With thanks to former Moderator of the United Church of Canada, Richard Bott I find his draft policy on Faith Formation and Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence well informed and compelling. AI is here to stay; the genie is out of the bottle. For myself, I try to limit use of AI for many of... Continue Reading →
Houston, we have a problem
[Ken Gray] This past week has been a horror show of personal technological challenges. I am normally pretty good at solving glitches, at creating digital workarounds, at reaching out to support systems when necessary. This past week, however, was different. In preparing for a funeral I needed to edit a Youtube video. Easy-peasy I thought.... Continue Reading →
Rolodex rules
You can still buy them because more people than you think still use them. They were ubiquitous office organizational tools before the advent of digital contact managers. The brand still exists offering a wide variety of office management tools and devices. The one device however that put Rolodex on the product map was the folder... Continue Reading →
โCar for Saleโ โ Hereโs why
I do not drive a Tesla. Our family does not own a Tesla. I donโt even drive. So I have no skin in this particular consumer decision game. I cede the argument to Goddess Mia who makes her case on Facebook. The โcommercialโ is beautifully filmed and carefully reasoned. โCar for sale.โ The value of... Continue Reading →
AI, AI OH?
I make no apology for my cheesy title; it is a contemporary re-working of a traditional childrenโs song: ย Old MacDonald had a farm; AI AI Oh. And yes, I thought it up all by myself! No AI involvedโa product of my own warped imagination, more attuned to poetic scansion than content-rich technical analysis. You must... Continue Reading →
CARS – An Elegy, with a nod to the future
Photographs by the author Some people collect stamps; others collect old cars and trucks. Or if they donโt collect them, they donโt seem to be able to get rid of them. All over the BC interior, I discover the shells of what were once beautiful and functional vehicles now slumbering in farmersโ fields, amongst old... Continue Reading →