The View from Aristeia

While digitizing my analog videotapes, I came across a short 1989 demo by Bill Gaver of his SonicFinder™, an interesting piece of early work...

After more than a decade storing photos and videos in iCloud, I decided to download my stuff to my PC and delete the copies at Apple. I figu...

A few years ago, I published a series on metadata in image files with a focus on old slides and photos that had been scanned. I've sinc...

It's been more than two years since I last looked into the availability of all-electric convertibles , so I thought I'd do a quick c...

For six years, I've been in the market for an electric compact SUV. I haven't yet found one with the features I want at a price I...

Finding an Old TV Episode I recently found myself wondering about a TV episode I saw decades ago. I had only the haziest memory of it, so I ...

Yesterday I published the results of my latest testing of German grammar checking systems . Unlike my first round of tests, I included LLMs,...

Update: I have since added Anthropic's Claude to my tested systems, and it outperformed every system I discuss below. Details here .  A ...

In March, I decided to move from Windows to Mac. My goal was texting on the desktop, i.e., texting via my computer. Many people insist on te...

Five years ago this week my search for an electric compact SUV ended with me buying a conventional gas-powered car. I disliked the car (a Ni...

I can speak some German. I'll never be fluent, but I can usually get by. Sadly, I make a lot of grammatical errors. It'd be nice to...