Category Archives: Technology

Our correspondences… our intimacies

Posted on April 27, 2013 by otinokyad

While I was doing some Spring Webcleaning a year ago, I coincidentally received a phone call from Nick Bantock about my long-moribund fan pages on his Griffin & Sabine trilogy. As I subsequently cleaned up the link rot in Where … Continue reading →

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Weighing in on Moleskine paper

Posted on March 26, 2013 by otinokyad

After I wrote the previous post on The Moleskine IPO, I saw a hypothetical parallel to the company’s annoying unwillingness to reveal the weight of the paper in their “legendary” pocket notebooks. When the U.S. government mandated disclosure of miles-per-gallon … Continue reading →

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Long day’s journey into bitly

Posted on July 25, 2012 by otinokyad

…with apologies to Eugene O’Neill. For the past two years, I have checked in from time to time with bitly and added to my posts about what I found. What started as an amusing projection — how could the URL-shortening … Continue reading →

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Infrared and in visible

Posted on July 14, 2012 by otinokyad

A week ago today, one of the people I follow on Twitter — Tom McLaughlan (@daruma) — caught my eye with these 76 characters, quoting someone else to be mentioned below: “I wonder how many writers get together to compare … Continue reading →

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