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Lots of thoughts, ramblings and stories / Many topics on my mind over the years!
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Incredible week for AI (Feb 17, 2024)!
This week was a MONSTER week for anyone following the Artificial Intelligence developments. It is truly amazing how fast everything is moving forward. Four pieces of significant news came out this week: Then on top of all of that the YouTube release of these 3 videos this week: — My focus lately has been on…
GenAI Services Where is the beef?
If you still wondering “Where is the beef?” for Services take a look at these articles on the potential Take a look at the Accenture GenAI associated revenue up 17% from $300M in 4Q ( Services no hardware: Accenture CEO Julie Sweet: 2023 ‘Was A Year Of Generative AI Experimentation’ (crn.com) Accenture in fiscal 2023…
Elephant and the Rope
The Elephant and the Rope: A man observed elephants at a circus. Despite their immense strength, they remained tethered to a small stake in the ground. Curious, he asked the trainer why. The trainer explained that as baby elephants, they were tied to the same stake and couldn’t break free. As adults, they believed the…
Adding A Free SSL Cert to NameCheap
Namecheap.com is a great place to buy domain names. It also has some great shared hosting services. Unfortunately when you buy and host a domain name with them, they only give you a 1-year FREE SSL certificate and them you have to pay $8/year for each which can be expensive if you have many subdomains…
OpenAI – Just WOW
Wow. Just Wow! — What a weekend! — Even my wife, a non-techy, was tuned-in to every turn this weekend. This is by far the most incredible business tech story EVER! What just happened? There are many recaps online (see below) but ultimately it boils down to: There was a completely unexpected seismic event, followed…
Build Specialized ChatGPT apps using ChatGPT
This past week the first OpenAI Dev Days happened, and it was, groundbreaking at many levels. From the number of monthly users, developers using their APIs, GPT-4 turbo, ChatGPT store, lower pricing and many others. I will link below several articles for details. The one that caught my eye the most – mostly because it…
SureCART – A Simple Friendly eCommerce Cart Alternative
Recently one of my customers had his Etsy store suspended (it’s been going around) and he asked me to create a store in his existing WordPress site. I used SureCart free version, which I have been testing on my own site, and had 10 of his items fully enabled within 30 minutes, after receiving their…
THE TECHNO-OPTIMIST MANIFESTO
A quick post as this was just published overnight from Marc Andreessen – We will be talking about this for the next few weeks / months / years… I love this quote from the document: We believe Artificial Intelligence is our alchemy, our Philosopher’s Stone – we are literally making sand think. If you…
Time to say GoodbyeDayScheduler.com
DayScheduler is closed as of today… Posted in General We opened the site back in June 2018. Many users and many customers over the years. It served us all well. When the pandemic hit the world back in March 2020, everyone was grounded, travel came to a close and day appointments were no longer “a thing”….
Free Email List Service for Smaller Lists Oct 2023
need to send a newsletter to a subscriber list of about 1500 subscribers to one of my sites. Since I do not have my own servers, and are in a shared hosted plan it has become a small issue and now need to look for something to allow me to send this inexpensively.
Top 100 WordPress Plugins – September 2023
The WordPress plugin directory is the most authoritative source of information about WordPress plugins. It is maintained by the WordPress team, and it is the place where users can go to find and install plugins for their WordPress sites. This directory contains over 60,000 plugins, and each plugin’s page includes the number of active installations….
Off-Road Tales: Afternoon Discovery
This was a 2 hour afternoon ride in the back roads west of Munds Park area of the Coconino National Forest. It was a beatiful afternoon. A little Mud! I got lost a couple of times ( turn right instead of left), found a little muddy (yeah!) and I got into a little of a…
Off-Road Tales: Schnebly Hill Vista
This ride took place in the back roads west of Munds Park, Arizona inside the Coconino National Forest. The Schnebly Hill Vista is only 15 minutes away from Munds Park and it has a great The ride with my wife, was a short 60 minutes round trip and we stopped at 2 different viewpoints. It…
Messy: Twitter, X, X Pro, TweetDeck
Much has been said about the transformation of Twitter into X over the past few months after it was taken private by Elon Musk. I completely understand that many things needed to change, but the loss of the APIs and TweetDeck are significant challenges for most of us in the personal space and small business…
Off-Road Tales: Thomas Point Trail View
This ride took place this past weekend in the back roads of Munds Park, Arizona inside the Coconino National Forest. The view is at the end of the Thomas Point Trail, and it looks at 89A Call of the Canyon and Cave Spring Area This time my wife was with me, and she very much…
New Hobby – Off Roading
A few weeks back we purchased a used Polaris RZR Side-by-Side (SxS) to start doing some off-roading. So much fun ! I am not new to off-road, as I grew up in a country where it was pretty common to need to do it, but I have not done it in SOOOOO many years. Back…
Behind the scenes: World of Lobsters
Discover the intriguing world of lobsters with our comprehensive guide. Learn about their anatomy, habitat, behavior, and more. Find out how long they can live and why they’re considered a culinary delicacy.
Exploring the Fascinating World of Lobsters
Discover the intriguing world of lobsters with our comprehensive guide. Learn about their anatomy, habitat, behavior, and more. Find out how long they can live and why they’re considered a culinary delicacy.
AI to Disrupt Education
AI: The possibilities are limitless. One of the best examples of how we need to rethink things is provided by Kahn Academy and the work they are doing to reimagine education. The concept of having a high-quality personalized education program with a lifetime personal tutor / coach and assistant to anyone with a phone is…
AI Risks Points of View
Part of the Work Beyond Tomorrow Article Series Last night I watched a session in which I think these guys from @HumaneTech_ make some very good points on the risk of the exponential growth and adoption of current #artificialintelligence implementations @HumaneTech_ Points well made. Made me think of what people said back in the days…
AI Related Videos This Week
The conversation about Artificial Intelligence (AI), ChatGPT, AI-Bots and such is absolutely everywhere. I was at a social meeting the other day, and the topic was raised. It interesting that this is a conversation in the minds of the general public now. It is a conversation. that has many legs and many view points. I…
Preparing to Print Digital Art
This article is part of the Digital Art Series What should I look for when preparing a file? When preparing a file for digital printing, there are several things to consider to ensure that your print comes out looking great: By following these guidelines and ensuring that your file is of the correct resolution, color space,…
Moving to Selling Digital
This article is part of the Digital Art Series For the past few years, I have always been passionate about creating art. It is not only a hobby, but I now look at it as a great way to fulfill my creative side, but also earn extra money. While selling art at farmers markets and festivals…
Chat GPT – Digital Art conversation
This article is part of the Digital Art Series This is the transcript of a conversation I had (yes conversation) with Chat GPT about digital art. Keep in mind that ChatGPT from OpenAI is the first limited release of this “engine/platform” I must say that it was so much better experience than just using Google Search….
Business Dealing The Great Resignation
There used to be 6 people working daily here. Now they can cover it with just 2 Businesses need to adapt to changing and challenging times. A picture is worth… Solving #thegreatresignation #NewNormal #futureofwork #change
Combined Two of My Blogs…
This weekend I folded ModernEUC.com into Jorgep.com — I have been thinking about doing this for a while and combining the two sites, but, frankly, I have been lazy in actually pulling the trigger to do it, as it is a lot of work to do and not loose the data / links and such….
Moved the Site
Over the weekend I moved my site to a new hosting provider. Although things are much easier than years ago, it is not a trivial task/project. My website platform is WordPress and I have been using it for many (15+) years. It is an amazing content management system (CMS) tool. Over the years, I have…
Chip Market 2022- Explanation
Really interesting series of reports on CNBC regarding the state of chip manufacturing and who is in the lead of it all. It is three documentaries broadcasted over the past year, that were put together into one video. It is amazing to see how Intel was the first, and lost its lead and way along…