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Ideapad
David Wertheimer
The Ideapad debuted on November 1, 1998, and is one of the world's oldest continually publishing blogs.
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Matt Glassman blogged about this topic yesterday, and I thought it was an interesting subject to recall. As he wrote, here are “the national news events for which I can recall precisely where I was when I found out about them. Excludes...
Yankees’ Netflix debut is latest example of sports’ complicated TV landscape. The headline of this Andrew Marchand piece in the Athletic says it all. Did you know the Yankees’ regular-season games shuffle between eight different...
Like everyone, I’m busy developing expertise in harnessing AI, vibe coding in my spare time. I have a couple of product ideas I’d like to wrangle, but they’re going to take some time to get right. So I’ve been undertaking in-one-sitting...
Really enjoyed this blog post that slowly traces the English language back in time for a thousand years.
I found all three of my Sony Walkmans on the walkman.land website. WM-F10: my first Walkman, received when I was maybe eight years old. My parents really went for it! This was a high-quality, tiny cassette player with a built-in FM radio...
I’m at the waiting room at the doctor’s office. It’s a big space, the entryway to a health center, maybe 50 feet long with lots of couches. I’m sitting at the far end, one of around ten people waiting for their appointments. A nurse...
The Neo looks great! Amazing that you can buy a full-on Mac laptop for less than a late-model iPhone. I kind of wish I had a reason to buy one.
I am something of a packrat. I derive comfort and pleasure from the artifacts of my past. My parents’ house is still full of material remnants of my youth, from art projects to my physical music collection to once-beloved items of...
I’ve discussed this plenty over the past year, but I do want to mark a milestone: I first started tracking my weight with a spreadsheet and a line graph on March 10, 2006. At the time, I was working at a beauty company, surrounded by...
I was using one of my more niche apps this morning for a work project and got to thinking about the little productivity things I have on my Mac that most people don’t. I’m not talking about Fantastical or BBEdit, which are well-known...
Baseball headline of the week: Kyle Tucker, Dodgers agree to 4-year, $240M deal. The Los Angeles Dodgers’ 2026 payroll is larger than the bottom five Major League Baseball teams’ payrolls combined. The Dodgers’ payroll is so big that the...
Many of the newsletters I read are publishing “best of 2025” wrap-ups where they rattle off the posts that either got the most attention or made their authors most proud. Which is nice and all, but I saw that content already. I guess the...
I took a microeconomics class my first semester of college as an undergraduate. It was part of the core curriculum requirements. I found it incredibly boring. My distaste for it was part of the motivation for me to declare a major in...
I have owned netwert.com since 1997. That’s a long time! I have a few dozen email aliases that route through this domain, for everything from work to shopping to family management. I have had Gmail since shortly after it went public in...
I recently pulled out my old Helly Hansen all-weather coat. My wife bought it for me on a trip to Norway back in 2007. It developed a small tear in the nylon on the chest, so I moved onto other jackets, including two more Helly Hansens....