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Recovering a blog… for dummies

Part 1 – Dissolution

In 2023 I let my domain registration and hosting services lapse. I had owned jonmcosgrove.name since about 2013, and babylonman.com for even longer, perhaps since about 2010. Somewhere in there I also registered joncosgrove.com. All of which at one point or another was the dns pointing to my WordPress blog hosted at Bluehost.

For several years my activity was low but consistent. Then a few years ago posting consistency declined. The trend is clear in the post history. Continue reading “Recovering a blog… for dummies”

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

This year while reading online about improving data graphics I kept coming across the name Edward Tufte. He is a professor interested in the topic and from what I gather has written 3 of the most influential books on the topic. Since I make a lot of plots and data graphics at work as a way to help understand system interactions and describe problems or system performance to others, I decided to buy two of the most well regarded:

  1. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
  2. Envisioning Information

Reading these led to me spending a few evenings (over 3 weeks!) making a modern version of one of my favorite graphics seen in the books.

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