I have been using Google Docs to hold ideas, documentation, and random thoughts on projects. It works okay, allows searching of content, and is available everywhere on everything. But, I’ve been wanting to reduce my dependence on Big Internet companies and like the idea of self-hosting the services I use. So I looked for a personal wiki I could install in my hosting account. Continue reading
Month: January 2022
Rich Man’s Cassette Tape – Sony Super Metal Master
I’m all for preserving obsolete media, but I’m having a hard time understanding how an individual cassette tape can be worth $460! Continue reading
Xmas 2021 Computer Upgrade
For Christmas we got my son a bunch of computer parts to upgrade his main gaming PC. We had gotten him a RTX 2060 graphics card before the current shortage but his i5-3570 CPU was slowing him down. The most recent 12th generation Intel CPUs seem great and certainly worth the price premium over the 11th generation but he has a mini-ITX case and ITX motherboards that support the latest CPUs are still expensive – for enthusiasts only at this point. So I went with an i5-11600k CPU which is a 4X speedup over what he had, and twice as fast as any of the other computers around here (I like buying off-lease corporate PCs for pennies on the dollar.) Continue reading
Happy New Year! I got you a blog!
With the start of the new year, I thought I’d party like it’s 2006 and start a blog. I don’t expect a big audience but I hope I can help someone by documenting some of my projects. Continue reading