Category: 1024: Black History Month – Sojourner Truth; Managing your Apple ID; Over 1.21 Gigawatts

I have a bunch of housecleaning and stuff to do so Grace doesn’t think I am a total slob when she gets back from Honduras on Saturday. It is always tough to be apart from your partner when you have spent 50 years together but we will surely fall into our old comfortable habits quickly.…

p{text-align: center;}. !http://blog.smalldog.com/images/4994.jpg! I may have mentioned in my article last week that hydro power was always one of the things that fascinated me as a child. I grew up right on the Connecticut River in Massachusetts, right next to an old mill town complete with a dam and canals. For the most part, the…

p{text-align: center;}. !http://blog.smalldog.com/images/4995.jpg! Too many times when I am helping customers I get a blank stare when I ask for their Apple ID. Some quickly look through scraps of paper while others just start guessing. You Apple ID is the personal account you use to access Apple services like the App Store, iTunes Store, iCloud,…

Sojourner Truth was one of the most famous nineteenth-century black American women. She was an uneducated former slave who actively opposed slavery. Though she never learned to read or write, she became a moving speaker for black freedom and women’s rights. While many of her fellow black abolitionists spoke only to blacks, Truth spoke primarily…

_Dear Friends,_ Sometimes I take technology for granted. With Grace off in Honduras volunteering at a hospital for a couple weeks, I thought it was unlikely I would hear from her very often. Ten or twenty years ago the only way to communicate would have been an expensive phone call or a letter. But now,…