Third Blowback by the Luddite Brigade

This is the third time in 28 years where I received strong pushback from colleagues about my embracing of technology. The first time happened in 1996 when Irish artists were repulsed when I showed them what Adobe Photoshop could do with their original paintings. The second time was in 2008 when …

Watching Severe Air Turbulence

I used to fly four engine jets through areas of turbulence on trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific flights. It always amazed me when the sky was clear but the air was moderately turbulent. Over the years I started watching for more than five degrees of change in the outside air temperature or more than …

My Next Laptop Just Appeared with Satya Nadella on Stage

My next Surface Laptop won’t have a model number but it will have a NPU inside. The laptop will need an NPU because it does so many clever things since the hardware is designed to run AI natively. The new silicon inside is capable of more than 40 trillion operations per second. The promo …

Calcium on the school run

Thinking I should start a channel called “school run” especially for morning revelations.

Proud to see how young girls are thinking about enhancing sustainability with AI.

Today I discovered my microblog is inside the Wayback Machine.

CRM is more important for friend discovery now

I’ve had to increase the width of the slice of the Venn Diagram to rediscover where real friends are encamped on social.

Sharing Mountains of Social Media

I’m spending a day with a crew of mountain rescue workers to discuss unexpected problems with senior members. I’m bringing my perspective about practical workflows with social networking. My perspective involves a large measure of digital transformation with AI. I’m using a deck at …

Thinking about a cross-cultural learning oppportunity

During a series of hour-long Zoom calls with Filipe Santos, I discussed the complexities of Irish cultural identity and faith. I shared my personal experience of being Irish-American and how his grandmother’s values have shaped his understanding. We also discussed the importance of critical …

Measuring people through my camera roll

I’ve in-laws who don’t like having their voices recorded for posterity. And they resist any sort of casual snap unless it’s a family event. Because I’ve at least one image of each in-law for the past 15 years, I can see how people can shrink as they get older. Hopefully their …

Googlebots Crawl Microblog

I didn’t expect to earn any Google Juice from my microblog but plausible.io/topgold.m… shows me the little topgold.micro.blog has footprints visible in Russia, the UK, and the USA. It appears visitors from Twitter are masked as “direct” because I’ve clicked on tweets …

Refining Audio Production Workflow

I am trying to reduce my workflow while increasing my media production. Before June 2024’s Audiomo I want to figure out a way of producing content on the fly, ensuring the audio is discoverable and subscribeable. What you’re reading now could be subscribeable if you use an RSS reader. …

First Lab Session for AI Workgroup

I’m reviewing working notes at publish.obsidian.md/transform… left behind by a group of trainees from the Tipperary County Council who spent more than five hours on keyboards while completing hands-on tasks with AI. We used several GPTs from OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity.ai, and …

Red Book Preface #audiomo

I am thinking about carving out time for the social audio project called Audiomo. It runs every June with the Light Touch of Ernmander. I think I will figure out whether I can do the Audiomo challenge without ever leaving my 5yo Samsung handset. So I took a photo of a red notebook that has 229 pages …

Once a week we get a food bag and then zi ask AI how to integrate the surprise collection into a meal the kids will eat. The adventure starts at 2145 once a week like share.toogoodtogo.com/download

Currently charging four devices for a long day ahead. Transcript

I teach several different audiences how to use AI to find places. Sometimes we get better results with Yandex or Tineye. But geospy.ai is getting very clever with every incremental iteration.

Our dog has Cushing’s Disease which means her belly bloats when she drinks too much. So she lays on her back a lot nowadays.

Why Faster Upload Speeds?

Wondering why my home wifi upload speeds are nearly twice as fast as the download speeds. I have gigbit fibre to the home. We don’t get fibre speeds over WiFi but that’s alright.

Production Pipes are Clogged with Clippings

I have reached the end of my penultimate teaching year and still haven’t figured out how to clean out the production pipes because yet again I’ve amassed more than 15 GB of stray academic work on my laptop. I should be able to use a system that prevents me from harboring digital stash. …

Wouldn't find that on my GSM Phone

When my teenagers ask me what’s different between their iPhones and the 1995 vintage mobile phone in my gadget drawer, I tell them to read about the heat death of the internet www.takahe.org.nz/heat-deat… because that’s a good take on the distinction between our connected lives …

Throwback to my trans-Atlantic days

I have a daily throwback album and that means I can see things from the 80s like the seats I used to occupy while flying free across the Atlantic.

The value of local files

I am a deep believer in Obsidian. Its devs continue improving desktop services, mobile software, and the sync infrastructure. Its prime focus remains on the idea that people can and own their files locally–on their devices. There are seven people behind obsidian.md and the vision that enables …

There are more than 800,000 Ukrainian men living outside of their home country. Ukraine now denies Consular Services to those men. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/2…

Too Many Tools

For the past week I’ve tossed and turned in bed having dreams where I’m saying “I have too many tools.” I know that means I’m caught in a corner where I’m using a large number of different software, apps, and platforms as I try to stay ahead of students who want …