Blog Posts

I visit a lot of sites. It often feels hard not to as someone who tends to be online more than he should be. One of the things I've realized is that I'm struggling to keep a repository of all the sites I visit that I want to bookmark for later review.

It was a quiet month with the exception of finally taking a nice vacation to celebrate my anniversary.

I'm going to call this v4.0. I know that's not really the case, but I think it's the 4th iteration of the site since I migrated to 11ty. With how often I work on the site and how many evolutions it has gone through, who can say? Either way, the redesign I've been hinting at is now out. And as a bonus, so is my photography site.

The US midterm elections take place on Tuesday, November 3. Donald Trump's presidency has been one disaster after the next. He has decimated the federal government to enrich himself and his cronies. He has sent the military and his goons into American cities to terrorize communities. The midterms might not ultimately put an end to his reign of terror, but it'd be a start.

There was a time you could walk down the street anonymously where no one would know who you were. I was alive during that time. I was too young to appreciate it, but I lived it unknowingly. I wish we lived in that time again.

There have been higher profile sites and people returning to X lately including MacStories, John Gruber and Casey Newton. It's disappointing to say the least, especially when they're trying to claim the moral high ground.

I wrote recently about Halo's future and the changing of the guard with Activision now taking control. The turnover and chaos was not limited to Halo. Xbox as a whole seems to be having a bad time right now. As someone who has had every Xbox generation, it makes me sad.

AI is taking over the internet. It's being shoved into anything and everything. One of the biggest impacts of AI though has been the lack of traffic to websites because of Google's crawlers.

I recently read this post by Mathias Schäfer and it made me sad, but also made me think about where I've been in my career and how I got to where I am now.

Halo is one of my absolute favorite video game series. I remember getting the original XBOX for Halo: Combat Evolved and having so much fun playing the campaign, and especially hooking it up to my dorm's network and playing some 16 player multiplayer with others in my dorm. I enjoyed the sequels, the expanded story and everything. Even after Bungie passed the baton to 343 Studios for Halo 4 I continued to enjoy the series. But the future of Halo is now in turmoil with Microsoft handing the reins to Activision, the studio behind Call of Duty. I'm not sure what that means for the future of Halo, but it's probably not good.

It was a kind of crazy month with hockey, but I was able to enjoy it. I got a lot of writing done and went deeper down the fountain pen rabbit hole.

Recently I had the desire to re-watch what is probably my favorite TV series, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Because of David Ellison's takeover of Paramount and Bari Weiss licking Trump's boots, I no longer have a Paramount+ subscription to easily watch the series. Luckily, I have the entire series on DVD. Owning physical media for the win.