Opinions & Observations from the Life of a technology journalist and confessed techno-junkie attempting to live the digital lifestyle.
Adios AIM: Tool to Create Constructive Virtual Presence AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) silently ceased to exist on December 15th, and most of the tech pundits I heard appeared to either be happy to see it go or spoke of the … Continue reading Adios AIM: Tool to Create Constructive Virtual Presence
Daily Random Shit: Photoshop Beginner: Removing the Background Last night I learned how to erase the background of my LEGO EV3 image using Photoshop CC 2018. At first I watched a video on YouTube (below), but the differences between the … Continue reading Daily Random Sh*t: Photoshop Beginner: Removing the Background
Daily Random Shit: New Camera, Continued I got to shoot with the new mirror-less Olympus E-M10 Mark III camera today. Loved it. I was right. With the stock lens, it’s small enough to fit in my 5.1.1. pants pockets and … Continue reading Daily Random Sh*t: New Camera, Continued
Daily Random Shit: New Smaller Camera: Olympus OMD EM10 Mark III Smaller, cooler, retro-looking, I’m really looking forward to shooting with this camera. I wish I knew about these mirrorless cameras when I upgraded my Canon Rebel last Spring. I’m … Continue reading Daily Random Sh*t: New Smaller Camera: Olympus OMD EM10 Mark III
TLDR: Dealing with a Dead Drobo I’m spoiled. I buy some piece of tech, I expect it to work, no muss, no fuss. I’ve been doing this long enough to remember how hard it used to be to get anything … Continue reading TLDR: Dealing with a Dead Drobo
Damn, my old Drobo FireWire/USB backup drive died today. Anticipating my summer travels, I had already switched to little Seagate portable USB3 drives… still feel sad and a little concerned whether I had moved everything onto other drives… 😕 Comments: Continue reading Daily Random Sh*t: Drobo Death
My name is Joe and I have a problem working on my blog or creating new blogs or posts when I have more important things to do. Even if I have student projects to grade for the next day or … Continue reading My Addiction: A Blogging Problem
Old school mind mapping I’m in the process of planning next year’s STEAM Lab curriculum and I’m having a hell of a time organizing my thoughts and resources. Going back to organizing my Magnet school resources in the mid-1990s I … Continue reading Can’t Organize Myself Out of a Paper Bag and Mourning the Loss of Circus Ponies Notebook
When I was looking at tech-upgrades, I remembered the Ricoh Theta 360 camera that I’d heard about way back in 2014 when a NASA Social buddy brought one to the launch of the Orion EFT-1. Here’s my first experiments with … Continue reading 360 Video/Stills Experiments Begins
Nothing represents new beginnings for me as much as Monday mornings. Or maybe I’m just being influenced by the changing weather/seasons and the approach of Spring Break almost immediately followed by Summer Break. It’s all one giant RESET button for … Continue reading Monday Morning Reflections & Renewal
DailyRandomShit for 2016-07-30 Remembering Why I Quit Windows Eight Years Ago I tried to upgrade my copy of Windows ahead of the end of the free offer and failed horribly. I had a copy of Windows running using VMware Fusion … Continue reading Remembering Why I Quit Windows Eight Years Ago
Daily Random Shit for 2017-07-01: The Toy That Refuses to Die This one popped up in my social media feed and reminded me of previous work done by yours truly and friends… Good times… Continue reading The Toy That Refuses to Die
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