Monthly Archives: July 2015

Science and Technology: Things to do with aged tech: Old smartphones as streaming media jukeboxes

Posted on 17 July 2015 by dlhitzeman

If you’re at all like me, you have a lot of old technology lying about. One of the most common forms of that old tech is in the form of old cellphones, which means for me, smartphones. One of the solutions I have employed for upcycling these phones is to use them as streaming media […] Continue reading →

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Writing: Pondering NaNoWriMo 2015 and the act of writing at all

Posted on 11 July 2015 by dlhitzeman

I know it’s a while until November, but experience says it’s never really too early for one to get ready for National Novel Writing Month. For those who might have missed it, NaNoWriMo is an event put on by the Office of Letters and Light that encourages people to write 50,000 words in 30 days […] Continue reading →

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Science and Technology: Glitches and Cybergeddon

Posted on 8 July 2015 by dlhitzeman

If you read the kinds of news feeds and websites I do, you can’t help but have come away with the breathless, panicky sense that the cyber world is collapsing in on itself as the result of what has been, so far, three unrelated technical glitches involving United Airlines, the New York Stock Exchange, and […] Continue reading →

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