Fixing our Macs
We have several old Macs in the house. Although I am eager to replace them with modern Apple Silicon based systems, they're still very usable computers. Or at least they should be. A year or so ago my wife's 24" iMac just stopped working one day. The machine that I bought to replace it for her, a 2017 13" MacBook Pro works fine... as long as its plugged [...]
Nissan LEAF Colors
There's been a lot of wondering I think, about whether or not the Nissan LEAF EV was going to offered in anything other than that blueish color they've been parading around. [...]
Building a 3D printer
I should start out by warning you that this is not a build-log. My friend Isaac reminded me that before we started this project, this was blogging gold, and he didn't have a [...]
Y’know, that one song… from the 50’s?
So last night I was looking for a song that I've heard a million times, but have never known the name of. It's an instrumental, and I'm pretty confident that you've heard it [...]
SparkFun Free Day Fallout.
Well, I tried, and everybody I know tried. None of us made it. It's unfortunate, but I don't think any of us are going to die. If you haven't heard about SparkFun Electronics' [...]
Weekend Project: Tree-Waterer
Christmas is upon us, and we have gotten ourselves a Christmas tree. My wife and I are dedicated Tree-Killers Live-Christmas-Tree-Advocates. We just like the feeling of a live [...]
Being a lousy advocate: Me and DRM
DRM, You've probably heard of it. Digital Rights Management. Bane of legitimate users, irritant of illigitimate users, hopeful tool of content owners. By those 3 statements, I [...]
The iPhone Dilemma
You know I'm an Apple nerd. No one who builds a Hackintosh and sticks it in a G4 cube should be considered anything less than such. Naturally you'll be able to guess that I'm [...]
The Second Coming of the Electric Car
I've had a love affair with the Electric Vehicle (EV) for a few years now. I wish I could say I found it on my own, but I really only got into after watching Who Killed the [...]
Waiting for the E-Reader war to heat up…
If you would have asked me about e-readers a year ago, I would have told you that I knew Sony made one, the Kindle was pretty awesome, and there were a bunch more that were [...]
But *my* phone already does that…