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I read Manu Moreale’s AI blog questions challenge a couple of months ago.

Kev Quirk posted a humorous note about selling RAM to pay off his mortgage.

I have deleted a lame analogy from something I posted the other day.

ELIZA is the first chatbot, a program written in 1966 as an experiment in natural-language processing.

The Wry Writer posted an interesting blogging topic, Five Ws of Reading.

This is my first post in response to Robert Birming’s JulyReply2026, a reply to Martin Schuhmann’s 5 Albums.

I heard about Robert Birming's Junited 2026 and wanted to participate.

We’re living in a time of insanity among technologists, politicians and business leaders, not to mention a good part of our population.

The Third Man is a 1949 film directed by Carol Reed, in part about the post-World War II underworld in Vienna.

Links I found last month related to independent web sites and blogs.

James’ Coffee Blog published an IndieWeb Carnival topic: Museum Memories.

GoAccess is a web log analyzer that creates useful reports from web server logs.

Some of these are a few years old, but still relevant.

Manu Moreale has an article on whether ad-blocking equals piracy.

The blogging challenge What’s The Oldest Thing You Own?

Thomas Rigby poses an interesting blogging challenge: what’s the oldest thing you own?

I don’t often take screenshots or use Mac startup commands, so I don’t have the commands memorized.

Advice for using email that I haven’t seen mentioned elsewhere.

My Darling Clementine is a 1946 western directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda.

For a wrap-up at the end of 2025, I thought I would try the Blog Questions Challenge as modified by Kev Quirk.

On my Uses page I mention the Dodocase I use for my iPad.

Articles that provide inspiration and motivate me to continue working on my website.

I’ve been learning Pico-8, the retro game creation environment, and trying to write a few games.

I started up this version of my website about six months ago.

Forking Mad+ posted this blogging challenge back in April, ten pointless questions to answer about yourself.

I have added a link for the Classic Arts Showcase (CAS) to my Links page.

Update January 2026: much of the information in the original article below applies to Debian Bookworm, and isn’t accurate for Debian Trixie.

I decided to run a local web server on my Mac to help while I’m learning HTML, CSS and Javascript.

As suggested by 32BitCafe, this is my Uses page: a list of the hardware and software that I use.

My first computer was a TI-99/4A.

I’m suspicious of free apps and services as a general principle.

I started learning to juggle from the book “Juggling For The Complete Klutz”, but eventually I turned to the Internet and to other books.

Package management commands for Red Hat- and Debian-based systems RedHat-based Debian-based Search for a package dnf search <package_name> apt search <package_name> Install a package dnf install <package_name> apt install <package_name> Remove a package d…

Use with sudo to ensure seeing all records.

I bought the book “Juggling for the Complete Klutz” back when I was in college, but I didn’t stay with it.

I still feel the need to justify creating this blog.

I have added a new section to my web site called “Sketches”.

A few notes on Joomla.

A few notes on Grav.

I enjoyed participating in the #20books20days challenge on Mastodon.

Having been inspired by the Indieweb movement, I’m finally adding a blog to my website.