBook Pro and bought a MacBook Air. I’m not entirely happy about this, but it seemed like the path of least […]
probably giving up on my MacBook
I think I’ve gone from worried about my MacBook to “almost ready to consign it to the scrap heap.” I’m pretty sure the hard drive cable has gone bad again, […]
Worried about my MacBook
My MacBook has done a fair bit of random crashing today. I’ve had it since 2013, and I’ve had problems with it before, so it wouldn’t be surprising if something […]
Happy birthday Pat
Today would have been my brother Patrick’s 45th birthday. I’ve written a quick birthday post about him here almost every year, usually with a photo. This year’s photo is a […]
Learning Statistics
I’m starting to read a book on statistics, and this is from the beginning of the chapter on probability: If you are reading this book as part of a course […]
Day One outage
It might be time to stop using Day One. I last blogged about Day One in 2016, when they had released a new version and switched to their own proprietary […]