Posts from March 2025

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.

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.

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.

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. […]

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, […]