Author Archives: Mike Rockwell

I type in <textarea> input fields for a living.

Is there a way to search my email archives for all the unique addresses I’ve received email as? I’d like to forward everything to a single address, but don’t want to miss any.

Scanning three albums full of physical photos. It’s time consuming, but having backups of this stuff is *so important*.

I had a dream I was at a big family get-together again. It felt *good*. I didn’t like waking up from that — I wish I could have kept dreaming.

It makes me so happy to see people talking about Flickr. I don’t even use it, but I have an unexplainable affinity for the service.

Tip to parents with young children: buy a blanket or quilt with interesting objects and animals on it. Josh loves having us lay ours out on the floor so we can point out objects together.

My wife and I have a positive net worth for the first time in adulthood.

Traditional media is deprecated.

The benefit of funneling Twitter, YouTube, etc. into email and RSS is there is *always* a bottom — at some point there are no more new emails or RSS items.

But the social apps are filled with an endless sea of recommendations. You could scroll forever. And they want you to.