I didn’t think I’d like Northern Ireland. It’s probably because of my Irish grandmother’s disdain for the British. What could the North possibly have to offer that’s worth leaving the Republic? Kinbane, that’s what. I took my family to Ireland for three weeks in 2024. I’d been twice before — […]
Blaise Alleyne
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It was a simpler time on the internet in 2010, but early battles for corporate control were well underway. Net neutrality battles between ISPs and consumers/tech companies were raging, as were the anti-circumvention copyfights. But beyond those narrow battles, there was a broader war. Jonathon Zittrain warned of The Future […]
I remember how the web once was – and I want it back. I want to make stuff, not hate stuff. We can have a different web, if we fight for it.
I don’t need new gear to sound better. I just need to get better at using what I have. I’m using my existing gear, and getting better results.
Over the past several months, I keep coming back to this thought: The internet is a confirmation bias machine. I once believed that because the internet exposes people to new ideas, it helps us to think more carefully. I still believe it can, but the vast majority of the time, […]
I’ve never spent more than maybe $20 on a keyboard. In fact, I’m not sure if I’ve ever bought more than one keyboard – aside from purchasing three of the excellent Logitech K400s for my family room, tabling, etc. I’ve always just had old spare keyboards lying around my house […]
24 years ago, Ben Folds’ Rockin’ the Suburbs entered my bloodstream – and I still remember the bus ride to Montreal with the CD in my Discman. It wasn’t just the music though. Part of what mesmerized me is that the album was practically a one-man show. Ben Folds wrote, […]
There are about 30 working desktops and laptops in my house, ranging from 1993 to present, but I think the coolest computer I have is my parents’ old IBM ThinkPad 240. One of the smallest ThinkPads ever made back in 1999, this is a vintage ThinkPad. It’s still operational today […]
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been expanding my two-screen setups into three-screen setups — a laptop plus two external monitors. Because I thought I only had one display port (HDMI), I went searching for USB display adapters. (I just realized today that my ThinkPad T470 has a USB-C / […]