What Did Mark Say?
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Dat Cord, Not Discord
I’ve often taken a keen interest when I see tech companies voluntarily shooting themselves in the foot with decisions that do nothing but upset and infuriate their users. Or they use practices that are inherently anti-consumer, such as decisions made around the Nintendo Switch 2. But that could be a blog post all its own.…
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How Canva Will Ruin Affinity
Before I get into today’s topic, let me take a moment and say welcome to my new home on the web. After a year at my former .blog address, I wanted to make some changes, including changing to a dotcom and just generally make the site a bit more clean and spartan. After all, you’re…
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Made by Google. Hilariously.
As someone who has been an enthusiastic follower of technology for more years than I care to admit, rarely does a preview of new devices stick with me in the way that this year’s Made By Google event from New York City managed to do it. Admittedly, I don’t use Google products hardly at all.…
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Apple vs. Jon Prosser
Are you familiar with Jon Prosser? It’s entirely forgivable if you aren’t. He’s a YouTube personality primarily known for his leaks of Apple information on his channel called FrontPage Tech. I can’t say I’ve ever been a fan of him or what he does, but I will give him credit for having a fairly successful…
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Nintendo Switch 2: A Nostalgic Journey Through Gaming
The following is something I wrote today for my personal journal in the excellent Everlog app (highly recommended), which I thought I would share with all of you with some minor edits. Today is the launch day for the Nintendo Switch 2 that people have been hyped for since it was announced back in April…
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Paywalling The Truth
Let me start this post with a little slice of life story. As I was checking what very few social media accounts I maintain (by which I mean read), I saw a story making the rounds that Amazon was going to start showing tariff pricing on their website in response to Trump’s decree. When I…
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Why Jeff Bezos Represents a New Brand of Sociopathy
First of all, allow me to apologize for the long absence from this blog for those who read it and hopefully enjoy it. With the advent of a new administration here in the US, the topics I want to cover seem to come hard and fast and it gets overwhelming as I try to sift…
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Tim Cook’s Donation and Media Accountability
If you haven’t heard the story by now, the news broke over the weekend from Axios that Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, donated one million dollars of his own money to the inauguration fund of the incoming President on January 20th. I’m not going to weigh in on whether that was right or wrong, because…
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E-Waste Epidemic
If you’re like me, you’re probably very much into tech. After all, you’re reading this blog from a link on one of two social media platforms where most of what I talk about is tech. It’s a fair assumption, wouldn’t you say? I’ve been into it as far back as I can remember. I grew…
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How Dismissed Feelings Lead to Tragic Outcomes
Ever since the news broke about the murder of the UHC CEO Brian Thompson, I’ve been trying to put it all together in my head and find a way to explain the overall feeling I’ve been getting for quite a long while. It dates back to well before this event. None of the examples I…