Category: General

There are a number of calculators out there for determining the rebate one can expect from the recently passed stimulus package, of course these all require you to give your income over to some website. Couple that with the pervasive tracking going on nowadays, you just told Facebook, Google and lord knows how many others…

I was told that it is very easy to setup and turns out it is. Logging into this site via the SQRL protocol is now available. To find out more check out the information site at www.grc.com/sqrl. It really is quite amazing how it works and it does just work. If you have an existing…

So here I am quite a bit later and finally getting an update out here. Have to get better at this. Update, the car is going quite well, crossed over 60000 miles a couple weeks ago and still showing 12 bars of capacity. I don’t expect that to last a lot longer though, when I…

So the Odyssey van was starting to fail, transmission was failing and cost to repair was about 4 times the value of the car in good shape, time to update. I had been considering an electric vehicle for a while, looking around I found a used 2013 Nissan Leaf on sale at the dealer, a…

Picked up the movie tonight and we are enjoying again, this is well done with a lot to pick up on subsequent viewings.

Tooling along the road the other day and noticed that I had reached a milestone in my car:

All these years we figure Microsoft Windows performed poorly on other hardware was because of the many permutations of that it had to deal with, well the Surface Pro 3 I recently got at work dispels that notion. It’s biggest failing is that once the device goes into hibernation it never comes back out, have…

I have been happily using chrome for years now but today they have seen fit to break the application and send me back to Firefox. I found that there are now some pages for which scrolling does not work correctly. Wheel scrolling can be fixed for some by adding an exception but that did not…

I stopped by the house site on Wednesday to find two of Cedar Crests people there, George and George. They were putting together the first wall, the outer wall for the Office and Grant’s room. They also covered all of the concrete with plastic sheeting and kraft paper to protect it. Will have some pictures…

This is too cool, just found out this weekend that Kathleen’s and mine wedding anniversary falls on same day as the first broadcast of the radio drama of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. I could not think of a better thing to share that day with.

HSBC funds drug dealers and terrorists to the tune of many billions of dollars and they are fined, what, 1.9 billion? Sure a lot to you and me but to them, but for a company with assets of 2,721 billion dollars (that is 2.721 TRILLION dollars or 2,721,000,000,000) and a market cap of 201 billion…

The Logitech Harmony Remote (mine is model 700) is really a nice piece of technology. Unfortunately in order to make it usable it requires the Harmony software which is to be generous, not very good. When it works then it all is well but there many times when it is slow, kludgy, confusing or simply…

So here is the first line from a statement I saw today: Blogger is now the most popular content management system Sounds pretty good for BLogger I bet they are happy about this assessment. Now when the rest of the statement is seen it does not sound so good for Blogger. Blogger is now the…

First of all watch what you mouse over when checking comments. I was just moving the mouse over to the Empty Spam button and a popup came up, the homepage link had javascript in it which brought up a small window. Be careful here, you never know what that popup will lead you to. And…

Badly needed to get the oil changed so I went to the Speedylube that is associated with the dealer. I am given two choices, about 43 for just a change or 50 for the Eco option. I am told Eco means that they will recycle the oil. These places have been recycling oil for years,…