On 10/27 at 2:30am, just 30 minutes before I needed to dial in to work to do an important maintenance, my personal computer did the worst thing possible: the hard disk shat its bed and died. Completely gone. Blindingly unreadable. I was sunk. All my data! This machine is mission-control for what I do in …
Category Archives: Technology
Hemisphere
There is still magic in the air. One must be a receiver to pick up on it. Right? For what it’s worth, 6060KHz is also known as Radio Habana Cuba. The magic of shortwave radio is that its broadcasts carry a long, long way. I’m able to hear broadcasts that happen in certain spots in …
English (US)
Picked up a Samsung Galaxy Tab E tablet a month ago. My big Logitech bluetooth keyboard works with it OK, but it created this stupid, annoying problem: every time I started typing, if I was the least bit sloppy with my shift key finger (left pinky) while pressing the spacebar (such as pressing space after …
More Blue Toys
I’m ever-acquiring more Bluetooth gee-gaws. I’ve been wanting a larger Bluetooth keyboard than what I had for, y’know, stuff, but really was kinda balking at paying more than $50 for something I may or may not use. So, uh, I found this: So far, so good. Space key is a little hard to smack (as are …
Touch, Type
So, this is a post made with this tiny little Bluetooth keyboard and my cellphone. It’s impossible to touch type with it, but it’s slightly faster than Swipe. Maybe I can get fast with it. Who knows? I certainly won’t be penning any Pulitzer prize papers with it, that’s for sure. I even discovered that …