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In 1944, before the D-Day landing and while WWII was still grinding on, MGM made a heartwarming movie about American soldiers successfully diffusing a notorious British ghost. The Canterville Ghost…

A little more than a year ago I wrote about the end of social media. I think a lot of...

Cory Dransfeldt loving the fact that Social media’s broken: Find your space and don’t feel obligated to participate in any of it. Like Cory, I have my website (I check…

When you're tired of all the advertising, surveillance, tracking, and invasive website modals and banners, you start appreciating how wonderful reading articles via RSS can be. Everything is preloaded, mostly…

Kelly and I decided to fly to Europe and hike for a month or so during August and September, 2024. The Tour du Mont Blanc is very popular so that…

Note: I used the tag 'searx' for this post even though I've been using SearxNG for quite a while. There's enough compatibility between the two that the stuff I've written…

What if the original tracks for meant for Eminem's fifth studio album Encore never leaked?

This is exactly how I did it, and how *you* can do it without repeating my dumb mistakes.

tl;dr: Follow @xeiaso.net on Bluesky

In all the hubbub back in September wondering how Apple was going to advertise its new iPhones with Apple Intelligence when Apple Intelligence wasn’t even shipping on the new iPhones…

My mom is a very good cook. We rarely went out to eat growing up or were allowed such delicacies as frozen pizza or fish sticks. She made dinner from…

There are different kinds of buzzwords. Some buzzwords are useful. They take a concept that would otherwise require a sentence of explanation and package it up into a single word…

Using digital tools to create analog art...

Due to my Redmi deciding to resign after five years of loyal service, I was in the market for a new smartphone. I had a few requirements for shortlisting: My…

...for a change. Thank or blame FlamedFury.

The percentage of movie screenwriters who are also producers on movies has been growing steadily over the past century but has started to wane in the past decade.

Earlier this year I shared some brief, off-the-cuff feelings about today’s web browsers, with a follow-up covering a few more some days later. Two posts seemed plenty; I didn’t expect…

About a hundred meters away from my apartment, between two groves of trees and a red-shingled temple, is a bakery that has been shuttered for eight years, ever since the…

 Construction on the Arts Building continues. This is a nighttime shot of one of the cranes on the construction site. Brigham Young University November 9, 2024. 

Former United States president and war criminal George W. Bush gave a speech in Australia, directing a v-for-victory hand gesture at the assembled crowd. It wasn’t received the way he…