October 2025
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!@#$%^&ingPa55w0rds
I'm trying to sign in to Linkedin on a second laptop, in a browser. Here is my log of how that goes: In an email Linkedin says "You can finish signing in to your LinkedIn account by following the instructions that we sent to your LinkedIn App." There is nothing to click on in the Continue reading
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Bing Bonk
As a geography and map freak, I loved loved loved Birds Eye views in Microsoft’s Bing Maps. Birds Eye’s advantages over Google’s and Apple’s satellite views were enormous, because all the imagery was shot from airplanes flying at low altitudes, rather than from a hundred miles up in space. Among other cool things, you could rotate your Continue reading
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Well, that didn’t work
I had a whole post that disappeared. This is where it would have been. The categories give a little away. Live and re-learn. Continue reading
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On the frontier of caring
Adopt a Station is a way to compensate for the funding lost to US public radio stations when the CPB shut down. No state is more dependent on public radio, or hurt by lost CPB funding, than Alaska. Here is a table of all the stations there, with graphs showing how much lost funding they Continue reading
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As foretold by Avatar
As a half-Swede (my Mom was one), it is sad to learn that Trump has demolished Yggdrasil, the Ancient Tree of Life. Continue reading
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On em dashes and ellipses
I don’t know who was the first to write The em dash is dead and AI killed it. Maybe it was Jacob Schilleci in the Reno Gazette Journal, but since most of it is behind a paywall and that paper is one of many run by Gannett, I’m not sure—though that’s where the first link in Continue reading
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A test
To see if this works with my blog. If it does stay tuned for more. Okay, I’ve been posting more, above. More importantly, I’m back in the groove with Wordland. I’d stopped while waiting for a new WordPress theme that would be friendlier to Wordland. I haven’t moved to that theme, but Wordland is working. Continue reading
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This is a Test. Or a Taste. Or both.
What see ye? I shot the photo above last night on approach to SFO. My window seat was on the left side of the plane. Tell me where this is, what the two most standout features are, and what was happening in the brigher one at the time. Just for fun. No rewards. I’ll say Continue reading
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My Three Hooks
For many years, I attended an annual gathering of folks who wanted to save the Internet for future generations. Aspirational guidance was provided by the metaphor “big hooks:” ones meant for catching big fish. Since I was a kid, my life has always been about big hooks, especially ones that maximize personal and collective agency, Continue reading
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Leavings
I live a full and active life. In fact, I’m probably more engaged than I’ve ever been, with faith that at least some of my ideas (here are three big ones) will play out in constructive ways over the coming years and decades. But, at 78 (still a year younger than the current US president), Continue reading
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Questions of Law, not Just Politics
Go to HUD.gov, and you’ll get this: Go to USDA.gov, and you’ll get this: Seems to me these violate the Hatch Act, aka “An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities.” It was passed in 1939 and amended a couple of times since then. I am not a lawyer, but I know some, and I can Continue reading
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Why I am Here Instead of on Substack
This blog is mine. While it is hosted somewhere, it could be anywhere. The main thing: it isn’t on a platform, and doesn’t have to be. I publish it on my own, and syndicate it through RSS. This puts me in a publishing ecosystem that is wide open and full of interop. If you want Continue reading