Burningbird
How many times have I written about this change or that to my site? Not enough, it seems. I’m in the process of using that wonderful, magnificent site The Wayback Machine to recover posts from all my various incarnations of weblogs and whatnot sites. Yes, I do have backups from recent sites, but not the […]
Scanning and uploading old family photos. My parents used to give cool gifts to my brother. Train sets, car sets, interesting toys that could do things. Me? Dolls. Want to know my opinion of dolls?
The first image is “One of the Family”, by Frederick Cotman, painted in 1880. The second image shows the same painting, but this time in black and white from a magazine page. This second image is coated with ink marks, stains, and other signs of wear. The reason why is my mother used this painting […]
We look at today’s social media world post-Trump Presidency and we see a highly disconnected and fragmented world. The media proclaims it’s never seen society so polarized, but we’ve always been polarized. The only difference now is who controls the visibility of the fragments. Unlike earlier years, what was fit to print, or fit for […]
The second part of my Burningbird server re-awakening from the dead is my effort to find any and all past writings and import them into this weblog, one at a time. I’ve had so many variations of weblogs: some at domains I’ve controlled, others at domains I haven’t. I was able to export the posts […]