Category Archives: web

YouTube jokes

Posted on 2023-07-08 by skierpage

Concrete science A science YouTuber made an entertaining informative video “Explaining concrete while getting buried in it,” and found that he would rise out of the concrete slurry. Which prompted this carefully-researched anecdote: skierpage9:39 “I did not expect to be … Continue reading →

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buying music in high-resolution audio formats

Posted on 2023-03-05 by skierpage

Joni Mitchell’s Blue on vinyl has a distortion at times behind her voice and piano. Time to buy a digital track and see if it’s still there. What the heck, go big and get the 192 kHZ 24-bit FLAC high-res … Continue reading →

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crypto exchanges are a predictable disaster

Posted on 2022-11-12 by skierpage

FTX and 130 related companies (!!) declared bankruptcy, losing billions in customers’ money. Wait, what? I thought the whole point of crypto is only you know the password (the key) to the string of numbers (the wallet), for which the … Continue reading →

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web: LiveJournal was taken over by Russians !?!!

Posted on 2022-05-04 by skierpage

I tried to login to eBay for the first time in years, without success; it didn’t recognize my username or e-mail. https://monitor.firefox.com/ doesn’t think I was part of an eBay password breach, but it did report I was a victim … Continue reading →

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music: digitization and the Internet changed music, the Web didn’t

Posted on 2021-04-13 by skierpage

Videos-about-music maker Rick Beato made a stimulating video of “TOP 20 Inventions that CHANGED Music.” It’s entertaining and a pretty good list. Digitization! He left out the underlying technique of digitization. Without it, inventions he mentioned like CDs, PC music, … Continue reading →

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social web: not so friendly

Posted on 2020-05-25 by skierpage

I’m incredulous that people have more than 100 “friends” on Facebook, let alone 1000+. I used to regularly unfriend people, prompted by Jimmy Kimmel Live’s “National Unfriend Day.” Simply people I didn’t know well, didn’t interact with any more, or … Continue reading →

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web: book reviews again

Posted on 2020-05-11 by skierpage

I have a substantial pile of books I’ve read that will injure me in an earthquake. I ought to write perspicacious pithy reviews of them. I could write them on Amazon, but why should Amazon own and profit from my … Continue reading →

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web: frictionless writing corrections

Posted on 2020-02-16 by skierpage

When people rite rong, I can’t help correcting them, it’s the former tech writer/Edna Krabapple in me. If they have a Twitter account I’ll tweet a correction, but even if they notice and acknowledge the misteak they have to locate … Continue reading →

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web: how to link to a Facebook post?

Posted on 2019-12-13 by skierpage

Someone I follow asked “How does one copy the link of a Facebook post?” So you want to get a link to your Facebook post (e.g. send it in an e-mail). Facebook makes this stupidly hard! I wrote a long … Continue reading →

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music to which it’s easy to make hand gestures

Posted on 2019-09-27 by skierpage

Jia Tolentino writes in The New Yorker about TikTok, an app/platform on which people record themselves goofing around to music. ‘A twenty-six-year-old Australian producer … told me that he was now concentrating on lyrics that you could act out with … Continue reading →

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