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I didn t think I d like Northern Ireland. It s probably because of my Irish grandmother s disdain for the British. What could the North possibly have to offer that s worth leaving the Republic? Kinbane, that s what. I took my family to Ireland for three weeks in 2024. I d been twice before — for a month in a [ ]
It was a simpler time on the internet in 2010, but early battles for corporate control were well underway. Net neutrality battles between ISPs and consumers/tech companies were raging, as were the anti-circumvention copyfights. But beyond those narrow battles, there was a broader war. Jonathon Zittrain warned of The Future of the Internet and How [ ]
I remember how the web once was – and I want it back. I want to make stuff, not hate stuff. We can have a different web, if we fight for it.
I don't need new gear to sound better. I just need to get better at using what I have. I'm using my existing gear, and getting better results.
Over the past several months, I keep coming back to this thought: The internet is a confirmation bias machine. I once believed that because the internet exposes people to new ideas, it helps us to think more carefully. I still believe it can, but the vast majority of the time, the internet paves the way [ ]
I ve never spent more than maybe $20 on a keyboard. In fact, I m not sure if I ve ever bought more than one keyboard – aside from purchasing three of the excellent Logitech K400s for my family room, tabling, etc. I ve always just had old spare keyboards lying around my house or my parents place whenever [ ]
24 years ago, Ben Folds Rockin the Suburbs entered my bloodstream – and I still remember the bus ride to Montreal with the CD in my Discman. It wasn t just the music though. Part of what mesmerized me is that the album was practically a one-man show. Ben Folds wrote, recorded, and produced the songs, [ ]
There are about 30 working desktops and laptops in my house, ranging from 1993 to present, but I think the coolest computer I have is my parents old IBM ThinkPad 240. One of the smallest ThinkPads ever made back in 1999, this is a vintage ThinkPad. It s still operational today after replacing a failed [ ]
Over the past few weeks, I ve been expanding my two-screen setups into three-screen setups — a laptop plus two external monitors. Because I thought I only had one display port (HDMI), I went searching for USB display adapters. (I just realized today that my ThinkPad T470 has a USB-C / Thunderbolt 3 port that I ve [ ]
Printers have always been terrible. I got away without buying a new printer since 2008 or 2010 until today. I bought an HP printer, because I ve used HP printers for a long time, and mainly because of the existence of hplip. My goal, after all, is to have no nonsense printing and scanning using only [ ]