Closing a chapter of my Corona Diaries, for now
Corona Diaries 13—Virology 101
I’m a science and technology writer and my job often entails taking complex scientific data and translating it for a general audience. So as a public service allow me: You big Orange Ultramaroon and Pompeous Pompadour, nature made this bug. Period. A Rush rant isn’t evidence. Evidence is evidence. There are plenty of issues to […]
Photography, my own phantom thread
Dad would have been 91 today. I tell friends that the elder SMW haunts both my Facebook when I post photos and camera when I go out on my long constitutionals. Being the oldest of his brood, I was the first son to go to work with him and learn the mysteries, techniques and technology […]
Abandoning Windows Phone
Call me weird, a member of the forlorn 0.1%, but I like the Windows phone interface. It’s clean, attractive and easy to use. I like that Windows 10 Continuum is ambitious enough to provide a seamless experience across my desktop, tablet and phone. I’m annoyed that several of the apps I want, like my Digital […]
Unsolicited calls … Managed!
An unpolitical unsolicited call rant for the political season: I have no problem hanging up on unsolicited calls. If you’re my friend or colleague whose caller ID I won’t recognize, better let me know I know you in the first two words from your lips or I will disconnect you in mid-sentence. Apologies for […]