Technology Blogs (217)

Helium and beryllium- strategic elements.The USA has most of these, as other places have concentrations of their own substances. Google these two, for their many essential uses. What a stupid...

3D Pen...You've probably heard of 3D printing where a filament of heated plastic is extruded to build up layers creating dimensional objects. Yes? They are use...

HE washer? I'm a frayed again...The condo I bought had an old washer & dryer. I didn't expect them to last long and I was right. Small capacity, they actually worked well, but they w...

Google Maps...We've grown to rely of Google for everything... well, mostly everything. I'm trying to resist as Google is invasive to the Nth degree. If I have an ad...

HTTP Error 503.2 - Service Unavailable...Now that millions of people are home under lockdown, it's safe to say the internet is on bandwidth overload. Many sites cannot handle the amount of in...

Networks, and network theory........links and nodes... Sure, concepts such as like sorts with like (homophily), contagion and resilience, she who has tends to beget more, falsehoods...

Fossil fuel fed electric power plants........ending their heyday?....Some (academic--so likely alt liberally biased-VERY biased) researchers claim that the costs of these operations will now...

A little common sense sure helpsMy home has a modern high efficiency furnace only a few years old and of course troubles so being the diy i am I made a go at it after studying the th...

Building a hospital in 10 days...I've seen video from China with a dozen or so tractors and earth moving equipment running around the clock and scheduled to build a hospital in 10 day...

usernamehi! hope this reached you in a good condition. lol. so i wrote this to ask if it is possible to edit or change my username. i’ve looked but didn’t see...

DRONEon episode 8...The subject is Obstacle avoidance. I was reminded about this feature as the Kobe Bryant crash on Sunday January 26 killed all nine aboard a Sikorsky S...

Uhura had the first Bluetooth...Star Trek came out in 1966. Uhura was the communications officer aboard the USS Enterprise. Her claim to fame is having the first Bluetooth. It was...

4.20...The wind is down and I'm charging batteries to catch a few model aircraft flights this morning. The batteries I use are lithium polymer or Li-Po for s...

laser etched diamonds...Two coworkers were talking about an expensive diamond ring purchased while on a cruise to the Caribbean. I asked if there was a chance of fraud and th...

Battle #2 With The Advertising AlgorithmsEarly in my relation with Amazon, I made the mistake of buying several items in my cart, just after a price increase. Apparently the algorithms decid...

predictive text blog...I fight with my phone because it tries to put words different than what I'm thinking. That was a struggle to say and the rest of this blog will be to...

OK, all you astute CS bloggers.........As hinted at, here it is. We all have to thank the founders of this great CS service for making our lives better in lots of ways. And doing so wit...

Right now, I'm grateful, here on my knees, and not in front of any burning bush.But the word is finally in, at the "too much money and time on hands" Consumers' Delectronics "group f-ck convention" in LV Nevada. Thank the Goddess,...

Pc / Laptop / Tablet / CellPhoneWe are in a New Technology world: Just about everything is possible with communications across the world, being a millisecond away: You are totall...

cellphone cords with the ability to hack...I read a story today that people who charge their cellphones in public places are at a high risk of being hacked... especially if the charging cord or...

DRONEon episode 6...When I talk about drones, some people think of a teenage boy flying over a neighbors back patio to capture video of the guys daughter or hot looking w...

The RAZR is back!Last week it was a leaked rumor. This week it's been confirmed. Motorola is bringing back the legendary RAZR flip-phone. Introduced in 2004, the RAZR...

Awesome Christmas ad 2019...

Updates...For many years, I've been using Firefox for my internet browser and update usually once every 3-4 months. In the past few months, it's been nagging fo...

Genius inventions...I'm in the middle of a YouTube marathon viewing stories about some amazing inventions. Thomas Edison patented (and marketed) the electric light tha...

and another thing that's annoying...Forms that clear all the data if one detail was missed. Lots of times we have to fill out forms online. When you get to the bottom and hit the sub...

Lies and Liars. What do we mean?To begin, we have to narrow and define what we would mean by a subjective object we are calling a "Lie". ( I cannot think of an objective manifestatio...

Lies and lying as a topic.We all at one time or another speak of lies and of liars, known and suspected. There is no shortage of persons that will offer their opinion that the...

Internet Speed Test...I'm at my home house in Miami for the weekend. Plans include sorting through 2 closets and 2 dressers of clothing to determine what I get to keep, wh...

Android 9 update...Yesterday, my cellphone carrier pushed through another update, from OREO, Android 8 to their current version PIE, Android 9. Maybe you're familiar...

Decibel...Decibel (dB) is a logarithmic unit to measure sound or electronic signal levels. For the purpose of this blog, I'll use it in audio... sound levels....

Tapping fingers...People are online... and it looks like all systems are up!...

The US and UK's relations with 'Huawei' are going sour.The US and UK are placing either restrictions or bans on 'Huawei's' development of 5G phone coverage in those countries. Are those actions to ultimate...