Hobbies Archives - Almontage

Winter Solstice

Economics , Family , Hobbies , Life Experience , Technology , Travel

December 17, 2018December 18, 2018

The days continue to get shorter as we approach the Winter Solstice. By now the sun doesn’t come up until 7:45 AM and it’s setting by 4:20 PM. We have a little snow out there,...

Christmas Music

Family , Hobbies , Life Experience , Technology

December 17, 2018December 17, 2018

I know, I know. Walmart has been playing “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” and “Holly Jolly Christmas” since November 1. But I haven’t. In the car, I dodge most of this dreck with...

The 400

Economics , Family , Hobbies , Life Experience , Technology , Travel

December 13, 2018December 14, 2018

I’ve been on the Web for over 20 years – at first with my own coded website, and later on with a blog. Some of the posts here date back to 2002. They originally...

December Photography

Family , Hobbies , Life Experience , Technology

December 13, 2018December 13, 2018

Here’s how things look in the old ‘hood on the morning of December 13, 2018. Real stimulating, eh? There are many problems with December photography and as a result, I always have very few...

The Calendar

Family , Hobbies , Life Experience , Technology , Travel

December 12, 2018December 12, 2018

One December tradition we’ve had for decades is to make a new monthly calendar for next year. Each month we put a new sheet up on the fridge to help keep track of things....

Gutenberg

Economics , Hobbies , Life Experience , Technology

December 10, 2018December 10, 2018

Simplicity. That was the hallmark of my migration to my own hosting domain for this blog. It was simple to install the WordPress software and plugins for spam, cloud caching etc. It was simple...

Spam Slam Thank You Ma’am

Economics , Hobbies , Life Experience , Technology

November 9, 2018

Spam isn’t just about email these days. You may have seen a particularly egregious type of it in comments to news stories or occasionally in blogs like “Bluebird Banter” or “MLB Trade Rumors.” In addition to...

Thelio

Economics , Family , Hobbies , Life Experience , Technology

November 6, 2018

These lovely boxes are not speakers for a hi-fi system, but beautifully designed computer desktop units called Thelio. They are made by US computer maker System76. What’s interesting about them is that they are built...

Message In A Bottle

Family , Hobbies , Life Experience , Technology

October 12, 2018

It’s a great Police song and a useful metaphor for a tiny personal blog like this one. Let’s be realistic – a site like Almontage is not ever going to be Google-esque when it comes...

In The Cloud(s)

Economics , Hobbies , Life Experience , Technology

October 5, 2018

Back in my youth, I was accused on more than one occasion of “having my head in the clouds.” I suppose there were worse places to have my head. Of course “in the cloud”...

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