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2024-03-22 18:49
A good friend of mine in Canada has been out of work for almost a year. I spent this past weekend with him to commiserate and try to encourage, and as with every time I return to our home co… Read More
2024-03-13 17:56
Last fall, I wrote about the challenges driving our new PHEV for business, and how I was convinced that a ICE engine was still a requirement. It turns out that such conclusions may need to b… Read More
2024-02-23 20:04
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2024-02-04 19:58
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2024-01-31 00:07
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2024-01-13 16:05
I’ve heard a lot of complaints about 2023 being a tough year, but for our family, we don’t really have much bad to say for it. Compared to pandemic years, it was pretty great, in… Read More
2023-11-17 22:20
Last Friday night I thought I heard a meowing in the garage. I knew our cat was inside, so I looked around but found nothing. I assumed it was just a neighborhood stray (or Tigger’s ne… Read More
2023-11-17 13:35
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2023-10-08 10:46
We bought a second EV last week. This one is a PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid EV) — a 2018 Chevy Volt. Unlike our little run-about, this car will go the distance, thanks to its drive-train-conne… Read More
2023-09-27 15:18
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2023-09-13 21:06
I wrote a couple years ago that the move to Apple Silicon (and accompanying lock-down of their hardware ecosystem) was a last straw for me as a Mac user (and long-time fanboy.) I still have… Read More
2023-09-12 13:04
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2023-09-04 14:48
We moved here 8 years ago so I could accept a job I’d been recruited for, leading the development of some new ideas inside a staid industrial automation company. Those who’d put… Read More
2023-08-27 18:46
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2023-08-25 22:45
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2023-08-23 13:44
The boys went for a ride in plane that was almost 100 years old!
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2023-08-22 23:50
Abi and Eli got baptized this past Sunday, August 20, 2023. Our small church isn’t big enough to have this celebration regularly, so when we have a critical mass for a baptism service… Read More
2023-08-13 12:22
This summer, Ben got his first part time job. He’d had some work experience before, but just odd jobs. This was fast food — regular hours, a uniform, and a steady pay check. He w… Read More
2023-07-28 19:57
If you found a deal on a Growatt Shine WiFi adapter for your Solar Inverter, but are having trouble adding/viewing it on the Growatt Dashboard — and you live in the US, the problem is… Read More
2023-07-26 20:43
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2023-07-26 20:42
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2023-07-26 20:42
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2023-07-14 20:19
We got an electric car in 2021 — after years of pining for a Tesla (and cringing at the price tag), we picked up a used BMW i3 for a song. Putting a charger in the garage was remarkabl… Read More
2023-05-12 14:16
This website was started in 2000. I first made it as a place to get information about our upcoming wedding, but I’d been learning about databases and server-side programming, and by 20… Read More
2023-04-25 20:07
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2023-04-25 14:20
My first day of college, I was determined to put myself out there and make new friends. My strategy was simple, if I saw someone in at least two of my classes, I would introduce myself to th… Read More
2023-04-02 17:39
For the past decade, the tech world has been in a desperate search for the “next big thing.” PCs, the web, smart phones, and the Cloud have all sailed past their hype curve and s… Read More
2023-03-25 20:30
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2023-03-17 17:28
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2023-03-17 17:27
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2023-03-17 17:27
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2023-03-17 17:26
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2023-03-17 17:25
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2023-02-28 18:04
Autographed by Romero himself, the story of recalcitrant post-adolescents who changed computer games forever.
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2023-02-16 14:44
In 2018 I started tinkering with a dead mobile platform I’d long had an affinity for. I briefly had one of the devices around 2012 — only shortly after the platform was killed of… Read More
2023-02-01 17:45
A Man Called Ove is a brilliantly written and touching story of a grumpy old man who loves his Saab. Chapter 5 should be required reading for any creative writing class. I read it to my… Read More
2023-02-01 15:26
In retrospect, Facebook closing off their APIs might have been the original death knell of the social network. An API is an Application Programmer’s Interface — it provides a su… Read More
2023-01-15 19:02
Over 7000 people read Part 1 of this little diatribe. I didn’t do much to pimp it on social media, but someone did on my behalf, and it kinda blew up. I’m gratified, but not surp… Read More
2023-01-08 23:27
Technology has gotten objectively worse in the last few years.
I know I’m dangerously close to becoming an old man yelling at the Cloud. That every generation is uncomfortable with… Read More
2023-01-04 23:41
As of the end of 2022, we’ve lived in our house for 7.5 years. Never in our adult lives have we lived anywhere this long — nor did we imagine we would, or that if we did, it woul… Read More
2022-12-16 15:31
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2022-12-08 01:32
“When we design a computer that treats its user or owner as its adversary, we lay the groundwork for unimaginable acts of oppression and terror.” –Cory Doctorow
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2022-11-24 15:30
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2022-10-22 14:29
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2022-09-16 13:34
Few things in life are stranger than being driven around by the child you taught how to walk. Sitting in the passenger seat while Ben pilots one of our vehicles is more than a little terrify… Read More
2022-07-10 18:20
Devices that pre-date modern encryption are still on the Internet. They shouldn’t be used for anything that needs security, but there’s still valid use-cases for serving content… Read More
2022-06-29 21:35
Well, we finally got the kids to Europe! This is something we’ve had a general desire to do since before we had kids, and a specific intention to do since before Covid hit. It took a l… Read More
2022-06-21 15:54
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2022-06-17 15:49
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2022-06-15 15:46
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2022-06-14 18:36
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2022-06-14 15:49
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2022-06-14 15:23
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2022-06-14 07:39
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2022-06-14 07:38
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2022-06-14 07:38
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2022-06-14 07:37
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2022-05-29 12:06
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2022-05-27 21:37
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2022-05-26 12:06
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2022-05-22 19:24
I worked for Microsoft for 2 years before I finally got the nod to attend Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Aside from CES, MWC is the largest international event for consumer technology … Read More
2022-05-14 16:00
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2022-05-14 01:30
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2022-05-13 11:31
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2022-05-13 11:30
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2022-05-13 11:30
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2022-05-07 15:10
In our family, we’re preparing for our first teenage driver later this summer. Honestly, I’m excited about it — a significant portion of our afternoons and weekends is driv… Read More
2022-04-25 18:01
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2022-04-25 18:01
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2022-04-25 18:00
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2022-04-25 17:31
After two years with almost zero business travel (and not much of any other kind, either!) I was excited to hit the road again starting this spring. Business trips haven’t been blog-wo… Read More
2022-04-02 15:43
Nic and I got our first camera together a few months before our wedding — it was also our last film camera. I had a few digital cameras, but at the time, the quality was low and the pr… Read More
2022-04-01 13:00
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2022-03-29 12:30
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2022-03-21 16:01
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2022-03-06 19:06
Smart phones are getting interesting again — and I’m not talking about next week’s Apple event, where they’re sure to announce yet another set of incremental changes… Read More
2022-02-19 21:55
The tech bros have declared a new era of the Internet; they call it Web 3.0, or just web3. They claim this new era is about decentralization, but their claims are suspiciously linked to non… Read More
2022-02-05 16:36
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2022-02-05 16:36
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2022-02-02 12:29
The next tech company we’re redefining our relationship with is Amazon. We’re not breaking up, but we are going to set some more healthy boundaries with the A to Z company.
Am… Read More
2022-01-31 04:06
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2022-01-22 14:36
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2022-01-18 21:06
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2022-01-11 00:28
Its hard to remember the optimism with which we greeted 2021. Sure, Trumpian insanity was yet to peak, but the vaccine was here, people were getting it, and it really looked like we were abo… Read More
2021-12-23 21:53
In 2001: A Space Odyssey, the on-board artificial intelligence, named HAL 9000, logic bombs when its mission imperatives appear threatened by the behavior of the humans on-board. As a result… Read More
2021-12-20 02:24
The tech world’s latest villain is a woman named Elizabeth Holmes. You may have heard about her trial on the news, or maybe seen the documentary about her fall from grace. Maybe you ev… Read More
2021-12-17 00:06
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2021-12-15 19:25
Among my first exposures to Linux was in my freshman year at college. The first year curriculum for Computer Programmer/Analyst was not particularly challenging — they used it as a lev… Read More
2021-12-12 01:36
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2021-12-10 15:34
The original incarnation of the social network we know as Facebook was a bluntly misogynistic web app called “Facemash” designed to let frat boys rate how hot incoming freshman c… Read More
2021-12-03 02:24
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2021-12-03 02:24
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2021-12-02 16:54
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2021-11-24 12:25
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2021-11-17 15:00
There are a number of topics that I’d like to blog about, but I’m afraid our current cultural climate doesn’t leave room for the kind of nuance they’d require. Things… Read More
2021-10-31 21:51
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2021-10-16 13:48
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2021-10-13 01:31
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2021-10-13 00:31
Travel is a kind of crucible. Its a special set of challenges that not everyone has the stomach for, but it produces a kind of outcome that not everyone gets to enjoy. Air travel, in particu… Read More
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