Dear Friends,

It is Friday the 13th, and for a moment there on my ride into work on the 1970 Norton, I thought it was my unlucky day. I was enjoying the leisurely ride in when some doofus decided to make a left turn right in front of me. Fortunately, that antique motorcycle is light and agile, and I was able to go wide around the guy in the shoulder. After uttering a few choice epitaphs and saluting the guy, I was back to enjoying the ride with nary a car in sight.

It is July, and Apple has promised to release the next version of OS X this month. One of the features that I am very excited about is AirPay Mirroring. While you can mirror most content from your iPad to your big screen TV through an Apple TV device, the same is not true with your Mac. Mountain Lion fixes this and will allow you to wirelessly stream your content from your Mac to your TV.

The last time I really wanted this feature was when I was doing a big Keynote presentation and wanted to practice while chilling on my couch. I ended up having to move the presentation over to the iPad to do what I wanted, and that was not all that easy. AirPlay Mirroring is coming to a Mac and living room later this month—it’s a great new feature of Mountain Lion!

I am fighting off the birds from my ripening blueberry bushes but it looks like a great crop this year. I look forward to waking up and going outside to pick a bowl of berries, put a little granola on it and call it breakfast. I know that it has been very hot and dry in most areas of the country and drought conditions in many. Here in the north country we have had a few very hot and humid days, but mostly we have had dry and seasonable temperatures with cool nights and sunny days. Kinda perfect if you ask me! My solar photovoltaic array at my house was commissioned this week and I watched as my electric meter spun backwards. I should get a good percentage of my power from this array—at least this time of the year!