Category: Personal
-
+
+
+
+
+
+
My current daily routine will include reading and journaling from: Walking in Grace 2026: Daily Devotions to Draw You Closer to God Kindle Edition by Guideposts “The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman And I will also be listening…
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
-
+
+
+
+
+
+
I was recently doing some research on a future post about New Order / Joy Division and I found this concert filer for my first concert at the start of my Junior Year of High School. Thompson Twins plus A Flock Of Seagulls and special guest (no idea who this…
-
+
+
+
+
+
+
You can find out what I’m up to in near real-time via BlueSky (@sdholden.bsky.social). Also on Facebook (sholden) & Instagram (@sholden). Significantly less on X/Twitter (@sholden).
-
+
+
+
+
+
+
I recently finished this new book called “The Unexpected Journey: Finding strength, hope, and yourself on the caregiving path” written by Emma Heming Willis the wife and primary “care partner” for actor Bruce Willis. Some personal take-aways: I was not aware of all the different types of dementia. The resources…
-
+
+
+
+
+
+
I have been thinking of doing some pivoting related to domains and archive sites, and where things end up with the Typepad to WordPress transition. I did create a The Podcraft Archive site but you can also get to them via: https://stevendholden.com/?s=podcraft. The MP3 links are all dead though, but…
-
+
+
+
+
+
+
Since 2003 I’ve been using Typepad for my blog hosting site and for many of my side-projects, podcasts, and reference sites. Now that Typepad is going to shut down at the end of September 2025, I have moved all those sites to WordPress and making this my main site and…
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
-
+
+
+
+
+
+
I am just dropping this link here for historical purposes: Geeksquad in the Making? (Dec 2004)
-
+
+
+
+
+
+
I recently learned that one of the authors of The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living — Ryan Holiday — had his Naval Academy lecture cancelled: For the last five years, I've been reading this book as part of my daily morning devotion practice…
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
-
+
+
+
+
+
+
The last couple of days, I've encountered several situations where I wanted to quickly send content to my Kindle Paperwhite via the Amazon send to Kindle email service. They support several formats (PDF, DOC, DOCX, TXT, RTF, HTM, HTML, PNG, GIF, JPG, JPEG, BMP, EPUB). One piece of content I…
-
+
+
+
+
+
+
Mike Cosper (director at CT Media) recently pointed out in his podcast "The Bulletin – Gimme Some Truth" a paraphrase of this Kevin Williams quote — "It takes 400 words to correct one stupid sentence." A "lie" requires much "truth" to refute it. And who has time for that? Especially…
