While prophecies of the end of Usenet or the wider internet never came true, notwithstanding the latest variant that itās already dead, this blog is coming to a close. Since most people likely read via RSS, this final post serves as your notice.
Continue reading...One Of Those Hiatus Posts
Iāll try not to belabor the issue, but obviously I am having some issues when it comes to what I want to be doing with my blogging, as well as starting to deeply consider the fact of having it, and the restoration project, on a domain that should Automattic ever decide my time in their dotblogger program is over, would cost me upwards of $1,500 each and every year, which I donāt and never will have, and so if the domain could go away how much effort should I put into things here. I donāt know what any of my answers will be, but in the meantime Iāll be tinkering with a blog of a different sort on a different domain just to keep myself writing, and Iāll note that here when the time comes, but for at least a little bit, Bix Dot Blog is on hold.
Continue reading...Am I Blogging Or Not?
The sort of existential crisis Iāve been having lately about blogging happens to be coincident with the controversies over Automatticās various deals to provide data for purchase, sometimes for the purposes of A.I. training with sketchy and somewhat hidden methods of opting out, and thatās not helping any as I try to engage in some self-reflection and make some decisions.
Continue reading...Why Do I Blog, Anyway
It started with an offhand mention on Mastodon that Iām tired of my blog design, again and already, then turned into a whole other thing on Bluesky because I do wonder whether unease with technical things like this isnāt actually about other things entirely.
Continue reading...System Failure
Thereās a moment in Lost when Desmond is down in an access tunnel beneath the Swan station trying to turn a failsafe key while a recorded voice on a loop warns of a system failure. That loop was stuck in my head for a time this evening as I struggled to remember its source, because today was just such a system failure.
Continue reading...Can I See Baseball This Season?
Hot on the heels of my various posts about wanderlust and past travels, today as I watch a Red Sox exhibition game against the Northeastern Huskies to begin Spring Training, my thoughts turned to Seattle, whose Mariners open the season at the end of March at home against Boston.
Continue reading...Aphantasia, Meet Anauralia
Just a couple of weeks ago, I referenced what I called my aphantasiac monologue, an attempt to describe how i only can conceive of sounds, much as I only can conceive of pictures. Basically the idea that in addition to not having a mindās eye so, too, do I lack a mindās ear.
Continue reading...The Disablement Of Spacetime
At the end of a long and trying day that did not go in any way that especially resembled how Iād hoped it would go, disability access designer Nick Colley posted some thoughts to Mastodon about an overlooked aspect of designing for disability.
Continue reading...We Shouldāve Had A Web Of Personal Data Servers
Recently Iāve been exploring, once again, options for book tracking that arenāt Goodreads, prompted in part by this very long read about the site. Whenever I do this, it quickly becomes obvious that there simply isnāt one site or service that replicates everything Goodreads provides me: book tracking, author recommendations, and listings of new releases of the types of books I tend to read.
Continue reading...From Alaska To Bajor In Search Of Identity
Like many other people my age, Iāve been rewatching Northern Exposure ever since the digital release a few months back more recently was followed by Amazon picking up the streaming rights. Yesterday, it was the episode āCrime and Punishmentā.
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