Mike was a man of consistency. He worked at his first job out of college at the newspaper for almost 50 years until he retired in 2007. While he kept the same job, everything changed around him: the newspaper went from being the Minneapolis Daily Star and the Minneapolis Tribune, to the Star and Tribune before finally becoming the Star Tribune. He started when the paper was still typeset by hand and worked through the computerization of the print industry, including being instrumental in bringing Macintosh computers into the design process in the mid-1980s. [ Read More… ]

Why can’t Apple just synchronize our photo metadata via iCloud?

I hear the phrase “know your why” in the keto community. I first heard it from Brian Williamson (a.k.a ketovangelist) who I can paraphrase as: if you don’t remember why you’re doing something, what’s going to keep you doing it? My why has always been my mom, for many, many things, but specifically, her health struggles have always driven me to try to be healthier because I never wanted to end up with the same troubles. [ Read More… ]

A minimal monit-compatible implementation to report basic system info to m/monit.

Computer networks were revolutionary in the 1980s, but they’re required today.

When using the old computers I have, the first thing I discovered is that nothing on the web works in old browsers anymore. The old browsers can’t do modern SSL, PNG graphics, CSS or most HTML. So, in an effort to make the internet usable, I built legacyproxy. I mainly targeted Netscape 1.1N and it has some triggers for its specific User-Agent. To get started, you just configure the browser’s HTTP Proxy to point to a running instance of the legacyproxy. [ Read More… ]

Beyond the original Macintosh computers I have working, I assembled a few alternative Macintoshes using Raspberry Pis to emulate the old hardware.

I have a few old computers in my basement. They are mostly old Macintosh computers, starting with my first ever computer, a Macintosh LC. I started evaluating which ones I should keep by making sure they still work.

I have been listening to audio books while exercising and commuting. When describing the act of listening to an audio book, I use the verb to read. I moved all my summaries and history of books I’ve been reading to goodreads to make them more public, easier to maintain and keep them from taking over my blog.

For the past three months I have participated in Shawn Baker’s n=many carnivore study, 90 days of eating nothing but meat.