Bubbles Briefing

Last year I picked up a Kodak Retina IIa, part of Kodak’s popular folding camera line up. It’s got a few features like a frame counter and a rangefinder, but…

The saying extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence can be a guardian against being mislead, but only when one recognizes a claim as being…

I discovered unstory recently after nosing around Bubbles. I've read a handful of his/her posts now and Jesus Christ, I hope I don't end up as miserable and…

Vitals Christopher Plummer as Sir Charles Litton, retired jewel thief The Middle East, Summer 1974 Film: The Return of the Pink Panther Release Date: May 21,…

Putting a few photos on a new service is easy. Trusting it with years of your life is different. A while ago, someone who had bought a Lifetime Founder plan…

It’s not every day I read an email subject that makes my heart sink, only to find myself laughing out loud. Today I was told someone plagiarised my website!…

As I have mentioned, I rarely see things completely one way or another. Whether we like it or not we are multitudes and nuance is always required. I can’t…

...are always bullshit.

/pôrt-măn′tō, pôrt″măn-tō′/ nounA word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two different words, as _chortle,_from chuckle and snort. I love a good…

I like 1Password. I trust their technology. I do wish they'd made some different tech decisions, and some different business structure decisions - but as…

Ploum: “I don’t have a smartphone,” is what I tell people and professionals nowadays. This allows me to cut the crap about companies insisting that I install…

A short while ago, there was a now-infamous incident over at OpenAI: One of their AI models, during security testing, escaped and launched an attack on…

So I got the same form letter reply that everyone else did in response to this: man this sucks. sent them an email, and my renewal date isn’t until December,…

An old utility becomes a place to find peace.

I am extremely bad at hosting my websites, but I have a crap ton of them. They're all S3 buckets on AWS. I understand that this is stupid for someone like…

Recently I've been thinking about moving away from Debian due to… recent circumstances.¹ I'm not one to change their setup often so if I was to choose to learn…

Your brain does not multitask, it switches, and every switch leaves a residue of attention behind that eats into your cognitive capacity. That is where…

I am an artist. That sounds a little pretentious writing it out like that, but I’m working on being a little less self-conscious about it. Creating art is sort…