[drop_cap]I[/drop_cap]t’s practically a meme at this point. Any time the market share percentage on Statcounter so much as flickers, bloggers and op-ed editors pump out fresh articles proclaiming the glorious dethroning of the Mac/Windows Duopoly. “That’s it, folks! We are finally here: The Year Of the Linux Desktop!” As a ghost-Redditor wrote over a decade […]
[drop_cap]T[/drop_cap]he canonical collection of Hebrew writings known as Tanakh is one of the cornerstones of human civilization. Not only is it the foundational text of the Hebrew people, but it also provides the source code the two biggest religions on the planet were forked from. If, for a moment, we step back and leave all […]
[drop_cap]E[/drop_cap]arlier this year I found myself at a crossroads. Spotify’s recommendation algorithms hadn’t been what they used to be for a long time. I noticed they kept serving up the same lazy “safe picks” over and over again … When my wife kept asking me, “Hey, it keeps recommending that one song, how do I […]
Take an ebook. Take an audiobook. Smash the two together and you get a “TalkingBook”: synchronized text and audio that highlights what’s being spoken and lets you click phrases to trigger their audio content. In principle, it’s a simple idea. In fact, when I show it to people, it seems so intuitive: of course that’s […]
The Onyx Blackjack 2×2 USB Recording Interface is a great little box with some nice 60db boutique-quality preamps. You’ll often find it mentioned in forums and blogs across the web, and especially since this article, many people have been interested in the Onyx Blackjack as a affordable solution to power their gain-hungry Shure SM7Bs (in […]
[drop_cap]A[/drop_cap]fter playing around for a few days with Google Cardboard I definitely started to see the potential of phone-based VR but unfortunately the available games/apps on the Play Store were all rather short and restricted, seeming more like demos than full-blown VR experiences, so when I found that you can stream PC games in VR to your phone mode by […]
[drop_cap]W[/drop_cap]hile working on the latest two book and audio releases, I rediscovered the fun of playing old Super Nintendo games during downtime, the simple joy of quickly firing up Super Mario World in an emulator, stomping a few Goombas, flying high through pixelated skies, before going back to the grueling routine of editing, formatting, compiling vocabulary […]
UPDATE: In 2025 a lot of things have changed, but OneDrive still unfortunately gets stuck with its synchronizations. Here’s what you can do: Let Windows Update complete and reboot machine If it still gets stuck processing, do a hard reset: C:\Program Files\Microsoft OneDrive\onedrive.exe /reset or %localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\onedrive.exe /reset or C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft OneDrive\onedrive.exe /reset — I […]
Over the weekend I was indulging in nostalgic drum and bass reveries. Brought on by the delivery of our government prescribed gas masks — different story — whose packaging reminded me of the Breakbeat Era cover, I went on a three day serendipity spree. Here are some of the links and tokens of this journey. Curious […]