Ethan ⁽³²⁾

A couple weeks ago, there was a Forbes article that caught my eye. (No, librarians, it wasn't that twaddle, please don't hurt me) No, it was this one, relating one writer/podcaster's decision to switch to Linux as his everyday operating system after a few too…

I know, I hate to break it to you. I'm not thrilled about it either - one of my favorite memories from high school is walking straight up to my Statistics teacher on the last day of senior year and proudly announcing that it was…

A couple of times at NYU, a new student would ask me what kind of laptop I would recommend for courses and professional use in video and digital preservation. Maybe their personal one had just died and they were shopping for something new. Often they'd…

In case it's ever unclear, writing these blog posts is as much for me as it is for you, dear reader. Technical audiovisual and digital concepts are hard to wrap your head around, and for a myriad of reasons technical writing is frequently no help.

Last fall I wrote about the collaborative technical/scholarly process of making some '90s multimedia CD-ROMs available for a Cinema Studies course on Interactive Cinema. I elided much of the technical process of setting up a legacy operating system environment in an emulator, since my focus…