mobilene

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by mobilene 3y ago
After a frustrating incident long ago where my domain was registered at the same place that hosted my site -- and the host went dark -- I never register my domain with the same company that hosts my site. I'm on WordPress.com Business
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by mobilene 3y ago
This has not been my experience at all. The more I publish, the more interaction I get. The more interaction, the more people keep reading (i.e., subscribe). But this is clearly the author's experience, and if I were him I'd be de
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by mobilene 3y ago
I use a Nuc as my main desktop machine and LOVE not having the giant box under my desk anymore. I'm thrilled that the line will continue, because I'd have another when it's time to replace this one.
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by mobilene 3y ago
This cartoon is available on DVD in better quality. It's worth finding those DVDs, as they show the sheer brilliance of the Fleischer studio, especially in the early days.
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by mobilene 3y ago
Sadness. Anchor Steam has always hard to find here in Indiana, but I knew a few bars that had it. Delicious stuff. I'll miss it.
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by mobilene 3y ago
It's time. But I have fond memories of this service, of which I was an early adopter. My sons and I were among the first to sign up for the disc we could insert into our Nintendo Wii and watch the early Netflix streaming service, too.
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by mobilene 4y ago
What bums me out about this is that the site will disappear. For people like me who collect cameras and review them online, DPReview is a gold mine of info on cameras from the digital age.
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by mobilene 4y ago
I've blogged for going on 16 years. I seek an audience, people who want to keep reading what I wrote, rather than virality. I write about a couple of niche topics plus personal essays and stories. The long tail of the Internet brings a
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by mobilene 4y ago
DX coding was a clever solution for sure. As a longtime camera collector and film photographer, however, I shake my fist at manufacturers who made cameras that could read only a few DX codes, e.g., 100 and 400, and for films with other DX c
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by mobilene 4y ago
I'm near Carmel too. I remember when the roundabouts started going in. They replaced four-way stops that backed up for miles at rush hour. The roundabouts made traffic flow SO much better. Now Carmel is replacing some stoplights with r
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by mobilene 4y ago
We had a set when I was a kid in the 70s in the US. I might still have it. We played it a lot. It wasn't a hard game, and it was a simple way to pass some hours. Lots of good family memories there.
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by mobilene 4y ago
I'm a Director of Software Engineering today, but early in my career I was a technical writer. The #1 most important thing imho is know your audience. Who are you writing for? What do you know about them, or what can you reasonably suc
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by mobilene 4y ago
I have a blog in which I publish six days a week, plus a newsletter I publish once a month. Some people prefer (and subscribe to) one over the other for various reasons. A multichannel strategy just lets me reach more people who are interes
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by mobilene 4y ago
I've worked at a couple companies with holiday shutdowns. What I've learned is to enjoy them while they last, because they always end.
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by mobilene 4y ago
I forget that I was in the Midwest, not on the coasts, and things were likely different in this regard on the coasts.
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by mobilene 4y ago
O hai Dylan! Nice to see you here!
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by mobilene 4y ago
Memories grow dim after 33 years - I don't remember. It do remember that it didn't totally make sense to me at the time.
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by mobilene 4y ago
You're right, but there's also room for an old guy to reminisce on an anniversary.
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by mobilene 4y ago
I do acknowledge that my experience was a sample space of one!
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by mobilene 4y ago
Good point about the Amiga. Someone else here commented on Xerox PARC. So yes, there was UX design. However, in so many companies like the one I worked for in the story, it was utterly ignored.
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by mobilene 4y ago
Thank you! I enjoyed writing those behemoth 300-page manuals. The tech writing world has changed so much since those days!
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by mobilene 4y ago
The trick is to live on the north side. The odor seldom wafts northward.
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by mobilene 4y ago
I'm the OP. I wasn't very good at it when I started, but I persisted. And read books on writing. And was edited by a couple of very good editors.
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by mobilene 4y ago
This is straight up terrific. When I was a boy in the early 1970s I had a Spirograph and I just loved it.
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by mobilene 4y ago
This is old school. When I first wrote code back in the Stone Age we used to store our stuff on cassette tape.
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by mobilene 4y ago
College was 30+ years ago for me. I have one tight friend still from those days. That's it. In my first 10 years post-college I was way tighter with four or five more college friends. But like so many others have noted here, they all m
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by mobilene 5y ago
You're going to pay for storage somehow, somewhere. For my photo-heavy WP.com blog (of 15 years!) I've always hosted my photos on Flickr. I pay the $50/year for Flickr Pro which gives me all the photo storage I could ever wan
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by mobilene 5y ago
I have collected film cameras since 1976. The golden era for buying old film cameras was about 2005-2015 -- great gear could be had for next to nothing. Since 2015, prices have been on the rise and the hobby is notably more expensive now. B
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by mobilene 5y ago
I live in Indiana, where we didn't change time at all until ...was it about 10 years ago? I forget. We were EST year round It was wonderful not to have to deal with DST. But then we started observing DST and ...glory be, we had sunligh
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by mobilene 5y ago
Hunh, all the stations are UHF.

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