My Desultory Blog

RichC | April 1, 2021

While cleaning up one of my old Flickr accounts where my Palm Treo 700p photos were backed up, I stumbled across one of the first photos with it I took and posted to this blog – June 2006. Even though the camera was lacking by today’s cellphone standards, I still think the Palm PDA turned […]

Category: Archive, Automotive, Cellphone, Gadget, Photos, TBT, Technology, Travel, Volkswagen | No Comments »
Tags: 700p, airport, april fools day, cak, Cellphone, coronavirus, covid19, electric, ev, facemask, flickr, halfmask, mp4, old tech, palm treo, Photos, sunset, TBT, throwback, thursday, vehicle, video, volkswagen, voltswagen

RichC | February 8, 2019

Yup … I have over 1000 photos. Once again, the lesson to take to heart is to "control your own data" whenever you can or be blackmailed into new subscription rules or lose everything.  Even more challenging if a company goes out of business or deciding you have infringed on their user policy without warning […]

Category: Business, Cloud, Photography, Photos, Social Networking, Technology | No Comments »
Tags: account data, flickr, Photos, psa, tech friday, techcrunch, techfriday, yahoo

RichC | December 15, 2015

One of the issues we found when replacing our roof last month was a wobbly chimney chase for the fireplace in the house. The original fireplace has a stainless steel chimney that extends from the first floor through the second floor, the trusses and then the “chimney chase” on the roof. The builder must not […]

Category: Archive, Misc, Personal, Photos | No Comments »
Tags: blogsy, chimney, fireplace, flickr, home, house, project, repair, roof

RichC | February 28, 2014

Once upon a time it seemed smart to host only light content on my own blog. In the early days it was easy to store larger files like video, audio and photos “for free” with content hosts like YouTube, Flickr and Posterous (among others). The plus was that I didn’t fill the “out of pocket” […]

Category: Advice, Blogs, Technology | No Comments »
Tags: blog, flickr, posterous, techfriday, youtube

RichC | December 6, 2013

Thought this photo would make an interesting animated GIF, so I tweaked it as a filler for today’s blog post. And in order to make this a “Tech Friday” post I’ll share a tweet that I haven’t confirmed works just yet: @LifeProAdvices: When you’re at an airport simply add ‘?.jpg’ at the end of any […]

Category: Photos | No Comments »
Tags: ani, flickr, gif, photoshop, techfriday

RichC | June 25, 2007

We had an enjoyable trip to western New York (my wife’s home) to attend my niece’s graduation from Maple Grove High School in Bemus Point. The weather and drive was beautiful and the time with our family too short. The small rural high school graduation (79 students) did offer an interesting commencement speaker for such […]

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Tags: bemus, family, flickr, howard, jackie, jamestown, jax, new york