Where it all started
In response to several questions generated by my last post, here’s a page diving into the details of my first year in computing.
Read More Where it all startedWhat I’ve done
My friend Deirdré Straughan recently posted a short rant on FB in which she said: My career – the entire span of it – is something to be proud of. I have never stopped learning and innovating, and I have worked hard to make things better for customers since long before Amazon came along. So…
Read More What I’ve doneBlog reactivation
As the subtitle above suggests, I’ve had a blog for many years. When I was working – and particularly when I had a job that required an active presence in social media – I blogged very frequently. My recent gigs required me to keep a lower profile, and coincidentally I refocussed much of my personal…
Read More Blog reactivationFour Google WearOS Smart Watches
The value and usefulness of a smart watch depends on two things: the device, and the software. A few years ago I moved out of the Apple ecosystem, so my recent smart watches have all been based on Google’s WearOS, an Android-based system. Unlike Apple’s closed world, WearOS is intended to be used by many…
Read More Four Google WearOS Smart WatchesWelcome back my friends, to the show that never ends….
I’ve been blogging since the last century, but I really got going in 2003. (You can read the first few posts here.) I’ve moved from Moveable Type to WordPress, shifted my hosting to various sites (including grommit, our Solaris x86 box), and most recently to a virtual machine in the AWS cloud. I’ve spun up…
Read More Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends….Update on moving in
As we continue unpacking and getting set up, I’ve found one system that didn’t handle the move too well. About four years ago, my storage system (for music, photos, videos, backup, VM images, and so forth) consisted of two Firewire 800 boxes: a WD Macbook Studio (2TB) and an 8TB RAID enclosure. Since my latest…
Read More Update on moving inHello world!
The website geoffarnold.com has been moved to a new hosting system. You may see some cleanup activity for a while.
Read More Hello world!How would an average user handle this?
I’ve been using an iMac as my primary home computer for the last five years. Nice system, both as a desktop and as a server for the rest of the apartment, with a string of FireWire drives hanging off the back. It came with 4GB RAM, and in 2012 I added an extra 8GB so…
Read More How would an average user handle this?Oliver Twist on bandwidth…
The obvious quote is “Please, sir, I want some more.” However perhaps more apposite is another from the same book: “Some people are nobody’s enemies but their own.” A year ago, we moved from Santa Clara to our new apartment in downtown San Jose. We’d been using an old DOCSIS 2.0 cable modem together with…
Read More Oliver Twist on bandwidth…All the planes I've flown on
This post was prompted by two things today. First, Tom Gill remarked on how important it was to pick the right kind of aircraft for the season (e.g. avoiding range-limited types when there are lots of delays, headwinds, etc.) and tagged me in his post. And second, I realized that my second flight today (IAH-SFO)…
Read More All the planes I've flown on