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Decades ago when I got hardcore into Adbusters one of the things I picked up around that time was to observe TV shows and ads.

First a primer: CRM is Customer Relationship Management, a genre of software that businesses often use to get a full view of records associated with a person, a cohort, or everyone.

Sonos isn’t a speaker company anymore.

iPhone Mirroring is one of those little Apple inventions that – when it works – is quietly excellent.

The ongoing flattening of everything is really, really fucking us up.

My EV6, one of the things I’ve written about here and on tumblr (the prequel to this iteration of phonezilla), is very much at its lease end.

I started writing in this iteration of phonezilla talking about my Moccamaster.

I recently did extended test drives of the larger Hyundai and Kia twins, the IONIQ 9 (I9) and the Kia EV9.

A few weeks ago my wife and I were doing some financial planning, and moved money from a HYSA account at Marcus to our checking account.

One of the things I dislike about our current streaming TV landscape: the complete mystery on when or if a show will come back.

The Denver Art Museum has an exhibition of Australian Indigenous Art, and one work that took my breath away was Big Yam Dreaming by Emily Kam Kngwarray.

I was at a big parking garage earlier today searching for a spot when there it was: a place to park and charge up my car, with a sign that said, “Free for first hour.”

In the 90s, Fun Graphics Machine (FGM) on the Commodore 128 (in 64 mode, unfortunately) was my jam.

No one who cares about usable software would ship something like this.

At an agency I worked at long ago, they were very strict about security for a lot of reasons.

Appointed, beyond creating my favorite not-cheap notebook, also produced a “studio calendar” that was gorgeous and equally not-cheap.

I recently watched a snippet of a MKBHD podcast video thing where he and his crew talked about the website RTINGS going full paywall.

It’s impossible to understate how influential Pandora was on me in the 2000s and 2010s.

My father was a photographer.

As noted elsewhere my Kia EV6 is rounding the bend on its 2-year lease, added to my household as a second car at a time when federal and state incentives were exceptional.

So many various thoughts on the whole Jony Ive Making a Ferrari interior that people are gettin’ excited about but a few loose thoughts before I compose them into something real: This had to be an hilariously expensive project. 2.5 years of design work, 6…

A number of years ago I was driving my coworkers from a successful client workshop.

A few days ago an essay by Terry Godier made the rounds, examining why RSS readers mostly look like email programs and also asking why they have an unread count (badge) in most cases.

Earlier today I linked up a post on Mastodon by Marco Arment (developer of Overcast) that noted the US’s march towards requiring a phone app to enter the country – one that completely scours one’s online usage and data, and requires a fucking DNA sample,…

January 25 marks the 27th anniversary of phonezilla.