All about electronic gadgets and goodies that we use for work and fun.
*** Note: Christmas 2021 update – This post was written long before the Geocaching app came out for cell phones. We used GSAK to do the paperless stuff and lugged around a netbook to do what you can do today (2021) with a cell phone. Aside from a few technical issues, we spent a few … Read more
In case your Administrator account can’t seem to edit stuff it’s “supposed” to edit… Just wasted nearly half an hour trying to mod my hosts file on my vista laptop… ya I know… why run vista when I could run a flavor of Linux… Truthfully I have a few Linux boxes here on the network, … Read more
In the words of Timbuk 3 “The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades“… I updated the software that runs this blog last night and can’t help but marvel at how connected we are. Yes, I’m a technology geek… always have been. We’ve gotten to a point where we take for granted things that were … Read more
Well, since things are slow around here… I’ll talk a bit about one of my ham radio projects. I built a balun last week… For those of you who are ham operators you know what a balun is… for those who are not: a balun is a device used to match a balanced antenna to … Read more
The pictures from our trip have been stuck on the laptop for a while. For some reason my large removable drive doesn’t connect properly to the laptop so I had to work hard to get the pictures into our archive and onto a machine we can use to create a DVD. I’m using hard drive … Read more