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daily blogging
I was recently cleaning out my basement and came across a cardboard box with some of my old junk from elementary school: grade four homework assignments, precisely. I was in a extra-curricular writing program, where we wrote little creative fiction stories and turned them into coil bound books that other kids could borrow from the…
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simply tech
I’ve given myself a quintet of weekdays to write some introductory posts before I jump into the meat of the the things I actually want to write about on this site. Navel gazing in the idea-killer, so one may as well embrace it for a few days and get it out of one’s system so…
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blog launching
What we have here is a good old fashioned blog. As I see it, one trouble with the world of technology is that we are very eager to proclaim certain flavours of tech dead. Once mighty and indispensable gadgets, tools, platforms, and formats are given a casual hand wave: no one uses that anymore. Yet,…
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introduction week
Splash screen fades to black and the logo appears on the monitor in front of you. I need to introduce myself. It’s not required, but something about starting a new project like this—yet again—seems unfinished if I don’t sit down and explain why I’m here and what I hope to accomplish. My plan is to…
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sound chatter
My first crude interaction with a chatbot opened with the simplest of requests: “Doctor Sbaitso by Creative Labs. Please enter your name.” Oh, sure. This crude little DOS program that came along free stuffed in with the sound card hardware was at best a gimmick. Those old enough to remember when computers could not produce…