Rex's longer article this week is, as he puts it, about "game culture -- and how it intersects with movies, music, and digital communication". A very interesting collection of thoughts. and even though I have never really been into computer games (except for a brief flirtation with RSI when Tetris first came out) I'm intrigued by his take on things. Especially the idea of blogging or doing iTunes playlists as a kind of computer game.

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Bad news on the gizmo front. First off, the noise canceling headphones I ordered almost two weeks ago, knowing that I had a 14 hour flight coming up, failed to arrive. I felt quite naked, when all around me were gizmo guys -- we recognize one another -- sporting the self-same noise canceling headpho...

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I’m impressed. Very impressed. I had been wondering how (or even whether, if it was difficult) to get blog posts out of my static site and into WP. Turns out to be a doddle, given the combined cojones of Tinderbox and WP. I created a new template for TB to export an RSS file. And I import that int...

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This is really funny, given that I am now slowly and doggedly transferring long-past stuff out of WordPress and into Grav, which is a return to a good old static site like the one I produced with Tinderbox. Plus ça change, eh?

After considerable soul-searching and head scratching I decided to swit...

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My gosh. This blog has been going for more than a year, nearly. So I need to think. Do I keep all the postings from five quarters ago on view? Or redesign so that the past year is on view, but previous posts are not? Or go by calendar years? (No, that's a bad idea.) Tricky, or what?