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Continue reading →: AirPod Pros
Hat tip to link.medium.com/xGVmJPWus1 Yes they cost a ridiculous $250 for a set of tiny earphones but I can’t wait to try them. The noise cancelling seems like a great feature. The current AirPods are super convenient. I just love how that convenient they are. The pairing just seems to…
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Continue reading →: Switching to Disqus and Tags in prep for WordPress to Ghost migration
Well about to experiment with using Ghost as a blogging platform so it’s a good time to do some basics with tongfamily.com: Installing Disqus. After you create a login on Disqus, look at the at the tutorial, but basically you install the Disqus Plugin. I actually used a third party…
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Continue reading →: Best Websites for Searching Star Alliance Award Availability
Looking to book an award flight on a Star Alliance carrier? These are the best websites to use to find availability. The short answer is that ANA is the most accurate for figuring out availability if a little hard to read. Then comes Air Canada. The United site unfortunately often…
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Continue reading →: Fixing WordPress crashes on DigitalOcean Droplet
OK I get this about three weeks or so on our new DigitalOcean Droplet running WordPress. The good news is the JetPack does inform you when it dies. TL;dr If you have your WordPress created with the one-click Droplet under DigitalOcean it works great except that there is no swapfile,…
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Continue reading →: What’s all this then about MacBook Pro and their cons
Mark sent me a note from some random person about how MacBook Pro’s are the stepchildren of the Apple world. The complaints which I’ve heard quite a bit come down to: The keyboard isn’t great. The updates have been slow. It doesn’t have enough ports with only USB C. I’ll…
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Continue reading →: Update on sunglasses Julbo Aero Pro Zebra Light now the Julbo Aero Segment
Well, I’ve really loved the Julbo Aero Pro with photochromic lenses. I got them for $105 on Amazon which I now realize was an incredible deal from Backcountry as a closeout. Sad to say. But the aero pro with zebra light is really good. I got the ones which were…
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Continue reading →: End of Summer: Things for Hiking
OK after a whole summer of hiking, this is a good time to pick up all those vital things that you can forget about. Here’s a reminder of real necessities when hiking: Trekking Poles. Yes, they really do help the knees Microspikes. You don’t need them until you need them,…
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Continue reading →: Light and Sound helps Alzheimers
link.medium.com/9jatcGRSYZ shows some incredible new results. It is only with mice, but some research shows that the right light and sound flashing at 40 hertz can reduce Alzheimers how is that possible???
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Continue reading →: Buying a bike for someone getting serious
Pradeep asked me other day what bike to get for someone who is fit and where you want them to love biking. Well there are many choices here but if you are fit and maybe someday want to do the Seattle to Portland or you are generous enough to want…
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Continue reading →: Lightsail Multisite WordPress Tips and Tricks
OK, we’ve had this domain sort of working for the last month and here are some tips and tricks for doing this Multisite Fixing Security: SSH Keys Using your own SSH keys. Lightsail is really convenient. By default it creates an SSH key pair for every region that you have.…