Year: 2020

  • The Value of Time

    We harvested our sweet potatoes and planted our fall garden. Tonights harvest moon marks the passing of the season. This always remind me of how we value our time.

  • Farm Aid

    Do yourself a favor and take a break to watch and listen to Farm Aid 2020.

  • Our 16th Anniversary

    My wife and I celebrate our 16th anniversary this weekend.

  • No, I Can’t Stop Your Spam (Part 3)

    My better half and I have been suddenly getting quite a few spam phone messages in the last month.

  • Keep Your Expectations Low

    I read a review of Bill & Ted Face the Music1 entitled Bill and Ted’s Excellent Midlife Crisis recently and it chimed in right along the lines of something else I’ve been pondering and joking with my wife about.

  • Nationalism

    Anytime someone says something I disagree with, I tend to go looking into it in a bit more detail.

  • Mac Mini

    I broke down the old Mac Mini yesterday.

  • Androgyny is Marketable

    There are so very few ideas that I haven’t grabbed from someone or somewhere else.

  • Illiberalism

    I watched the entire House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust because I was curious as what the heads of Apple, Facebook, Amazon, & Google would have to say regarding some of their practices

  • Architecture

    I’ve always had a fascination with building things.

  • We’re All Guilty

    My wife and I have a tendency to point out interesting tidbits to one another over coffee in the morning while perusing our intraweb devices. She has an approach that is a bit more empathetic than mine. I tend to want to humiliate folks for their stupidity, whereas she’s always trying to emphasize in an…

  • Dirty Algorithm

    I believe that there has been unfortunate unintended consequences of their algorithmic searches. If I, the user, don’t make a concerted effort to avoid the tools they’ve designed to keep me engage and improve my search results, I’m handed a list of information I already tend to agree with.

  • Confederate Monuments

    A guest editorial was published in our local paper a couple days ago entitled Leave Our Monuments Alone. It’s about preserving the confederate monument in front of our local county courthouse.

  • Together

    This is the last illustration from Milton Glaser

  • Althea Gibson

    Althea Gibson is an America treasure.

  • South Carolina PPP Recipients

    I created a database driven site for Paycheck Protection Program recipients in South Carolina.

  • People of Trump

    People of Trump – Living these days is making me nervous.

  • Good News Everyone!

    The symbolism of a for profit billionaire owned company launching astronauts into space above the heads of thousands of people protesting oppression amid a global pandemic and economic turmoil should not be lost on anyone.

  • Animal Crossing

    Day 32 of the COVID-19 quarantine and my better half has left me some mail in Animal Crossing.

  • My Personal Website

    What is a personal web page,or home page, or website?

  • Coronavirus

    We’ve been in a self-imposed quarantine for several weeks now due to Covid-19 pandemic.

  • Shall We Play A Game?

    After the movie War Games1came out in 1983, I asked my parents for a computer.

  • FooBar Challenge Fail

    I managed to not only to waste a bunch of my, but also my programming confidence over the last couple days because Google sent me down the rabbit hole.

  • Gutenberg Sidebar Plugin

    Rewriting my custom meta_key fields into the sidebar of the Gutenberg editor.

  • Richard Ayoade: A Catcher in the Rye

    My wife and I just finished watching all of the seasons of Richard Ayoade’s1 Travel Man2. In one episode we were watching he mentions that he’s half Norwegian which peaked our curiosity and we asked “what’s her name” to “Wikipedia Richard Ayoade”. I’ve started the habit of referring to Alexa or Siri as “What’s her…

  • Late Adopter

    I’ve gotten in the habit of taking a little time at the beginning of every year for general maintenance of the machines which I’ve written about several times. I’ve been reading a lot of other opinions on some various technologies recently and I’ve really started to consider why people decide to publishing anything. I’m really…

  • 2019 In Music

    Well… another year come and gone. I make a new playlist every month that you can find on @ https://open.spotify.com/user/windhamdavid . I try to use only new releases and some re-releases to make up the playlists. I keep track of all of my listening details over @ https://davidwindham.com/studio/music using the Last.fm API @ https://www.last.fm/user/windhamdavid. Year…