mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06I'm a geek, techie, drummer, amateur photographer, and typography nerd. My pronouns are he/him. I live on Woiworung land in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia).
I'm not quite an internet old-timer, but I have been on social media since the mid-1990s (dial-up and Usenet!).
I work in the analytics, web, and social media space.
I talk about a lot of random things and try to post photos that I've taken reasonably regularly.
Hats off to author Kelly Link over on Bluesky for playing off the original William Carlos Williams poem of the same name.
Kelly Link: https://bsky.app/profile/kellylink.bsky.social/post/3mjxcyfnwxc2f
William Carlos Williams https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56159/this-is-just-to-say
Artistically arranged outdoor seating that almost looks like a still-life painting at 1 Hotel Melbourne on the banks of the Yarra River.
"AI had hooked its tendrils into every corner of my work life. Even if I, personally, abstained from most AI usage, I was steeped in an environment which made it impossible to avoid."
Today marks 19 years since I formally started my #blog. By "formally" I mean I stopped writing sporadic life updates on my static-HTML personal website and installed WordPress instead. #TimeFlies
Sticking with the nostalgia theme, here's a recent post of mine in which I reminisce about the days when more publishers used to mention the #typeface used in the book they were printing.
Typefaces on book copyright pages https://www.insanityworks.org/randomtangent/2026/4/19/typefaces-on-book-copyright-pages
