My 2008 article about digital deterioration of e-books has, in a fit of irony, become unfindable through Google. The reason may be that no-one links to it any more, including the platform on which it was published. So let me link to it myself: The printed book as a preservation device In the article I … Read More

Jellow Use Google to find your freelancers instead. Jellow is a platform that connects freelancers with their clients. Clients post a description of the work they need done, then Jellow looks in its database for matching freelancers and asks them to pitch. When I first checked out Jellow, the thing that stood out is that … Read More

Every four years since 2010 I have been writing the ‘state of the CMS’ in which I compare how the major Free and Open Source (FOSS) content-management systems (CMSes) call themselves. Today’s version will likely be the last of the series. This is because in the past 12 years the main contenders for the title … Read More

This was a list I made of many of the problems I encountered using the Microsoft operating system Windows 10. I cannot remember why I started making such a list, but it is a habit. Maybe because other voices have much greater platforms and maintaining these lists protects me a little from the gaslighting. I … Read More

Lately I have been using my 2008 Asus EEE netbook quite a bit and when I noticed this, I decided to look for an upgrade. I knew that netbooks had been largely supplanted, first by tablets and later by Chromebooks, but what I had not realised is that they have disappeared completely from the market … Read More

In the 2000s I was a volunteer for Distributed Proofreaders, an organisation that produces e-books for Project Gutenberg using a process that breaks up the work in manageable steps. At the time I was looking into ways of creating a mobile scanning station that I could use to travel to libraries and rare book collections … Read More

This is the propaganda I watch and listen to on Youtube. Content warning: all of these channels discuss and often show extreme forms of violence. Not just because they discuss war, but also because almost all Russians are terrorists and criminals or supporters of terrorists and criminals, and because Russia wants to genocide Ukraine into … Read More

I made the following comparison of Wordpress and Drupal terminology for a customer and figured others might find it useful too. Important: undoubtedly the very existence of this table will create the impression that Wordpress and Drupal are much alike. This is obviously true in some aspects – both are open source CMS-es based on … Read More

Blogging is dead, apparently. But blogging is also alive. Both statements can be true at the same time without it being some weird sort of Schrödinger’s Cat situation. Blogging as a social activity, as the thing that the cool kids did to hang out together, seems to be mostly dead. I know a few people … Read More

Facebook has been having a lot of bad press lately, so much so that I have started to wonder if they are not feeding some of it to the media themselves, just to draw the attention away from all the other bad press. (Nah, just kidding.) The big one, however, at least (presumably) to Facebook … Read More