In praise of audiobooks
While I’ve written previously about bumps in the road to enjoying audiobooks and my take on that score hasn’t changed, I have to say, when they work...
Category: tech
Ain’t no party like a beige.party party
When I first joined Mastodon in 2019, it was via a server — an instance, as it’s called — named mastodon.social. In part, joining that particu...
The trickiness of effective email addresses
I have a weird name. For those outside my family and group of friends who haven’t known me forever, the first one is pronounced “Ray” and the ...
Need even more reason to leave all Meta platforms for good? Here you go.
Hey, you know how Facebook (now called Meta) makes a fourtune from selling oceans of highly detailed, extremely personal data about each of its users to adverti...
… aaaaand we’re back!
It’s been… let’s call it an interesting few weeks. Back in mid-February, we were visiting friends in Florida. The day after we arrived, I woke...
I had a security breach. Learn from it.
A couple of weeks back, at least one of my passwords was hacked. Luckily, I was saved by 2FA. What does that mean? Ok, let me back up. For some time now, I̵...
Google notches up the war on adblockers
Some months back, I noticed more and more people I follow on Mastodon were commenting, or forwarding posts of others, on how they’ve noticed warnings on Y...
Reviewing one process of reviewing: Zero stars
Anyone who knows me and has had occasion to be with me in a location with no fixed address, where we split up and get together again later, has heard me sing th...
The dodginess of reward point systems
There’s no such thing as a free lunch, as they say. And reward card systems are no exception. I can’t speak to all of them everywhere, but can say w...