Posts

Micro posts without a title will be mixed in here along with longer, titled posts.

As of fall 2024 I am in the process of slowly rebuilding this archive. It will, no doubt, take a good long while. I have posts going back almost every year to 2003 and currently most of those are at Denny.micro.blog. I hope to clean up old posts a bit and weed out a few. Most will find there way over here in coming months.

2024

2024-10-10 People working to build the personal web: Annie, Lou and Ela

2024-10-09 Foraging Walnuts

2024-10-09 Rabidosa rabida, rabid wolf spider

2024-10-08 #I've made a good bit of progress the past couple weeks getting my Images page setup. It's far from complete but I've got a good start. Each image linked to the matching blog post.

2024-10-08 #Sitting on the porch listening to a flock of birds in a nearby tree. I've not identified them visually but Merlin suggests Common Grackel or European Starling. They're having quite the conversation and and it is somehow very soothing.

2024-10-07 # A brief note of appeciation for Wikipedia. Such a gem. During a Facetime call with my folks this morning and I ended up down a rabbit hole about the history of race, relations, religion and language in the Middle East. In a very brief, lay-person sort of way of course. My poor parents. But Wikipedia got a donation out of the deal because I realized afterward that I needed to do a bit of follow-up reading and fact checking to confirm a few of the things I'd shared. After all these years I'm still amazed that a site like that came into existence and that it persists.

2024-10-07 A few thoughts on domain name-based identity being advocated by Jay Graber, Bluesky and others

2024-10-07 #Had an interesting five hour visit and conversation with a friend and fellow radical yesterday. One of the things discussed is our frustration with the lack of emphasis on, a commitment to, or even a notion of, daily citizenship. Trump succeeded in motivating half the country to anger and overt racism. But the other half of the country is still confined to the limited scope of electoral politics. That is a veneer of democracy, not the full depth and responsibility of meaningful democracy.

2024-10-07 # One year later and Gaza is now reduced to rubble. 41,000 dead (likely 100,000 when those buried under the rubble are included). 100,000+ wounded. Settler violence has increased in the West Bank as land theft has accelerated. Israel has expanded the war to Lebanon.War Crimes and genocide continue.

2024-10-03 Apple, Capitalism and 13 years under Tim Cook

2024-10-01 Daal and Naan: easy, simple home-cooked lunch

2024-09-30 The outlandish proclamations of the tech press

2024-09-29 # On a whim I started writing what I intended to be a quick response to Mark Gurman's comparison of Meta's Orion glasses to Apple's Vision Pro in his newsletter today. An hour later and I'm still writing, deleting, writing - something I may not even publish and don't care that much about. Stupid brain.

2024-09-29 Weaving the web but more like frogs visiting in a pond

2024-09-28 Want to help?

2024-09-25 Repairing rather than returning

2024-09-23 Pale Tiger Caterpillar

2024-09-23 Old man yelling at clouds

2024-09-22 Blue wax weed, Cuphea viscosissima

2024-09-18 Thoughts on single proprietor blog services and what if...

2024-09-18 Using devices as they were NOT intended

2024-09-17 RegEx and a stroll down memory lane

2024-09-14 20 years later

2024-09-12 Today's Mini-adventure in freelancing!

2024-09-12 Using the right tool for the job: Website coding, site management and blog posting from the iPad