‘The Drum’ goes still
July 14, 2013Sad news now a couple of weeks old — one of the way-best data/info sites on the InterWebs will soon go ‘archive‘ only and a neat, educated voice in the ether will go quiet. The…
Category Archives: Technology
Oil trigger
July 13, 2013Bright and sunny this Saturday afternoon on California’s north coast, a brisk wind on the chilled side keeps the air a little crisp. Due to a lot of other more-glamorous news topics the last few…
suspicious lies — PM edition
July 11, 2013Earlier this afternoon, just after work, and on an initial surf to catch up on the news via the InerWebs, up pops another explosive Eddie Snowden tidbit: Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services…
US vs them — Big Bro Cometh
July 2, 2013Another Tuesday morning here on California’s north coast with some high overcast and bit of a chill in the air. The week keeps on moving. And the commuting trials and tribulations of Ed Snowden continues…
Monday-time blues
July 1, 2013A bit of lingering fog this early Monday on California’s north coast with most-beautiful weather continuing on into a new work week. However, it’s pretty-much shitsville everywhere else. Nineteen firefighters were killed yesterday in Arizona —…
Drones over Broadway
June 20, 2013Seemingly clear skies this Thursday morning on California’s north coast, but I can’t see any twinkling stars — must be a way-high overcast way-up yonder somewhere. Well, this is Humboldt County, we’re higher than the…
New fit to reality
June 9, 2013A little overcast, and a bit more chilly this Sunday morning on California’s north coast, and already I’ve been drinking in enough InterWeb-shit on leaking bad stuff and whistleblowers in general, making the pointing out…
Boom!
May 26, 2013(Illustration found here.) Via Climate Progress: Elizabeth Kolbert is one of the most thoughtful climate journalists. Her terrific 2006 book, ‘Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change,’ famously ends: “It may seem…
Ludicrous Laptop Lullaby
March 31, 2013New life on the InterWebs this morning — yesterday I got a new PC, and hopefully this will put an end to a shitload of stress, at least for awhile. Three laptops in three months…
Laptop Lunacy
March 24, 2013Hello from the past. I’ve been involuntarily offline since Thursday — this laptop is a most-baffling mystery to me. Regular readers might recall my near-new laptop (and another functioning old one) were stolen in January,…