Against Digital Sharecropping
I like being free and independent. I like the idea behind Instagram, but not the proprietary nature of it. I don’t like giving up my rights to work I create.  Even when it’s just a little photo of a little … Continued
Low-Cost Media Sharing
I’m not one to push any products as a rule, but when something that I’ve come to love and rely on goes on sale, I kind of feel like I have to share it. Some time back, I lost all … Continued
Spam Comments
I’m always a little torn when my comment spam goes up. Like most people, I hate spam, whether it comes in email form or comment form. I hate the way they mercilessly assault my blogs with every kind of advertisement … Continued
Draft – Version Control For Writers
I am a geek. This may be self-evident based on the fact that I work in IT and maintain several websites including two blogs, but the implications of that may not be clear. In software development, of which I have … Continued
Adding Style To Your Webpages
I am NOT a designer or web programmer. Sure, I’ve dabbled with Perl enough to be a Level 11 Perl Monk on Perlmonks.org, but I’m not really a programmer. And I’m sure not a designer, either, even though I can … Continued
Factory Reset
Have you ever wanted a “do over”? Remember when we were kids and we’d be out playing and something crazy would happen that totally messed up someone’s game? We’d more often than not give them a “do over”. We’d let … Continued
Free Installers
Let’s start the year slow. So, I’m sure a lot of you got new PCs or laptops, or upgraded your old ones, this holiday season. Maybe it was a Christmas gift. Maybe a Christmas gift to yourself. Maybe you just … Continued
HTML For Babies
No, seriously! Okay, so as we approach Christmas, I tend to think of gifts for people and I’ll no doubt post about them. Okay, so, mostly, these are things I wouldn’t mind getting, but, still, I have good taste, so … Continued
A Personal Wiki
Like Wikipedia, but on the micro scale. It may surprise some readers here that I’m a geek in my professional life. (Okay, so it may not have surprised many readers, but, still…) And, as such, I tend to use computers … Continued
QR Codes For The Road
I guess QR codes aren’t quite dead yet! Back in the day, hobos, or “gentlemen of the rails”, used to use a kind of code that let other hobos know important information. For instance, if they marked a cat-like symbol … Continued
