A song’s background
Don't judge a song till you've walked in the shoes of its writer. Continue reading
Chaos Node
Letters from a middle-aged man (etc)
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Sudowrite: Steadily better at failing
I genuinely admire the people over at Sudowrite, but writing fiction is still well beyond the scope of artificial intelligence. Continue reading
“Hellfire!”
Some of us need more convincing than others. (The picture is royalty-free, take it if you want!) The Saturday before Whitsunday I noticed that I had a mass of acne or some such on the right side of my neck, Continue reading
Why are we not tempted to good?
If we, who were darkness, can become eternal Light (even if gradually, bit by bit), why are we not continuously tempted to do just this? Continue reading
Accident
Feeling sheepish today. On January 15, I went outside to buy some groceries late at night. I fell on ice that was covered with a thin layer of snow, and crushed my hip socket. All the king s horses and all Continue reading
Sudowrite scores a new point
Sudowrite Story Engine is now able to handle dual identities quite reliably, although some other challenges still remain. Continue reading
ChatGPT, help me install COBOL under Zorin OS, please
More realistic (but still imaginary) senior COBOL developer. Get them while they last! Or use ChatGPT instead, I suppose, if your business is fault-tolerant. Zorin OS looks reasonably Windows-like once you select the right theme, but to be honest it Continue reading
Zorin OS day
Why would anyone install something called Zorin OS? Continue reading
Goodbye Asus, hello Asus
I finally retired my old home office writing PC. Continue reading
The waterfall of technology
The river of time is turning into a waterfall as changes that took several years now take months or even days. Continue reading