Iridium Spear

Summer Love

Well, it looks like WordPress did finally deactivate IridiumSpear.com and now my blog is back to being a plain-old WordPress page! What’s interesting is I do own the domain so I should be able to use it for something else, but I haven’t found a way to edit the nameservers yet. I’m sure it’s there…
The Baby

Elaine and I spent some time on the weekend using Dall-E and Suno to create a comedic pop star alter ego for her. The Baby, not to be confused with Da Baby, sings about a wide range of topics from her love of pickles to being unable to finish her pancakes. Enjoy. Edit: I’ve heard…
WordPress, If You Fix the Like Button in Reader, I’ll Pay for an Explorer Subscription Again

It’s insane that it’s been years and it’s still not fixed. If you use the Reader portal, you know what I’m talking about. When you click on the “star” icon to “like” someone’s post, it shows up as clicked for a second, maybe two, and then deselects. Of course, on the backend, you’ve still liked…
Why Budgeting Doesn’t Work for Most People

Ballin’ On a Budget … is impossible! To ball, one must live extravagantly and throw caution to the wind when it comes to finances (how’s that for a sentence that sounds like a geek is trying to be hip). Budgeting is the opposite of that mentality. You could argue that you can budget for frivolous…
I’m Free

My WordPress Explorer plan expired today which means if you view my blog outside of the Reader (which nobody does) you’ll see ads again. My domain is also supposed to no longer be linked to my blog, but so far it still works. Again, since no one visits the domain, I don’t really care if…
Voting

This is a fun prompt. Everyone has an opinion about politics. Even when people say they don’t care about politics, that is an opinion about politics. 😅 I voted in the past, but I haven’t in many years. As I got older and wiser, my political will slowly tapered off. I went from voting in…
Does My Baby Smell Like Soup?

Yup.
MusicFX: Create Prompt Based, Seamless Generative Live Sets Easily

When I “rebranded” this blog early last year, it was because I thought I’d finally found my two passions: blockchain and artificial intelligence. I was right, I’m’ still heavily involved in those industries, but it’s been a hot minute since I wrote about emerging AI technologies. There’re two primary reasons for that. First, it became…
Wrapping Up a Business Requirements Document This Week!

This post is something I’d probably publish on Snarebox if I went into more technical details, but this “layman’s draft” is more appropriate for this blog. Hopefully it makes sense to my non-IT friends. Business requirements documents are one of the larger, more important parts of my job. I write less of them in number…
The Biggest Change One Can Make

On starting life over in recovery.