Purpose
I read a post by Toby on the topic of purpose as a general concept in life and found it very insightful. His post is far more insightful than this…
Server outage- MariaDB and Fedora problems
My blog went down overnight without any planning on my part. When I checked it this morning, all three of my sites were showing an error that looked like this:…
AI Waste
I have Opinions™ about artificial intelligence. I'm not wholly against it, but I do feel that the current over-enthusiastic investment and circular dealing in the industry is a toxic aberration.…
Finding motivation
It is the fourth week of Blaugust, and the topic is on staying motivated. I normally don't post very frequently on my blog, so any increase over perhaps two or…
AI watermarking
I came across something on Engadget about AI watermarking being implemented to comply with new EU regulations. The topic was a new one for me, and piqued my interest. A…
An opinion about RSS
There has been a bit of discussion in the Blaugust community about the importance and nature of RSS feeds for bloggers. Roger at Contains Moderate Peril had his say, and…
On being mortified
There was a post over on the DivergentRays blog about mortifying things one has said or done. The example given of seeking out a kitty to pet at a social…
Throwback: Still quantified
I was just beginning to explore the concept of health monitoring or self-quantifying back in 2013 when I wrote about my use of the Fitbit Flex. I was hoping that…
Organoid Intelligence
I read an excellent article on Wired the other day on the topic of organoids and thought I'd share a bit about it here. Even the basic concepts of this…
Thirty one
As of today I have achieved the old school / traditional goal of Blaugust: posting 31 times in the month. My current count across my three blogs, not counting this…