I wrote The Last Gasp of Trust a few days ago. I just updated that article to include a section titled, "(Dis)Trust and Verify". I needed a term to describe web content that had the quality of being actually generated by human …
read moreI spent a brief stint as a website content writer in the early 10's. It was for several of the thousands of click-through sites designed both to be helpful and to …
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Rush 2112 album cover.
We all watch the world evolving from one where individuality and self-reliance was highly valued to one where social saturation and centralized everything is the norm. If knowledge is power (it is), then more and more power is concentrated …
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A rose by any other name might be called a weed.
We have a very natural Northwest Florida yard. That would be pretty much the opposite of a manicured yard. My basic philosophy is, if it is green and will grow in this sand, I'm not killing it. There are …
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A well-lived life looks a bit like this twisty road.
What if you lived your whole life, and at the end, when asked how you spent your allotment of time you realized you really had nothing to say.
You woke up every day and did what everyone expected of you …
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Bored. So bored. So very bored.
It was the 1980's and the sky was the limit. The Internet was going to change the world . . . and it did. We were excited by all the possibilities, like a child on December 20th looking toward …
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Image: Inspiringly beautiful, and yet deadly.
A Frenchman shares my thoughts. Maybe my thoughts are not so strange after all.
I stumbled upon a documentary on Amazon Prime the other night. Legacy. Narrated by …
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Image: One long row of boring.
It seems to me we are very interested in divorcing the physical world and marrying instead a sanitized, dead image of it.
It must be the fate of old men to decry the progress of younger generations as loss …
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I just burned up two whole days trying to solve a problem caused by an invisible non-entity.
It was a space. Well, two spaces to be precise, one at the end of each account password.
We recently …
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Image: The MPD logo. Basic. To the point. Just like MPD.
I really stressed over titling this article this way. "Awesome" has become another perfectly useful term to find itself tossed into the refuse pile of formerly 'cool' terms. That's so sad.
Awesome is one of the best words I …
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Image: These people really do exist.
No matter to what lengths you go, you simply cannot be connected to the Internet without exposing yourself to bad actors out there who want as much data …
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Last night I finished converting all the content from my old WordPress Dr.Gerg site into markdown.
Another reason I'm happy is after literally decades of contemplation and half-hearted attempts, I finally made headway into IRC. That may not seem like much to most of you …
read moreApprehensive. A past-participle of apprehend. (A participle is verb that can do the work of an adjective, like 'baked' in "baked beans".)
Apprehend comes from the Latin word apprehendere meaning, "take hold of, grasp" In essence, when you've taken hold of something mentally, or if it …
read moreThere. I said it. Somebody needs to say it.
Come on, people, this isn't rocket science. It's just simple math.
You want to know what the human population of the planet was in 1950? Go look it up. Compare that to the current human population. If you …
read moreI am compelled to talk about my lack of social-ness here in a virtual diary that is a common tool of social media.
I tried to listen to a podcast the other day. It's not the first time, just the latest of …
read moreWould that be a good thing? As you might surmise, the answer is not clear cut.
IPFS: the InterPlanetary File System is intended to replace HTTPS and de-centralize the content delivery process …
read moreIt's the middle of January, 2021. You know what that means, don't you. We're waiting to see what is going to happen. If you're like me, you feel a bit of trepidation about the future. You may be feeling a bit vulnerable. A bit unsettled. A touch afraid.
We watch …
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