Posts from March 2025

One time in my life I had an arcade machine in the house. It was a video arcade game, . I think I had it for a year or maybe slightly longer, then sold it. I've no regrets about that whatsoever. Once or twice a year I'll go play some arcade machines. I enjoy the […]

Navigation is wrong, and often. This is how to make it right, and also make it very easy to store locations for retrieval later.

To this day I see negative Amazon reviews from people who bought computer media storage and believe they got scammed - except they didn't. One of the more common ones are people who buy a 512GB flash drive, plug it in to their computer or phone, see a total storage limit of 476, and immediately […]

I recently did a massive reorganization of all my backups, which included thousands of JPG files I had to move around. The JPG image format has been around for over 30 years. Yeah, that long. JPG goes all the way back to 1992. As old as it is, it's still the best image format. However, […]

Since I started using DVD again for long term data storage, I've had ups and downs with this. Things were off to a rocky start at first, and it took me a few tries (along with several discs that ended up being nothing but "coasters" due to bad writes) before I found out what worked. […]

If you took a Fender Stratocaster and tastefully modified it for modern play, what you would end up with is the Pacifica. This is the guitar Yamaha can build that Fender can't because they're not "allowed" to. I'll explain.

This may be a small thing, but it was mighty convenient. Flash drives. . Easy, cheap data storage, except something is missing that they had before... ...an indicator light.

Skype is set to shut down this year, and this made me think of all the internet specific communications stuff I've used over the decades. Yes, it's decades at this point. In some respects, I miss how internet communications used to be, but it's not like I'd go back to the old ways.