Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Backing up My iCloud Photos

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I'm a regular user of Photos in my Mac and iPhone.  It's nice having years of photos all available whenever I need them.  The bigges...
Sunday, December 04, 2016

It Didn't Work for Me: Automatic

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I hate to give a bad review, but when a gadget has consistently failed, support calls didn't improve anything, and it finally broke, I...
Thursday, September 22, 2016

Shared Desktop and Documents on macOS Sierra

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One of the featured items of macOS Sierra is the ability to share your desktop and Documents folders via iCloud.  It's great for me, b...
Friday, September 16, 2016

Memories — The Best New feature of IOS 10

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Many features of the new iOS 10 from Apple are nice.  Some are "Well, okay.  I can live with that." But the one that has blown m...
Friday, May 06, 2016

Where are the Electric Cars for Travelers?

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Today on my news feed, I read some article about how the new Tesla was going to charge extra for an  additional 19 miles range over their st...
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Thursday, March 24, 2016

My Fictional Net, and Encryption

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When I began the multi-book storyline, The Project Saga , I had the opportunity to re-invent the Internet from scratch.  Or rather my self...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

My Pocket Backup for Mac

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I have many backups.  I'm a little obsessive about it.  I have Time Machine running on my laptop to an external drive.  I have Carbon Co...
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Apple's Photos App is Disappointing

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I had high hopes for the new Photos app on OS X that was intended to replace both iPhoto and Aperture.  I spent quite a few weeks processing...
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Internet Frustrations

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I have several websites, some of them blogs like this one. Yes, I know, I should have only one and concentrate on that.  But things change. ...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

My Favorite Book

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As a writer sitting at my table, showing off all the books I’ve written, I frequently get asked, “What’s your favorite book?”  That’s a v...
Thursday, December 04, 2014

It's Getting Crowded in the Batcave

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I'm not going to talk about Batman, it was just too good a title.  But how about the Flash?  I've been watching the numerous superhe...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Time to Mow

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My schedule is... complex.  Yard work does not have as high a priority as watching my grandson, or getting the next book ready to publish....
Saturday, May 17, 2014

Testing a Chromebook

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Stopping off at Office Depot to pick up some ink cartridges, I notice a Samsung chromebook on display for two hundred and some dollars.  W...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

Switching Websites

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For longer than I can remember, I've had a website.  Before websites, I had a Gopher site, if you have any idea what that was.  But as t...
Saturday, December 14, 2013

How Walgreens Lost my Business

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This is uncomfortable.  I'm not a person who gripes a lot.  But I've tried to accommodate Walgreens customer card, and it's not ...
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

A Genre Writer

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Occasionally, when I meet people outside of conventions, AKA, in real life, and they find out I'm a writer, they ask what kind of stuff ...
Wednesday, July 03, 2013

Things That Work: My Jeep Wrangler at 300,000 Miles

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I was at work, so my boy Thomas and my wife Mary Ann picked out my new car, a 97 dark green Jeep Wrangler.  All I had to do was drive it o...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Revisiting TV

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For a number of years now, I've been collecting videos.  This is hardly unusual, most people do.  Over time, however, I had collected ne...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Apple Map Updates

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I was amused by the recent Australian map problem, where a city was marked in the wrong location.  A one or two day flash of bad PR and the ...
Friday, November 23, 2012

The Enchantment of Sail

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This week my sailing novel is out, Breaking Anchor .  Yes, it is science fiction.  That's how my brain is wired, but sailing has found...
Saturday, September 29, 2012

The New Apple Maps

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I loved the old Maps program, based on the Google database, but I love the new one so much more.  At the time I'm writing this, I'm ...
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Friday, September 14, 2012

Backing up Beartooth

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I almost wrote "Backing up Bluetooth" which would have been an entirely different article. In preparation for this cross country...
Thursday, September 13, 2012

Dreams, Lucid and Otherwise

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One of my most useful writing tools is the lucid dream. It's a halfway state between wakefulness and random dreaming, where I can set t...
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

The Memories Come First

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Writing fiction, like I do, is process of revelation. We’ve all heard it asked, either as writers ourselves, or listening to the fans appro...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Why I Wrote “Emperor Dad”

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My life changed. Taking a risk, I had accepted an early retirement offer from the company where I had worked for twenty-some years. The co...
Monday, July 09, 2012

Making Sell Sheets for My Books

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I was updating my sell sheets, in preparation for some more face time with book store people, when it occurred to me that maybe  I hadn'...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Star Time Book Trailer

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Seeing Bill Crider's latest book trailer inspired me to go tackle making one myself.  This is for Star Time .  It's really in HD, bu...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Movie Comments: Paul

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I had gotten a couple of comments from people wondering if my novel Roswell or Bust was like the movie Paul.   Since I had not seen the mov...
Sunday, June 10, 2012

International Prices for My E-books

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I had considered dropping support for some of the ebook marketplaces as I released my latest book. Amazon Kindle and B&N Pubit are easy ...
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Friday, June 08, 2012

My Venus Transit Event

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My older brother Roger had a telescope, a six-inch Newtonian he built himself.  I have fond memories of hauling it out and projecting the su...