Ubergeek Kelly's World- Life, technology, science, rants

I wrote about my failure to become one with the mobile internet back in 2008.

I read a post back during Blaugust on JCProbably’s site on the topic of friendship.

Irene and I watch a fair amount of TV.

I wrote about the impacts of AI development a while back.

I was saddened today to read of the death of Margaret Hamilton.

Superconductors are kind of bizarre even in their ‘normal’ state.

I have a lot of days, possibly the majority of my days, when I feel more negative than positive.

I take a fair number of random photos around the house, several a week on average I’d guess.

Fasten your seat belts as today my own personal “Wayback machine” is taking us all the way back to March of 2003.

I came across an article on Wired during Blaugust of 2024 and thought I should write something about my own introduction to coding as a teenager.

Two years ago Wilhelm had some well-considered words to say (TAGN) regarding the state of blogging in the 2020’s.

I was going through my notes from a year or so ago and came across a reference to this post from Axxuy on the topic of longevity as measured in blog posts.

Ten lions have been killed with poison in an attack on the wildlife in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation area.

Bhagpuss published a post a few weeks back about AI and how we feel about it.

Late last week Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay calling for the AI industry to be regulated for reasons of safety.

I have missed the actual birthday of Star Trek- September 8- by a good week.

I refuse to name the man here today who has called for the closure of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (CBC) in Washington.

My best friend Chris reached out to me at the end of June with a plan to meet up at a midway point between his home in Edmonton and our home in Castlegar.

Roger over at Contains Moderate Peril wrote a nice piece on boredom and what it means to him.

I decided recently that it was time to build a new network attached storage service for our home network.

I previously recounted an issue with my blog server wherein the MariaDB failed to start after a Fedora update.

September 1st is Tim Cook’s official last day as CEO of Apple after 15 years at the helm of that now-dominant company.

We lost another cat that I haven’t previously written about in addition to Iris: CoCo.

I spent a bit of time on Monday adding a PHP code snippet to my WordPress site that outputs a total monthly word count and average word count per post to the archives page.

The 2026 edition of Blaugust- the festival of blogging is wrapping up.

We had our beloved cat Iris euthanized after a long illness on May 1 of this year at the age of 19 and one half years.

Juhis tells us that there is no membership card for the Indieweb blogging community.

We have added a kitten to our clowder as of August 2, 2026, and her name is Sapphire.

I read a post by Toby on the topic of purpose as a general concept in life and found it very insightful.