Back in the days of telegraphy when operators transmitted dots and dashes to form letters and words, they came up with a shorthand for...

That’s the General Class Amateur Radio Operator, the next level above Technician which I passed about a month ago. I figured I would...

I am now officially KG7LEA for the next ten years! A week ago I took and passed my amateur radio Technician Class exam, one wrong answer...

The four-engine plane carried 15 persons, nine crew and six passengers and nary a trace was ever found. One passenger, a Chinese-American...

I looked back and realized that I did not finish my adventure with my new Roku box. To replay, I ordered a Roku 3 to replace the Roku so...

I learned how to follow topics with the use of hashtags. In this case #Crimea will bring up every tweet involving the crisis between...

I’m not going to quit Twitter, but I doubt that I will spend time tweeting nor will I assemble a following. I can get all the important...

I am experimenting with Twitter. I don’t have a particular need for tweeting, but I felt compelled to learn more after an emergency in...

Remember when, for two weeks in December, the truck pulled up in front of the house to deliver that package from the grandparents?  That...

I often consider what normal features of daily life would be incomprehensible 20 or even 10 years ago – smart phones, tablets, online...

Rather than get into a TLDR situation, I’m going to break things up. How to listen to audio books and podcasts. Most listening these days...

Today I bought and I sold via Amazon.com. I tried to buy toys for my grandsons the old fashioned way, but when I got there, the toy store...

I usually have two books going at once, one a work of fiction and the other some kind of history book. With the Kindle I can have three...

In 1963, I heard a single by the surf rock band, the Marketts, called “Out of Limits”. I like the fast paced, heavy bass of the music and...

I just completed a couple of desktop home movie projects, another genre of the technology revolution. I was a participant in the growth...

I am reading the biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson which I recommend from a number of viewpoints. First, it’s well researched...

Yes, an entire year since the last post. Not that I haven’t had anything to write, I just haven’t written it here. Here’s hoping I do...

The unfortunate passing of Steve Jobs has highlighted his accomplishments and his vision. But one bit of of his wisdom might require some...

The recent kerfuffle over the dismissal of a civil servant who was framed by a doctored video underscores something I’ve believed for a...

I get irritated with the clamor to ban offshore oil drilling because of the current disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. I wish people would...