Its Trouble...
My personal glimpse into the first half of the 21st Century for some yet to be known future
Saturday, March 25, 2023
Remote thought control
Friday, February 10, 2023
Facebook seems to be broken as a record of past check-ins and other events
In the past, I fairly consistently made frequent check-ins as posts to Facebook for places I visited. However, it seems Facebook is increasingly deprecating this functionality. You can still check-in quite easily, but old check-in posts are breaking. The issue seems to be getting worse over time.
Facebook was very reliable at one point. You could look back through your timeline to see what you did, where you did it, and when you did it. There was even UI that made it easy to choose a time period to peruse. This was useful for so many reasons, not the least of which is planning for further activities in places you already visited, or providing information to others who planned to visit those places. Let's also no forget the value of being able to stroll down memory lane.
Here's an example of one such broken check-in. It's a post in 2012 that simply says "Surprisingly good and unusual". The information about where this check-in took place, including the town and other general information has been completely removed.
Monday, January 30, 2023
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
New Patent issued
WYSIWYG editor for creating and editing a feature control frame for geometric dimensioning and tolerancing in computer-aided design system
US Patent number: 11,556,234
Issued: Jan 17, 2023
Inventors: Abhijeet Narvenkar and Matthew Lorono
Here's a newly issued patent by Abhijeet Narvenkar and myself for the WYSIWYG GTOL editor now found in SOLIDWORKS that allows for the intuitive and quick creation of geometric tolerance (GD&T/GPS) feature control frames based on a series of connected user choices.
Saturday, January 07, 2023
Friday, January 06, 2023
Thursday, January 05, 2023
Wednesday, January 04, 2023
Monday, January 02, 2023
Sunday, January 01, 2023
Movies I watched in 2022
2022 isn't a full return to form for the movie industry, but it's a good few steps forward. There was still a significant period of time for me where I just wasn't interested to see any movie in the theaters for weeks, if not months. Overall, though, I saw quite a number of movies. This won't be a review, per se. I'm just going to list what I saw with links for streaming if someone else wishes to see them now.