January 7, 2025

Jim Rowson passed away on December 26. There will be an online memorial for family, friends, and colleagues on Saturday, January 18 at 2:00pm. The Zoom link will be sent separately to our mailing list. If you don’t receive the email and you’d like to attend, please visit https://arrgle.com on Saturday morning for the link. Please do not…

December 31, 2024

“Celebrate while you still can Cause any second it may end . . .” – Oingo Boingo, No One Lives Forever Jim Rowson passed away peacefully on December 26, 2024 at age 70 from fucking cancer. (That was his term for it, and the fucking cancer deserved the abuse, the sneaky bastard.) He was a visionary…

December 17, 2024

Spotify Wrapped, King Gizzard, and the year’s best songs Spotify Wrapped kinda sucked in 2024, missing a bunch of the cool info from previous years about genres and favorite albums and more. Did you notice? Spotify ended 2023 with massive layoffs, including Scott Macdonald, the person whose insights about data analysis and genres was apparently…

December 3, 2024

Remember browser home pages? You do? I wouldn’t have guessed, you must be older than you look. All the rest of you children, gather round the fire, let me take you back to a simpler time when we still said “World Wide Web” and you could hear the capital letters. In the early days of…