What Is the Ultimate Button?
One of my post popular books is Home Attitude: Everything You Need To Know To Make Your Home Smart. There are, admittedly, mixed opinions about making your house smart. Some people, including my wife of 53 years, prefer a not-so-smart house where you can pull a lamp chain, flip a switch, visit doors and windows when […]
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Vaccine I got my Moderna Booster shot on September 9. Some side effects on the day after but a small price to pay for the extra protection. The latest data I have seen shows 6.06 billion doses have been administered resulting in 2.54 billion people fully vaccinated. That makes 32.6%. A long way to go, […]
Is Subway Surfing Stealing?
Written: June 22, 2002 Edited: September 9, 2021 Hard to believe but when I was evangelizing Wi-Fi, there were many critics. NY Times featured an article saying Wi-Fi was a fad and it would go away. I wrote the following story 19 years ago. I was driving down Main Street in a small New England […]
Will Leather Wallets Become a Thing of the Past?
The Apple Wallet app is built into the iPhone. You don’t have to use it, but you can’t get rid of it either. I suspect most of us will end up using it much more in the days ahead. I use the Wallet app mostly on my Apple Watch. Currently, my Wallet contains the following: […]
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Space SpaceX’s newest drone ship returned to Florida port after its 1st rocket landing at sea. The rocket made a perfect landing coming down through the clouds in the dark. The new ship is named “A Shortfall of Gravitas”. The SpaceX Dragon haul of scientific experiments and supplies to the International Space Station was successful. […]
