June 25, 2022
June 25, 2022 I am adrift in the national sea of nothingness as we approach the maelstrom. Everything is falling to pieces everywhere and Americans sit blandly doing nothing while 11,494,000 jobs go unfilled. I doubt this curve goes up any higher. Despite all the jobs supposedly available, I haven’t been able to find […]
Content analysis for tech companies
Content analysis for tech companies A lot of the tech sites I look at have their essential content buried behind a barrier of complex technical writing. What I do as a technical copywriter is to is to emphasize the unique selling points that set a company apart from competitors. I analyze a company’s content from […]
O-PTIR
I got this email blast from Photothermal Spectroscopy Corp: Dear Colin Campbell, please Dr Ferenc Borondics, Principal Beamline Scientist at the SIMS Beamline, Soleil Synchrotron, France to hear about how cutting edge IR spectroscopic tools, such as the breakthrough technique of Optical Photothermal Infrared (O-PTIR) is being used by users from a wide range of […]
Startup Circle
Six local tech companies gave five-minute elevator pitches to 40 of us at the Science & Tech Talks meetup of the Startup Circle group. I’ve been attending the meetings since I arrived in Santa Barbara in 2019. I was just beginning to get to know people when the Pandemic struck. In this photo, I’m the […]
Time for a re-assessment.
After all the frenzy of switching to the m1 Mac Mini, I’m slowly revving down from geek mode into normality with the new computer. I’m planning my re-entry into the Santa Barbara web production marketplace. I’m a resource for web shops that don’t have a copywriter on staff. But it’s wrong for me to think […]
Captain’s log, star date Gregorian calendar
Approaching planet Earth with a newly refurbished website. Huh, I Googled “log” and the first hit is: “natural logarithm.” I would have expected the first definition to be “a long piece of a tree trunk.” Yes, in the dictionary. The second definition is the one we’re looking for: 2. Log (Nautical)a. A device trailed from […]
I wrote a new story
Had a sudden new idea for a sci-fi story and it kept me up late the other night. I’ve only had this happen a few times before… I jotted down the idea and went to bed, and the idea kept popping back up with further ramifications and I kept having to get up and write […]
Google Search site transfer verification
Colin.org is now 12 pages in WordPress, plus 2,396 of my previous pages that I wrote in HTML/CSS. Ever since I transferred to a new host away from GoDaddy, I haven’t been getting many visitors to my old pages. Nothing personal, it wasn’t that Google decided I was no longer worth searching. It was my […]
I ditched GoDaddy
Earlier this year colin.org was red-flagged for not being secure. I’ve been running colin.org for 25 years as a portfolio site displaying my previous projects. Security was never an issue in the past. But times change and these days you need an SSL certificate. My internet service provider was GoDaddy. They said they could add […]
Coping with my new computer
My old iMac wasn’t really that bad, but Apple’s new system-on-a-chip computers are a turning point in technology and I wanted to get aboard. It’s the 16th Macintosh I’ve bought in 34 years. The graphics card and the memory and the central processing unit are all on the same chip and they intertwine far faster […]