I’d love for Siri to become more than just a gimmick. For years I’ve anticipated that things would improve real soon now. I’m beginning to think it’s never going to happen. I still love my Echo, though.

I wonder how often this is a problem for them? Tesla Parking Only (2016). Nikon F3. Tri-X in HC-110 dilution B 6min.

I use both Day One and Tinderbox for journaling. Day One is nice when I’m out and about and want to include photos and location information. The Day One mobile app is great. Creating a Day One entry would go something like… Snap a photo, then type… “Had dinner at Amore and ordered this delicious lasagna” This would create an entry with the photo, put a pin on the map, and record the weather.

Kirk McElhern: This is wrong, and dangerous. Users look to release notes to find out what is new, and what has been fixed. If you cannot quickly see these changes in the release notes, you miss out on something important. I don’t know about “dangerous”, but overly-clever release notes are an annoying trend. The sooner the trend is over, the better.

Many of you may have read Jose Aguinaga’s post,How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016. You may have laughed, or you may have cried. Maybe you did both. I thought it was a fine way to poke a little fun at the runaway situation facing the JavaScript community. Most of the reaction I’ve seen has been combination of amused nods and quiet sighs. Some felt the need to rebut it.

I have a pretty decent sound system in my home office, but I rarely listen to it. Instead, I find myself just playing music through the iMac. It occurred to me that it could be because the stereo’s speakers are situated behind me. Maybe that’s what causes my “listener fatigue”. To test this theory, I ordered a pair of Audioengine A2+ powered desktop speakers and it’s made all the difference.

Dropbox has always been one of those services that did exactly what it was supposed to, and did so without fuss or bother. Lately, not so much. More often than not when my CPU is pegged it’s because of Dropbox. The hacky way Dropbox enables permissions for itself is discomforting. And now this thing with an unwanted Finder toolbar. It showed up yesterday for me and it immediately irritated me and I couldn’t disable it.

I put a roll of Portra through the Canon 1v. I haven’t shot much color film lately, so this was fun. The roll was processed at Meijer and scanned using the Pakon. Sage (2016). Canon EOS-1v. Portra. Pakon scan. Sage (2016). Canon EOS-1v. Portra. Pakon scan. Sage (2016). Canon EOS-1v. Portra. Pakon scan.

I carry a microcassette recorder in my car so that I can dictate quick notes while driving, with minimal fuss. I’ve tried replacing it with using Siri or other methods on my phone, but nothing is as quick and easy as the little cassette recorder. See this earlier post for details. Today I discovered an iOS app that attempts to make voice recording as easy as possible. It’s called Just Press Record and I’m finding it very promising.

Canon EOS-1DS from 2002 At nearly 15 years old, one might think it would be time to retire the 2002 Canon EOS-1DS in my closet. Not quite yet! I’ve always really liked the files from the camera, so I pulled it out today, charged the giant, clumsy battery, and shot a few snaps around the yard. I think it holds up quite well. Flowers (2016).

Leeloo. 2005-2016 Shortly after Christmas, 2005, my daughter surprised me by taking me to the local Humane Society and handing me an envelope with enough money for an adoption. She wanted me to pick out a new puppy. We already had 2 dogs at the time so I wasn’t exactly keen on getting a third, but I said I’d take a look. I immediately fell in love with an adorable pit bull mix and we took her home.

In 2003 I was using Blosxom to publish this blog. Even though Blosxom rendered via Perl, it was essentially a static blogging engine. All content was maintaned as simple text files. I tired of always editing text files and so I built a very simple static blogging CMS for Blosxom. I called it PHPetal. It worked well for what I needed, which was a web UI for editing content in a static CMS.