Gordon's Notes

TLDR; If you are a US citizen by naturalization or adoption you should check (call SSA and wait on phone for 1-2 hours) that your SSN is cla...

This  Nov 2023 blog post from the CEO of a budget/financial management software firm (Monarch)  tells us a lot about why we don't have a...

Almost 40 years ago we used Quicken version 2 or 3 for DOS 3.1 on a Panasonic 8086 with 640K of memory and a CPU too feeble for a modern toa...

The original of this post is below. It turns out Vanguard's (algorithmically generated?) response is incorrect. As of 9/12/2023 there...

There are several software products I want nobody will build. For example, I want a “screen saver” that will randomly select from a collect...

This is how to build a safe, sane, and sustainable social network. Build it to be viable on $1/user year. Sell memberships for $25/year. ...

One of the odder experiences of aging is living through technology regressions. I’ve seen a few — solutions that go away and are never repla...

Quicken for Mac 2017 new features … Compare your income and spending year over year with custom reports Customize your budgeting goals mo...

I still want a graph layer atop my notes . Yes, I want my personal locally stored data unlocked  memex . Since the passing fad of the web ...

Early in my post-corporate days I wrote a detailed post on how I expected to do project management going forwards . Since then I’ve experime...

The American Red Cross runs classes in basic life support (CPR/AED) . I’m doing the professional course.  Historically these courses have b...

If you’ve ever wondered why healthcare institutions can’t easily share data between computer systems, just take a look at Calendaring in iOS...

My circumstances have changed. I may have more to say on that later; even in the sort term it is probably a change for the better. But of co...

It occurred to me, probably not for the first time, that there’s a natural local file store data lock free ‘file format’ for a concept map o...

I first published a Google Quick, Sick and Dead list in January 2009 , at the dawn of Dapocalypse . This was six months after the Battle of ...

This is a weird time in software. Lots of things are going away, but few new things are appearing. As best I can tell Windows software died...

In an alternate universe…. Today in a terse but clear posting on the Aperture web site Tim Cook apologized for the difficult decision to e...

For an old school technology geek, reared on local file stores and data cables and file formats and backups and (ugh) synchronization , the...

I've been idly looking for a solution to the blog backlog problem. Lately I've seen others looking for the same thing , so I'm e...

There are a lot of apps I want that that I can't find, apps like a personal-corporate search tool , or a corrosion-resistant wiki , or a...