YouTube Music
YouTube, for me, has replaced ye olde Napster (back in the day) as the main method of discovering new music. See, back in the late 1990′s – the far yesteryears – peer-to-peer file sharing was all the rage. If someone told you about a new band or song, you’d go home, boot up Napster, do [...]
The Book of a Google Faces
It’s been a long stretch of Truckin’ with Ron posts, so I thought I’d ramble a bit on the uses and abuses of ye olde Facebook. Recently, a friend of mine (who is an excellent blogger) “quit” Facebook. I say “quit” because, as she pointed out, Facebook saves ALL of your information (contact and “about me”, pictures, [...]
Truckin’ with Ron: Crudity
Someday I’ll post a real blog post, but until then enjoy another Truckin’!
The History of Fairfield and Jefferson County, Iowa
I recently wrote a two-part article on a basic history of my hometown, published down at Fairfield Voice. Part One: The Beginning of Time to the First Settlers Part Two: The First Settlers to Today It took me significantly longer than I anticipated to write these things. First, I put considerably more effort into writing [...]
Prolific Output into the Void.
I often wonder about how technology seems to have vastly improved our lives… when it fact it changes almost nothing. Before the internet, a single, unremarkable person with something to say would struggle their entire life to find a way to express themselves – to find an outlet for the voice, the ideas and feelings [...]
Helpful Spam
Lately I’ve been drowning is (apparently) Russian spam comments (over 30 yesterday), so I thought I’d translate a few and see what’s up! The best so far: Согласен с автором по поводу информации. = I agree with the author about the information. Может тоже себе сделать, буду думать. = It can also make yourself, I’ll think [...]
The Death of Growing Freedom
Well, it looks like my old blog “Growing Freedom” is dead. Apparently upgrading to the latest version of WordPress without backing things up is a bad idea. By all accounts my content is gone, even if whatever “Internal Server Error” sorts itself out. I suppose I should be upset – I put a good chunk [...]
