At the New York Times DealBook conference yesterday Musk said about advertisers leaving Twitter/X in droves after his stupid antisemitic remarks: I hope they stop. Don’t advertise,” Musk told interviewer Andrew Ross Sorkin. “If somebody is going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money,

I had so many plans last week when I had the full week off of work but Nature intervened and I spent most of the time in bed or on the couch with some virus that now seems to be ebbing but in it's wake a nasty cough has followed.

Happy Veterans Day to all who have served. Thank you for your service. This is my dad, Edward Kratz, in 1953 when he was in the Air Force. He was a veteran of the Korean War. If he were still with us he'd be 92. Sadly he's now been gone

Coming to the conclusion that maybe I need to broaden my horizons a bit when it comes to online publishing. Broadening can get expensive but when it comes to wanting to micro blog hosted Ghost isn't the solution. I'm liking this environment so far when working on some longer-form things

Seeing this all over the place, including Matt Fantinel's blog so figured why not add it mine as well riffing on Matt's list and others. Like Matt noted I've also tried quite a few applications but in the last couple of months have finally settled on tools, the list being

I like routine. Generally these are all prep tasks to get my day started off on the right foot. It helps keep a good level of sanity in my day and if I get off of some of the routines I've started it can mean a bad day (from a

or... I've set up a new blog for the 7,836th time. This post post probably should have come first but as you'll see below I'm settling for good... I see people say all the time "I just write for myself. I don't care if anyone else reads it". I

Apple held their Mac announcement event on October 30th in the evening which was a bit odd for Apple but given the Halloween theme (and length. only 30 minutes!) it was appropriate. I've been waiting on an announcement for a refreshed iMac which happened with this event but refresh is