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  • 10 Pointless facts about me

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    So all the cool kids are doing this blogging challenge, and I don’t want to be left out: Do you floss your teeth?Yes. Probably more often than I brush them. Tea, coffee, or water?Not…tea. You know there is water in coffee and tea, right? Footwear preference?Boots for boot stuff. Sneakers for sneaker stuff. Wool socks…

  • Is recording your life really that weird?

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    I mean audio recording. Like, when you’re playing a family game or walking a trail – having an audio recorder going. Or the chat you have with your kids in the car. Yes, I record those things. Not every time, but as often as I can manage. I’m known to have a recorder sitting out…

  • LinkedIn Pro-tip – choosing which ads & spam to see

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    A common complaint about LinkedIn is that it’s just full of ads and spam that is completely irrelevant. Ads for resume-writing services, spammy self-congratulatory posts about how the author did some amazing feat in an industry or field you couldn’t are less about. You know the deal. But you don’t have to keep suffering! There…

  • Detoxify toxic inspiration

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    You have seen the post I’m talking about. It’s always a command that sounds so simple and valuable, but if you actually think about it, completely undoable. Surround yourself with people who fight for you in rooms your not in Sure. I’ll get right on that. A quick search for “Lexington KY”+people+(fight|advocate)+”for me|Steve”+”In rooms I’m…

  • First thoughts – Sony ICD-UX570 Voice Recorder

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    I was going to buy the PCM-A10, but this popped up and it was less than half the money. So I checked on Soundcloud to see if there were any recordings. There were a few, and, frankly, they sounded pretty good for what this unit is. $80, has a built-in battery and a slide-out USB…

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    Which is good because your eyes will be watering from the cost of buying those pistachios!

  • Proof that AI is bunk: Nav is still so stupid

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    AI is supposed to revolutionize everything, but I call BS. AI is 90% smoke, mirrors, and promises that will remain unfulfilled. Given a choice between fulfilling a past promise and making a new one, tech companies will generally choose the latter. Let’s look at an application that should benefit from AI and showcase AI’s potential…

  • WordPress, Mastodon, ActivityPub….workflow?

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    Short version: How do I set all this up so I have my blog and one Mastodon account that I can use in Mastodon apps like a normal user but the content I create (either posts or replies) goes out via my blog? With hashtags. Long version: How is the whole WordPress/Mastodon/ActivityPub thing supposed to…

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    When you consider how difficult many business suppression units IT departments are to work with, maybe they don’t even need to steal data. Just slow things down and gum up the works.

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    Happiness is a new bidet and a clean backside. A new Toto Washlet. Reasonable cost, easy to install, and just like the toilets I experienced in Japan. The other night I turned to my wife after telling Siri to turn off lights, and said “Remember when we had to get up to turn off lights?”…