Category: 1018: CES 2017 Recap, How To Enter Emoji On A Mac, Breadboard Breakdown

It was great to get back home to Key West after the show although the island had a big power and internet outage that seems to have done some damage. Our phones at Small Dog were out for a couple of days and a bunch of my home automation gear had to be reset. I…

Because I’m kind of a nut for all this electronics stuff, I have a few old PCI cards sitting next to my desk as office decoration. One of them is a 4MB VGA graphics card from ~15 years ago. Another is a 10/100 ethernet card from roughly the same vintage. They are useless today, but…

I remember the first day I got a new computer, ok a new-to-me computer. It was a hand-me-down PC of sorts. I think it ran some DOS operating system and the screen was always orange. AOL had just come out and I loved nothing more than the sound of my modem and the eventual entry…

As many of you know, I read a lot of science fiction and one of the things that constantly amazes me is how quickly science fiction turns to science fact. Self-driving cars, drones, tablets, smartphones and smart homes were all the stuff of sci-fi- but now are almost commonplace. I remember just 5 years ago…