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  • Moving from Typepad to WordPress

    September 19, 2025

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    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 the other sites basically ARCHIVES using WordPress’ generous free site offering.

    Over time I might move some of that material under this site but that is still in the concept design phase.

    The biggest bummer is that all the graphics and formatting of these ARCHIVE sites are going to leave a lot to be desired. Much will be missing, and there is no easy way to fix them but by manually updating them. I will have to see how much juice can be squeezed to make that happen.

    Meanwhile here are the current links:

    • sholden.typepad.com > https://www.stevendholden.com
    • TechNewsRadio.com (Archive) > https://technewsradio.wordpress.com/
    • Christ Lutheran Church & School’s Grow-Pray-Study (GPS) Guide site (https://www.clcm-gps.com/) > https://christlamesa.wordpress.com/
    • ThePodcraft Podcast (Archive) > https://thepodcraftarchive.wordpress.com/
    • The Jersey Boys Podcast (Archive) > https://jerseyboyspodcast.wordpress.com/
    • AztecMedia.net (Archive) > https://aztecmedianet.wordpress.com/
    • VeteranStories.us (Archive) > https://veteransstories.wordpress.com/

    I am also planning to take their current domains and redirect them to their corresponding WordPress site but that probably won’t happen to October 1, 2025.

    Feel free to reach out if you have additional questions, suggestions, or thoughts.

    Cheers!

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  • Tech Podcast Historical Note

    June 25, 2025

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    I am just dropping this link here for historical purposes: Geeksquad in the Making? (Dec 2004)

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  • Ideas & Freedom Matter

    May 18, 2025

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    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 (MORE INFO).

    I am so sorry this happened. 

    Ideas matter. Freedom matters. Freedom of speech matters.  Critical thinking matters. Learning matters. 

    Sticking your head in the sand is stupid.

    Banning books is a sign of weakness and fear.

    While you can't watch the planned talk, here is the video of the talk that Ryan recorded later:

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  • TIP – Google Search Without AI Results

    May 14, 2025

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    Google recently created a new search option that provides no AI results.

    Here is the basic link:

    https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14

    The key part of the link above is the addition of &udm=14.

    You will get a search result related to what %s is if you click the above link.

    So you could change this to whatever you want, like (weather):

    https://www.google.com/search?q=weather&udm=14

    Anything you put in the search box will inherit the &udm=14 tag, and your search results on that page will continue to exclude AI results.

     

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  • TIP – EPUB format for Kindle

    May 3, 2025

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    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 update weekly in Obsidian is in MD file format.

    I converted that content to a graphic, to text, to PDF, and then to EPUB.  

    I found the EPUB to be the best for me.

    The conversion was simple: I cut and pasted the content in Obsidian to an open document in Google Docs and then "Download" (from the File menu) the EPUB version.

    Once downloaded, I use Google Gmail to attach the EPUB to an email to my personalized Kindle email address.

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  • 20 Helpful Verification Tools for Journalists

    April 21, 2025

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    This article offers a wealth of valuable resources, including "20 Helpful Verification Tools for Journalists."

     

     

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  • What If FEMA Didn’t Exist?

    April 2, 2025

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    A thoughtful and well-researched analysis of the question: What if FEMA* didn't exist?

    *FEMA = Federal Emergency Management Agency:

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  • Tip – Taxes & National Debt Podcast

    March 31, 2025

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    This Freakanomics podcast, "Ten Myths About the U.S. Tax System," is worth listening to if you want some great background on the current state of our National Debt and some suggestions on fixing tax policies.

     

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  • 1st Amendment Under Attack

    March 31, 2025

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    Brian Krebs's article "How Each Pillar of the 1st Amendment is Under Attack" is thoughtful and well-documented.

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  • Can You Develop & Sell A 100% American Made Product?

    March 21, 2025

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    The Search Engine podcast does a great job tackling this topic in the episode "The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber."

    I ordered one and will post a review and photos once I get it.

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