[lead dropcap="yes"]It’s been three years since I first did a “How I Work” blog post (at the prompting of Tom McDonald) and since then I moved to a different full-time job and then to another (current) full-time job, where what I do is now almost... [Continue Reading]
At the end of May we purchased a new family vehicle, a 2015 Ford Transit Wagon, to replace our aging Buick Terraza minivan. It’s quite the upgrade. We’d had the Buick for about 10 years and we have been talking about replacing it for the last five... [Continue Reading]
[lead dropcap="yes"]I've had a 2010 27" iMac sitting on my desk for the past couple of years, not being used for much.[/lead] I bought it used from the Archdiocese of Boston when I left my job in new media there in 2014, intending to set it up for... [Continue Reading]
It's tempting to think of era of black-and-white photography as is the whole world was in black and white then. That's why I continue to be fascinated by colorized photos in which a photo retoucher puts the color into photos as the scene might have... [Continue Reading]
Why New York Subway Lines Are Missing Countdown Clocks - The Atlantic: "The story of how it could take 28 years to install clocks that tell you when the damn trains are coming turns out not to be about some dinosaur fixed-block signaling system and... [Continue Reading]
[lead dropcap="yes"]Update, March 18, 2014: It turns out smcFanControl was not the source of the problem. Or at least not the sole source. Within days of disabling smcFanControl, I was right back where I was before: Every time the computer needed to... [Continue Reading]