link roundup – MORIAH JOVAN

Utilities

February 9, 2024July 29, 2025Moriah

A screenshot of a mostly clear desktop (Win 3.x green rivets background, task bar on the right), dated 04/15/2020. — Writhe in misery, fools! Obviously Windows 3.x green rivets is not a utility, but I think of it that way. I ❤️ it so much I’ve ported it from computer to computer for 25 years.

I love utilities. Love love FLOVE me some utilities. I have utilities for every single damned thing I ever did and do, and some are already built into Windows. I even have a utility to make whatever latest Windows OS look like XP. Yes, really. You will find that some of these are quite primitive and/or aren’t developed anymore. I. Do. Not. Care. They do what I want and when what I want to do is something I can’t do, I go looking for more utilities. No, I don’t want one program with all the bells and whistles. I want one program that does one task well. Read more →

Of malcontents, futility, and funny prostitutes

June 24, 2015July 29, 2025Moriah

An image of a painting of Sisyphus pushing the rock up the hill by Titian. We are Sisyphus.

But the truth is that I am just really tired. Perhaps the vacuum in affect attested to by the accumulation of emoticons and emojis has little to do with the flattening effect of digital communication. Maybe feelings are simply exhausted.