Category Archives: Orcmid’s Lair
Recommending “Her”
Vicki was out of town on an important family mission during my official 75th birthday, yesterday, and I treated myself to the new film, “Her.” (Please don’t read the Wikipedia synopsis, it sucks the life out of the story and … Continue reading
It has come to my attention …
… That a sizable proportion of recent posts on this blog are about my resumption of blogging, my dereliction as a blogger, and other public manifestations of my miscreant ways. And I’m doing it again! Well, I have resumed curation … Continue reading
All Your SD-Card Belong to Us
After attending a Geek Dinner last night, I wanted to import the photos from my SD Card into my Windows photo folders for editing and posting to Flickr. Naturally, there were some cat pictures accumulated on my camera also. Unfortunately, … Continue reading
The Great Social Security Scare-Off: Why?
This arrived in my postal mail a few days ago: Today, 36 percent of the federal budget is consumed by Social Security and Medicare, a growing cost shouldered by the shrinking population of younger Americans.” There were other numbers being … Continue reading
RSS: Blogs as Publishing
I much prefer full-content blog feeds. I want to be able to use my feed reader to see what the article is. I can then delete it, flag it, or simply let it sit there until my attention comes back … Continue reading
Mobile Payment Systems Arriving–Ready or Not?
Michael Brush’s 2012-12-28 article, “The next big battle for your wallet,” caught my eye on this morning’s MSN Money page. There are a number of converging factors that suggest 2013 will see a flurry of mobile payment offerings supported by … Continue reading
Getting some Delicious (again, maybe)
It seems that the use of a DLL and plug-in is no longer the preferred way to connect to delicious.com for capturing bookmarks on that service. With the plug-in, I did have trouble losing my cookie and needing to log … Continue reading
Narrating the Work; Narrating the Numbers
Why Nate Silver and not other numbers guys? Because Nate is a blogger. Really. Others put data out there as well (see links at the bottom). Nice graphs and charts and tables. Great numbers, essentially the same as Nate’s. But … Continue reading
Write Once, Play Everywhere – MonoGame
Write Once, Play Everywhere Charlie Kindel just reported that every game company he met with on a trip to Jordan is using Unity and MonoGame for cross-platform development. That caught my eye because what works for game development can be … Continue reading
The Martian Chronicles
From my early teens into my twenties and beyond, I was an avid science-fiction reader. My affection for the writing extended to interest in the writers and attendance at science fiction conventions that happened to be near wherever I was … Continue reading
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