May 31.Again. Had to grab a couple of these Baby Sanford videos (on videos page)
May 31. End of the month. Finally put a page up about photography, specifically one print from back in the day. photography.html
May 26 again. Browsers do this wonderful thing now, when they encounter an .mp4 file, they get its info (in the first part of the file) and figure out how to time "range requests" that get chunks of the file, producing a streaming type of experience. It's seamless. It's like it takes little sips of the file. The Apache web server makes this possible, apparently without any extra work by the developer. Sadly, at least for my site, Firefox is not able to do this. So I've been using Chrome. Even though Google is evil (and where available, I use Chromium), Chrome is a good browser. I used Safari for a long time on Macs, but decided to switch in order to be able to add Privacy Badger. https://privacybadger.org/. I don't know if Chrome + Privacy Badger is better than Safari, but it seems like the privacy aspects (of P.B. at least) are more "open". Apple says they are a privacy-focused company but....you don't know, really.
May 26 adding video of Angelique Kidjo and Ezra Koenig performing the song "Contra". Contra.mp4. I don't know why I do this, but I extract these videos from youtube since I don't trust things to stay in place. Of course nothing is permanent. You can download and save the videos here, and I try to arrange for them to be good quality. It's insane that with a touch of your finger you can have an audio-video recording, but that's the world we're living in now.
May 25 David Eyre's pancake!!!! 
May 22 again**4 went looking for Charlie Don't Surf by the Clash and found this live video from Japan in '82! CharlieDontSurfLive.mp4
May 22 again**3. more good news about open source and sharing code (sigh) https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/05/destructive-malware-available-in-npm-repo-went-unnoticed-for-2-years/
May 22, again, again. Added Don't Let Me Down video.
May 22 again. Tried to improve the quality of the ArethaAndFatherOldLandmark.mp4 video. It's a lot bigger now...
May 22. Elementor on top of Wordpress in a docker container at home was pretty easy. Going through a series of videos on it from Safari/O'Reilly. Elementor seems powerful. The modern web is
inefficent and complex but it certainly can make things that look better than this blog currently does. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
May 21 again. Well, that was horrible. Wordpress installed, and Elementor installed, and then nothing worked.....some sort of cross-origin request security problem or some such. spent a few hours fighting with it. So much nicer to just edit this file and upload it :) .
May 21. I may do some tech volunteer work and they use Wordpress with the Elementor plugin. I got past the sales pitch for premium and saw how to add wordpress and elementor here, under a different path. In the process I made it so https://vin-dit.org works (without the www). I had not dealt with that. Will see what comes of this. Perhaps I will move my content into wordpress??? I started this vowing to just code html, sometimes in vim. Well, things change.
May 20. The news is hard to take these days.....This article in the Atlantic caught my eye.
It's the depressing tale of AI-generated content being syndicated to local newspapers. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/ai-written-newspaper-chicago-sun-times/682861/?gift=ftg65VXjPC_gNCeVusgSGXyMRg9YnV3x7AH5ScnYmGs&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
I am tired of AI....it's artificial, but it's not intelligence. It's "slop".
May 15. https://x.com/btnewsroom/status/1923052176693215406?s=48 “I condemn this genocide and complicity in this genocide.”
NYU student Logan Rozos denounced Israel’s genocide in Gaza during his graduation speech to roaring applause. In retaliation, NYU has withheld his diploma and is threatening further disciplinary action.
May 14. How can this have been so normalized? "Israeli airstrikes in Gaza kill 60 people, including 22 children, Health Ministry says". Why is this not the top story? Blood on our hands.
May 8 again. I recorded some things in Papua New Guinea 40+ years ago. I don't know where this was recorded or who it is, but
it comes up in my Apple Music because Apple Music adds files it sees on the computer, and I got this old tape converted to mp3s a while ago. So here for your listening pleasure are some
people in PNG in 1984. AmyoursBand01006.mp3 It's not the Amyours band, I don't think - see amyours.html for them.
May 8 - riding in the car today, they were talking on the radio about May 8 being "Victory in Europe Day" in 1945 - 80 years ago to the day!
They played lots of audio from then. It reminded me of Firesign Theater and National Lampoon parodies. People were so
overjoyed to hear that War was over. Well, that reminds me of "War is Over" by John and Yoko. So I have the movie here, it's also on
https://warisover.com (tell your browser you trust it, really, trust me ). John and Yoko were doing this about 55 years ago. Wouldn't it be great to be able to
announce "war is over!" about Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, etc? Do you want it? 
lennonWarIsOver.mp4
May 1, again - I don't know why I love this geek stuff so. I had been upset that chromium on OpenBSD seemed to be failing at some things; having just updated the system and packages, it is working nicely! The gods smiled at me. here is a screenshot from the OpenBSD Thinkpad of NeXTStep running in a chromium browser window: 
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May 1 : 
A new month! Although I had been thinking of abandoning my OpenBSD install on my Thinkpad, I decided to instead update it as a new release just came out. OpenBSD is kind of its own world now, I believe they have replaced the last of the UC BSD code....A world of C programming and no DRM. They have their own mail server, web server, etc. I haven't delved into all that very much. The upgrade was painless and involved downloading .tgz files (all automated), which is reminiscent to me of my first encounters with Linux, which were with Slackware.