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There was a time when owning digital space seemed thrilling, and our personal sites motivated us to express ourselves. There are signs of a resurgence, but too few wish to make their digital house a home.

As noted a while ago I went into a deep rabbit hole after wondering if the Apple lightning to 3.5mm dongle affects audio quality. So there is a chip inside the small dongle that converts the digital audio signal to analog. In case you're wondering, apparently the $15 (SGD) dongle is pretty good...

While waiting for my new book to arrive from the printer I’ve been going through some pieces I wrote years ago, and thought I’d keep you entertained in the meanwhile. This one appeared in Motorcycle Sport & Leisure twenty-three years ago. I’d been thinking of doing another long journey after living in the USA for twenty years, and it was time to see how it […]

The American national security complex has a long list of 21st century defeats to its name. I’ve spent a lot of time over the last few months trying to understand some of these failures. But …

As a profession, we seem to have cast our climate concerns aside, the second it became possible to earn a quick buck peddling coal-powered NFT pixels online...

I think it can be universally agreed that the last couple of years have been a bit, well, testing. There has been much recording of the tragedies of our fellow occupants of Earth, on which I am who…

5 weeks and 4000 miles through Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and California – Part I 2016 has been a rather weird and hectic whirlwind of jobs, travels, joggling visa days and running from the…

I have another birthday, and another bunch of unsolicited advice.    • That thing that made you weird as a kid could make you great as an adult — if you don’t lose it. • If you have any doubt at all

Jewish skullcaps Male Orthodox Jews usually wear skullcaps called kippot (singular: kippah) while they are awake, both outdoors and indoors. I’ve even met some who wear head coverings while t…

Exploring how different technologies can influence writers and writing. (Guest writers welcome — contact me if you'd like to contribute a piece.)

The payments industry in Japan is evolving rapidly. Some trends are globally relevant.

When I attended California College of the Arts there was an illustration professor who would often tell students that illustration wages hadn’t adjusted for inflation since the 1980s. He had …

As a lover of all things space I enjoy reading a wide variety of perspectives. The more different the origin, the more likely I am to learn something new! Even in articles which contain errors or e…

It was with dawning dread I realized I hadn’t camped overnight in the high Sierras since late 2015. I did attempt a family trip as recently as 2019 but we realized just before sleep time that…

SheIn, an e-commerce company founded in China but sells exclusively to overseas markets, is likely to eclipse Zara (Inditex), H&M Group, and Gap Inc. as the world’s largest clothing retailer as early as the second half of this year. It reportedly sold $10b worth of clothing in 2020 and $3.6b in the first quarter of this year, reaching a valuation of $46 billion. On the U.S. iOS and Android app stores, it overtook Amazon in May as the most downloaded shopping app.

Probably every parent in a fairy tale should be considered old. They are the previous generation. We may hear something of their lives...

The BESIDERS | Portrait of Ciro Comencini

Secure Scuttlebutt is easy to use, has nice offline features, and contains polite, interesting content.

MCA presents a summary of the benefits of freezing coffee, workflow examples and other useful information.

By Mohini Takhar Since I was five years old, I’ve known him, and we started dating when we were seventeen. In the tenth grade, I had the biggest crush on James Gabe. I tried to hide it, but t…

In his Nobel address, Seamus Heaney spoke about the issue that's been obsessing me lately: how, as artists, do we continue to do our work when the world seems to be so filled with sorrow, violence, and despair? What is...

Photo by Kat Jayne on Pexels.com Firstly, a trigger warning: the content of this blog post includes quotes from something that I received in the inbox of the magazine that I edit, and whilst I have…

I didn’t realize I had been inactive for almost a month! Life gets busy sometimes, so I suppose it’s unavoidable. My kids and I just returned from a trip to San Diego to visit some frie…