Because technology should be the means, not the end.
No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just … come out the other side. Or you don’t.
Stephen King, The Stand
I logged on this morning to see news articles about the shuttering of the CIA World Factbook website. I’ll admit that I hadn’t personally used the site much but I’m still disappointed that it’s gone. This site, and the print edition, was an example of a government agency giving the information it had collected back…
I really spend too much time on Facebook. I enjoy the conversation and I enjoy sharing things so I’m on there quite a bit during the day, even though I have a lot of other things I should be doing. To make my time there a little more productive, I’ve decided to start a new…
After finishing my review of the Rogue C# series and uploading it to Amazon, I’ve been getting things in order and deciding what’s to come for 2026. Here are a few notes: Rogue C# I definitely need to finish this series. It’s a software project, not a Game of Thrones sequel. It’s actually more than…
Recently, I picked up a used flat screen TV and thought it would be good if I could connect my laptop to it from across the room. At first, I was looking at extended HDMI cables but then I remembered the Qisoable wireless HDMI transmitter and receiver, which had been sitting on my wishlist for…
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This weekend, I finally completed a review of the Rogue C# series and the Kindle edition is now live on Amazon.com. While the actual development of the game itself is nowhere near complete, you can now have an offline version to read on your Kindle or other eBook reader. The EPUB and PDF editions remain…
Listen to this post or continue reading below. (Audio provided by ElevenLabs.) This site has seen a lot of changes since I first started it in March 2000, just as I have. It started out as Drewslair.com, a purely personal website where I talked about some of my tech work and did a bit of…
I circled back to working with Python this weekend and learned how to use the BeautifulSoup HTML parser.
Vanessa Wingårdh’s video, Subscription Scam: We’ve Been Tricked!, reminded me to check through my current subscriptions and I thoroughly recommend taking a few minutes to check it out. She provides a number of examples from other YouTubers who have discovered just how insidious the subscription trap can be and how easy it is to rack up hundreds of dollars in charges or more every year.
From the introduction to Self-Guided SQL – I continue to define my use of A.I. every day as the tools evolve and I face new situations but this still sums it up well. There is one thing that will not change as long as I continue to create and share content and that is that…
I’m starting another review of my recently published book, Self-Guided SQL: Build Your SQL Skills with SQLite, looking for anything I might have missed, and one thought I had was adding more material on how to access SQLite from programming environments. A couple of months ago, I uploaded a video on how to create a…