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Who Am I…. What? Are You Sure?

Posted on 24 March 2023 by rgdudley

Ancestor Assumptions Growing up we learned a bit about where our family originated. On my mother’s side, my great grandparents immigrated to the USA around 1880 — one set (Ehrsam & Oswald-Shmidt) from Switzerland, and one set (Willvonseder & Stein) … Continue reading →

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The Zeroth Law

Posted on 9 February 2023 by rgdudley

Introduction Recently I read an interesting paper in System Dynamics Review (Malczynski and Lane, 2022) regarding an exchange between Isaac Asimov and Jay W. Forrester. Asimov, the well-known scientist and science fiction writer, needs no introduction. Forrester was, among other … Continue reading →

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Old Photos, Lightroom, and Photoshop

Posted on 20 April 2022 by rgdudley

In the recent past I spent quite a bit of time scanning old photos, much of them from negatives and slides plus, of course, since about 2004 I have been using digital cameras which vastly increased the number of pictures … Continue reading →

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More About Taking Notes on the iPad

Posted on 16 April 2022 by rgdudley

Some time ago, several years, I wrote a note about taking notes on the iPad which at that time, 2012, was not a very good experience.   I was looking for an app that worked well for handwriting notes with a … Continue reading →

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Messing with WordPress

Posted on 18 June 2011 by rgdudley

I’m not a geek– really I’m not! And this messing with WordPress to get these blogs up and running is certainly not very straightforward. I had a blog on another site – the Google site: blogger. And that works very … Continue reading →

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