Wygle Wide Web

A quiet field journal of digital archaeology. Reconstructing a life from 25+ years of digital traces, with occasional help from ChatGPT when things get weird or surprising.

Day: September 6, 2026

  • Ten Slides, Ten Minutes

    In 2006 I misunderstood a ten-slide PowerPoint assignment as a ten-minute presentation, built a sprawling history of the captains of the Enterprise overnight, and accidentally created one of my favorite stories about myself.

  • Random Date Archaeology #13: The Job That Wasn’t a Job

    Friday, October 20, 2006 The randomizer dropped me on Friday, October 20, 2006, and at first there didn’t appear to be much there. No Blogger post. My Blogger archive doesn’t even start until a month later. No obvious LiveJournal artifact turned up. Gmail had a few things—a Mars Hill newsletter, some family email, administrative stuff…