Study: World’s pile of electronic waste grows ever higher

2020-07-022020-10-06 — Technology — 2 min read

I just read this report about the growth of the amount of “e-waste” and how it’s been growing. According to the report, it’s been calculated that last year, 2019, the […]

KeepNote: A versatile note taking app for TDE

2020-07-012021-11-01 — Computing — 5 min read

This is a review of the very versatile yet easy-to-use note taking application, called KeepNote. Although the program has versions for MS-Windows, Mac, and Linux, I find that it is […]

How to care for your all-in-one nostalgia turntable

2020-03-252021-10-21 — Audio and Video — 5 min read

I thought I’d share with you some of the things I do to help keep our collection of all-in-one / nostalgia turntable stereos in tip-top shape. The kind of stereos […]

Review of the Electrohome Kingston RR75 Turntable

2020-03-232021-12-22 — Audio and Video, Product Reviews — 9 min read

Well, it finally arrived! Electrohome’s newest All-in-one turntable stereo is out and we just received ours yesterday. I’ve spent some time getting familiar with this latest addition to the “nostalgia” […]

Some turntable sound samples

2020-03-222021-10-21 — Audio and Video — 2 min read

I thought I’d share some recordings from my collection of all-in-one nostalgia turntables, so you can hear the differences in performances, produced by each of the record players.

Let’s not forget the portable LP players

2020-03-082021-10-21 — Audio and Video — 8 min read

I wrote a little bit about our collection of all-in-one turntable consoles, here. So now, let’s take a look at the handful of portable record players we’ve been able to […]

An unexpected collection of all-in-one turntables

2020-03-052021-10-24 — Audio and Video — 12 min read

It’s kind of amusing how, even though you never intended to collect something, you wind up with a collection of it anyway. This is what happened with me and those […]

My DVD burning rig: Asus EeeBox

2020-03-052021-10-21 — Computing — 3 min read

I just thought I’d take a moment and share with you the rig I use to process and encode my video collection. At the moment, I’m using this setup to […]

The Konstruktor 35mm SLR camera kit

2020-02-012021-12-30 — Photography, Product Reviews — 2 min read

For Christmas last year, my loving wife bought me another great camera to add to my collection; the Lomography Konstruktor 35mm SLR. This one is a kit, which took me […]

Greatly expand Vivaldi’s usefulness with TiddlyWiki

2020-01-282021-10-21 — Computing — 5 min read

The Vivaldi web browser has some pretty unique and useful abilities. But you can greatly expand on Vivaldi’s (or most any other modern web browser) capabilities with this elegant HTML […]