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From heyheyrenee, published 11-2-14 Midnight Express is one of my favorite movies. The other day I was thinking how out of the norm it is now, to have free thoughts that are “outside the box” (whatever that means). I was thinking nowadays how “odd” it is to be different, to
I wrote this on heyheyrenee on November 2, 2014: They say movies are where art depicts life — or something like that. It’s true. Right now, I’m thinking about a favorite movie, “Network“. I wonder when the millions of people who lost out on the American dream, who are
This was originally posted on heyheyrenee on October 22nd, 2015. I've modified it slightly, to bring in the importance of two critical figures in my life and Internet history - President Jimmy Carter, and Judge Harold Greene. Dennis Ritchie along with Brian Kernighan wrote a book that changed
I wrote this on heyheyrenee on Nov 15, 2017. I traveled from Eagle to Chicago to see history when Obama was elected in 2008. I was there in Grant Park when he came out and gave his speech. It was great to be there. What an experience. I remember leaving,
Howdy, I first started writing these posts on heyheyrenee.com in 2017, when I noticed people getting the peace sign wrong - using the Mercedes logo. For me, this foretold a bad sign. Today, Cory Doctorow calls it enshittification. The June 30 2019 was the biggest offender – until today. Today
Last week I was introduced to a new word - enshittification. It's one word that defines what I wrote about for years on heyheyrenee.com, pieces such as this one. Welcome, Robot Overlords. Please Don’t Fire Us?paulie Put simply, enshittification means everything is going to shit.
I wrote this in 2013 on heyheyrenee. I wouldn't change a word. Here's a great piece by Kevin Drum on Mother Jones on what the not too distant future will look like, technology wise. It's about what technology will do, the jobs that'
Howdy, I watched "Eat the Rich: The GameStop Saga" on Netflix last night. I thought it was entertaining and accurate. I started paying attention to the $GME story about a year after I got into crypto. I wrote a blog post about it on heyheyrenee - Pay attention
Here's a post I wrote in 2020. I'm posting again here, in it's entirety. #### The beginning of the end was early on in dotcom, when newspapers sucked up to the search and ad engines. Newspapers should have put up paywalls. But instead they listened
I wrote this March 2012, back wen it wasn't popular to side with Microsoft. Today, Microsoft dominates the server space and gaming. Their cloud platform is outstanding. Blazor is the primo framework to use for building interactive client-side web UI apps. C# developers are everywhere. They're
From March 2012 on heyheyrenee. We were on the waiting list for the 1st Nest thermostats. I knew they were going to make a dent, they did. #### The guys who designed the iPod designed a thermostat. That's right, a thermostat. We have 5, they're the best.
I posted this on heyheyrenee.com on March 14, 2012 #### Published in the Harvard Law Review, December 15th, 1890. This is on zeldab.com, but it deserves its own shout out. If you read this and still think there's no right to privacy, eh, you're mistaken.
This was the 2nd post on my first blog, heyheyrenee, from 8.30.2010. After I sold my first company in 2000 I needed something to do. So I built a treehouse. It was great, I spent a lot of time in it, like the week or so when I
gm, This is a post from heyheyrenee that I wrote on 12.15.19. “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” —- Mahatma Gandhi “Jesus was a socialist.” The title of this post and the two above quotes come from
Published on heyheyrenee at Mar 14, 2012 at 22:08 Here's a few of the first environmental movies that turned me on. Now 13 years later, have things got better? No. Only worse. Like, a lot worse. No one watches movies about the environment. Now they're
I'm starting to move some posts over from heyheyrenee. This one was from 3-28- 2012. It's timeless. Howdy, This is a great piece from TheDailyBeast.com on how the problem with health care is not, President Obama -- it's us. Folks, if we'
I wrote this on March 14, 2012. #### Our culture, our children, are falling behind each day. In China, kids march and wear uniforms. Average students take high level math classes at an early age. Our kids need to understand they’ll not only be competing against others in the room
This is one of my first posts I wrote in March 2014 concerning the environment. I've edited the post to note broken links. It's an important piece, why we stopped using pesticides years ago. One of the big reasons why our planet is crumbling is the
Published on heyheyrenee March 14, 2012 at 18:14 Here's two movies that I think tell the truth about social networking: "We Live in Public" From the "About" page: Ten years in the making and culled from 5000 hours of footage, WE LIVE IN
This is the first post I wrote in March 2012 covering what I needed to do to get my music and media to go from my devices to my stereo or tv. Now you just click Airplay. So I've managed to put together a media center that'
This was the first post I wrote on heyheyrenee about privacy, on March 12, 2012. I'd write a lot about privacy. This post is about zeldaB, a site we created circa 2007. zeldaB was the world's first private social network. The site never went anywhere, because
This post was first posted on heyheyrenee on 3-1-2012 ##### dialogic - video, voice & data solutions I started in tech in 1990, doing computer telephony apps. See this link... In my first business plan I wrote, "The center of commerce and communications will not be the PC -- it&
Post from heyheyrenee published on Oct 29, 2011 at 08:52 Dad and I saw A Prairie Home Companion live in CO Springs. It was great, our 2nd show together. Dad wasn't in as good of shape as our first show together, but he still enjoyed. He was
This was the first post on heyheyrenee, back on 8.30.2010. The 2nd link is broken, I left it that way intentionally. Garrison was fired from the show he brought to the radio for allegations of sexual misconduct. I think, firing him was bullshit. I had the pleasure and
