Category Archives: technology
Comparing eBooks
From now until 2073, any books published over 95 years earlier are public domain under U.S. copyright law. So in 2026, anything published in 1930 or earlier can be freely distributed. I’ve taken advantage of three different services to freely … Continue reading
Zeus Zapped the TV
Boom! The thunderous crash seemed to coincide with the brilliant flash of light outside the back bedroom window around 9:30 p.m. on April Fool’s Day of 2026. A lightning bolt had struck quite near Meador Manor. The cable modem lost … Continue reading
Bricking Books?
Back in 2008, I bought the first generation Kindle e-reader from Amazon. It was fun but somewhat awkward, with a keyboard of tiny buttons below the screen and big page turn buttons on the sides, plus an odd little scroll … Continue reading
News Contractions
The last of the original radio news services, CBS News Radio, will close on May 22, 2026. Below is President Franklin Delano Roosevelt doing one of his famous “fireside chats” in 1940. You probably recognize the NBC and CBS microphones. … Continue reading
Turn Your Radio On
Turn your radio on and listen to the music in the air…is a gospel song written in 1938 by Albert Edward Brumley. Born in 1905 in Indian Territory, near what is now Spiro, Oklahoma, Brumley’s success with I’ll Fly Away … Continue reading
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