The X-E5 has been sent back...
The X-E5 has been sent back. A lesson in there somewhere about ignoring hype.
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Love em or hate em the page analytics...
Love em or hate em the page analytics I’ve got show that the best performing posts on this site are the ones that are argumentative or talk about AI. 😏
Reed Albergotti on Google and the LLM race
a very smart take from Semafor’s Reed Albergotti on Google: “Whoever stands atop the AI race podium isn’t the main point anymore. The contest is now about using AI to...
On the other side of the AI coin...
On the other side of the AI coin posts like this one from Alan Jacobs: “When I see any AI make any progress on the amelioration (not even the cure)...
Dave Winer constantly praising, yes praising, Claude really...
Dave Winer constantly praising, yes praising, Claude really makes me want to steer clear of anything he does. “Journalism only sees the threat. This change is on the level of...
After some thought I decided to add my...
After some thought I decided to add my custom domain, 234north.com, here. The old “234north.pika.page” will forward automatically.
On Summer pastimes
Each Winter, prodded by the promise of warm weather to come, and the seemingly endless number of seed catalogs that show up in the mail, I get ready to plant...
Last call
I just realized the base feeling of all that has been bothering me lately when it comes to “online life” - the Internet used to be fun, and it’s not fun anymore.
Fujifilm X-E5 review
Update: because I keep seeing references from Kagi to this "review” let me expand on it just a bit. Key take awayOverrated in my opinion. Don’t waste your money. That...
Obama Presidential Center
Me, my wife, and my kids took a trip down to the Obama Presidential Center yesterday. Short review: meh. The campus is gorgeous, and the view from the 8th floor...
Nothing like spending the Friday evening before a...
Nothing like spending the Friday evening before a week off on a call for work… 😒
Agnostics
Read this today and was disappointed in the author’s definition of being Agnostic as “The position of being unsure or doubtful whether God exists.” Agnostics are not "unsure or doubtful...
Ghosts
Online Privacy Guide: Managed DNS services
(this was moved here from my now-private Ghost blog). There have been various articles online this week around privacy issues, mostly around cookie notices on websites. Not surprisingly the tools...
Publishing to the web with iA Writer
(this was moved here from my now-private Ghost blog). Just a quick post to outline how I set up the 3 other blogging platforms I am currently posting to in...
A new toy
With the X100VI that I’ve been pining over for years still not available due to limited availability I did the next best thing - I bought the X-E5. After years...
On “Hardcore IndieWeb”
(this was moved here from my now-private Ghost blog). Adam Newbold posted on his website an article "Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day" It's hard...
Contacts on macOS is broken
(this was moved here from my now-private Ghost blog). I have been running into issues with "make this my card" for several releases of macOS at this point, up to...
A prayer for Europe
Europe is burning this summer at an unprecedented scale. The continent is changing faster than any other due to climate change and is a dire warning for the rest of us of what is to come.
That smoke, way up in the atmosphere
Wildfire smoke is a weird thing. I’m sitting on my patio, watching the sun set. It’s very obvious the smoke is up there because of the color of the setting...
The tragedy of “Nine-O-Nine”
8 years ago today my son and I were at an an airshow of World War 2-era airplanes at a local airport, including “Nine-O-Nine”, a B-17 bomber owned by the...
Apple Photos updated to search by date again
Apple seems to have updated photos to search by date properly again. It used to be that you could search for any photo on a given day from any year....
Odyssey Schmodyssey
I must be the only person on the planet who doesn’t give a hoot about “The Odyssey”.
Valuable lessons
It’s both comforting, and a bit discomforting, to know that a person can learn life lessons at any age. I always thought that wisdom comes with age. In many cases it does. Sometimes it doesn’t.
Space: 1999
Amazon Prime Video appears to be a gold mine of old shows. I just started watching season 1 from 1975. This show was on TV when I was a kid...