TechpadinPersonal Sixteen Chargers and Not One I Need A long-overdue cleanout of the kitchen junk drawer turns into an inventory of sixteen old charging cables and one very dead Fitbit charger. March 17, 2026·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal My House Still Doesn't Know What Time It Is Three days after the clocks sprang forward, a room-by-room audit of every device in the house that still hasn't figured out what time it is. March 11, 2026·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal The Backup Drive That Finally Made a Clicking Noise A weekend spent consolidating years of chaotic backup drives into a proper NAS setup, and what I found buried in a folder called STUFF2019. March 3, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal The Cable Drawer Finally Died A Sunday spent counting and purging fourteen years of accumulated charging cables, and a grudging admission that the USB-C mandate actually delivered on its promise. February 24, 2026·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Forty-One Abandoned Drafts Going through fourteen years of abandoned blog drafts, including a confidently wrong 2014 rant about RSS readers dying and a comments-section flip-flop I've repeated for years. February 16, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Fourteen Years of Unfinished Drafts A late-night cleanup of fourteen years of unpublished blog drafts turns into an accidental trip through old opinions, dead apps, and one very annoyed rant about Evernote. February 6, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Resurrecting an X220 as a Writing Machine I dug an old ThinkPad X220 out of a closet and turned it into a distraction-free writing machine, and the keyboard converted me into a believer. January 26, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal The Drawer of Dead Gadgets A January ritual of finally cleaning out the desk drawer full of dead gadgets, an eleven-year-old iPhone that still boots, and a mini rant about where to actually recycle the stuff. January 20, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal The Great Tab Cull of January 2026 A late-night browser tab purge turns into an accidental audit of a year's worth of unfinished business, half-read articles, and one free piano I'll never pick up. January 19, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal The Drawer of Dead Cables A weekend cable-drawer purge turns up a 2012 backup stick of old techpad drafts, plus a complaint about how inconvenient e-waste recycling still is in 2026. January 11, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal The Annual Tab Purge A year-end ritual of closing 200-odd browser tabs turns into an accidental audit of what actually mattered in 2025, and a look back at 14 years of this blog's Decembers. December 29, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Fourteen Years of Dead Links A weekend spent running a link checker against 640 old techpad posts turned up roughly 800 dead links, and a lot of thoughts about how fast the web rots now compared to a decade ago. December 21, 2025·4 min read
