I have been playing with Facebook (FB) for about two months now. I have developed mixed feelings about the so called networking service. First I never trust anything free. There is always a reason for something like this to be given away. This holds for other networking services such as LinkedIn and all the rest of its kind. There is a definite reason behind this entire personal information gathering. Don’t lie to yourself and pretend...
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iPhone Gizmo
What a joke. What ever happened to battery life? The iPhone is a wonderful gizmo that happens to include a phone. But I have to drag my charging cord wherever I go. I don’t get or make that many calls but all the other tricks this gizmo will do just eats stored electrons like me with a bag of spicy jellybeans. The bottom of the bag shows up way too soon. My old phone,which was only a phone,...
Continue reading...My Anchorage Project
Many readers of this blog know I did a project for my company (Then TAC, now Schneider Electric) in Anchorage, Alaska. It was for the US Government, the FAA to be precise, at the Air Route Traffic Controll Center located there. This was one of the most enjoyable projects I have ever run. I am not able to show pictures of the project, but all the sight seeing I did while there is linked from this...
Continue reading...Canary Islands
I just sent some machine gears to the Canary Islands. You have heard of that place. Little islands in the Atlantic off the coast of Africa. What I found interesting was the gear order was from Spain. I was naturally thinking of mainland Spain. The city name was Guimar and that didn’t cause me any excitement. The name of the Spanish state was Tenerife. That sounded familiar but I didn’t know why. (Site of the...
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