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If you are watching Severance, then you know there is an iconic exterior shot. I almost choked when I looked at it and realized that not only had I worked in that building, but so had my Dad and brother. But, it is in Holmdel, NJ and was the site of so many inventions when…

There are definitely bad builds of UniFi. I hit this terribly with the 1.09 release which caused all sorts of troubles, so before you update, you do want to check to see if others have had problems. Here is what I do: I turn off automatic updates on all my Ubiquiti installations and only do…

OK, we just had an interesting network event. Last week, we got a backup cellular connection for our home network since we are doing Work From Home (WFH) so much. Well it turns out it worked so well that we are seeing micro outages with Comcast Xfinity for a minute or so. I think these…

If sometimes you see mysteriously a calendar event arrive in Google, that’s because it is looking for email and it tries to interpret it for things like air travel and events. This actually works decently well except when someone forwards their itinerary, things can get confusing. You can turn this off if you want in…

Well now that we seem to be getting back to traveling again. Calvin asked what’s a good set of carry on luggage to get. Well I’ve had lots of carry ins over the years and here are some observations: You get what you pay for. Yes you can get $50 luggage but most likely it…

OK, so one of the great things about Android is how many attachments there are via the USB C port. There are not a lot of real choices here the two big ones are FLIR and Seek according to Digital Camera World and Industrial Reviews as well as TEquipment on Youtube Seek Thermal CompactPRO. This…

Well we use Silicon Valley Bank for most of our company banking. It’s a habit because they’ve been so good to us over the years. But, their business account system is pretty hard to navigate. The user interface is deep and there are menus after menus, so here are some notes on some common things…

For a long time, I’ve kept all my tools in various horrible places and they are stacked everywhere. I’ve always wanted a real pro tool cabinet where everything can be in one place. These things are super heavy if they are good, so it’s a good idea to get them locally and find a car…

Man it’s just about impossible to figure out what syncs with what and it is always changing what works with what, but the basic problem is that I have no less than six different main places where I’m tracking my workouts and it is so confusing which are and the syncing sort of works, but…

Wow, I can’t believe Universal Control actually works and it is remarkable. First of all the setup is pretty complicated. Here is what you need to do to get this to work: Update iPadOS 15.4 and MacOS 12.4. This means go to System Preferences in MacOS and choose update and Settings/About for iPadOS. Then you…