Gavin’s Digital Diner

While there are lots of consumer-level products to manage digital images, photographs and the like, institutional options, it seems, are not that plentiful. Moreover, those options that do exist tend to cost a pretty penny. I don’t mean Adobe “Album” and Picassa. They’re wonderful products; I use Picassa myself. It’s great for an individual, but [...]

I was settling in to my seat on the 767-400; tucking away all the detritus that one travels with in today’s world – squirreling away my cheap paperback, iPod, and headphones in the seatback in front of me, throwing the blanket on the floor, and stuffing the pillow between me and the armrest. I travel [...]

One of the unanticipated side effects of trying to steep myself in Web 2.0 technology — my experiential dive into the world of digital media, of social networking, of Tags, and Blogs, and other fun stuff — is that I accidently rediscovered music. Rest assured, I’m not ready, yet, to turn myself into a Glyph, [...]

[Here's the text of a message about the impending DST change I posted on the Riders-Tech list a few weeks ago. Several people had asked me about it, and I figured it made more sense to post this than keep sending it out as email.]

[Note: Because of system troubles, this was also posted on my [...]

[Here's my follow up message on the DST change from around Valentine's Day (and nobody sent me flowers, even!)]

[Note: Because of system troubles, this was also posted on my old Typepad Blog – so if you're experiencing a vague sense of déjà vu… this would be the reason]

 Dear friends:

It was a couple of weeks ago.  [...]