Topics of Particular Interest

Whether currently thriving or long since kaput, these things have held my attention for a span.

Birds

Spark bird: Ruby-crowned Kinglet. Favorite bird: Volant. Last life bird: Indian Peafowl. Last life bird (excluding naturalized exotics): Whooper Swan.

Radio

Long a fascination. AM. FM. Shortwave. Ham. College. Public. Mesh.

MaineSat

mainesat.org was inspired by the development of Maine's first CubeSat and remains the best source of information on it.

Computing

What is. What might have been. What will be. Beep boop bop.

Nature

Beyond birds, I know a little something about this and that. I sometimes use iNaturalist for identification and recordkeeping.

Weather

I started contributing precipitation reports to the CoCoRaHS program on January 1, 2017, and am still at it.

Genealogy

I'm a Richardson. To dig deeper, the door is ajar to our online genealogical closet.

Blogging

I started with Blogger in 2005, then made forays into Textpattern and Drupal while searching for an independent alternative. When CMS upkeep became more bane than blessing, I gravitated back to the behemoth. In 2025, motivated to distance myself from Google, I investigated static-site generators. Eleventy was welcoming and actively maintained. It seemed manageable. So far, it is.

DotME Media

Envisioned as a Maine family of community-based independent information sources, piloted with berwick.me, and eventually jettisoned. "I learned a lot."

NOTES

This page was originally called "Projects."
Last modified: Recently.