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How I Finally Turned to ChatGPT

Dec 17. 2025

Despite being a self-proclaimed geek, I never fully embraced AI. I just never saw its appeal. Perhaps I'm too influenced by old movies like the Terminator series and 2001: A Space Odyssey? Perhaps I still keep hearing/reading about its limitations? Sure, I'll use Google Assistant to set my alarm and use voice commands in Android Auto while driving, but that is about all I do on a regular basis. When Photoshop announced it added a generative AI feature, I played around with it some, but I never used it after that one time. When everyone on social media downloaded EPIK and uploaded their pictures to generate AI images of themselves a couple of years ago, I did that too....

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Blogging, Personal, Web

Site Redesign

Oct 29. 2025

My blog has been around since 2006 and has gone through many redesigns since. But the last design was created in 2012 and hasn't been updated since. Although it looked a bit dated, I had no reason to change it because I liked it and didn't blog as much as I used to. But due to the ever changing nature of the web, I finally hit a stumbling block. My theme would no longer work with newer versions of PHP, and the Wordpress plugins that I relied on to keep it running were constantly breaking with updates too. Last year, my web host had kindly allowed me to run an outdated version of PHP so that I...

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Blogging, Home, Personal

Life Update, 1 Year Later

Feb 24. 2025

It may seem as though I've forgotten about this blog, but I've kept up with the Wordpress updates, regularly delete spam comments, and constantly have it in the back of my mind. So why another long lapse between updates? To be frank, my life is boring. Life is good, but boring with not much to talk about. I know I used to blog a lot about my kids, but I swore back then — and still keep with the pledge — that I will not write about them too much as they get older. When they were babies, I felt more comfortable writing about them because they hadn't developed into their own yet. But now that they're teenagers (and...

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Aerin, Blogging, Claire, Personal

It’s Been a Minute

Feb 01. 2023

So it's been more than five years since I've last written here. I debated even keeping this blog up every time I got a bill for web hosting or a received a renewal notice for the domain name. But I had written here since 2006 and there are 2,156 posts on this blog (2,157 now). I know I could've just archived it but I had put too much work into it. I have learned much, gotten many opportunities, and met many wonderful people through this blog. 😊 And when more than a few people recently suggested I start blogging again, I decided to dust off the cobwebs. So let's see. What's happened in the past five years? Well, in 2018,...

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Apple, Blogging, Personal, Relationships

More Technical Issues…

Apr 16. 2017

The good news is that I got my laptop back. Not only had Apple replaced my battery, they had also installed a new logic board, so my computer was running like new again.  :-)  The bad news is, this only lasted a few days. It began with a 1px-wide red vertical line along the right side of my screen. Then the lines multiplied, in different colors. After some time, the entire screen started flickering, changing back and forth between solid colors and a series of vertical bands. So I'm bringing my MacBook Pro into the Apple Store again tomorrow, and will probably be without my computer again for another week. Despite my technical issues, J and I had a wonderful time in Montréal. Our hotel was...

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