A couple of days ago, I stumbled upon an interesting article on TechDirt about how many websites have started to wall themselves off from the open internet in order to prevent AI bots from scraping their content. I have thoughts about it.

September 13, 2025

It seems like when I’m not writing posts on one of my blogs, I’m thinking about whether or not to replace WordPress as my CMS. It’s an endless quest that I have gone on several times without ever actually replacing the software.

September 6, 2025

It seems like every browser is currently jumping on the band wagon and trying to “enhance” the browsing experience with AI. Vivaldi isn’t and that’s refreshing.

August 29, 2025

It seems like Harvard Law School got a pretty good deal on that geninue copy of the Magna Carta.

August 25, 2025

In this post, I share photos, stories and information about all of the cars I have owned over the years.

August 24, 2025

Such a lawsuit has the potential to shape the future of online publishing as well as search. It will be interesting to see how it develops.

August 24, 2025

Executives have started boasting about how AI is going to take a lot of jobs and leave people jobless. It seems they have lost their humanity.

August 23, 2025

A couple of days ago, I had a conversation with my programmer dad and we thought it would be fun to make fun of old C++ code.

August 18, 2025

I’m rewriting my personal website to use good ol’ fashioned PHP without a framework. This is why and how.

August 12, 2025

I have decided to completely reconceptualize the Stories section of Haunting Alex. This is what I’ve changed it to.

August 8, 2025

A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand is an interesting modern dive into the world originally created by Shirley Jackson in The Haunting of Hill House.

August 5, 2025

I recently came across a post on How-To Geek about how the author gave Windows a serious shot as his primary operating system for two years, but kept coming back to his Mac. That’s been my experience too.

August 5, 2025
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