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Continue reading →: Reward point redemptions
Well this has gotten trickier and trickier. It used to be that if you wanted to get a trip on United, then you would have to accumulate United Mileage Plus points at 1 per mile and you were off and to the races. Now this has gotten really complicated so…
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Continue reading →: Why can't I get a USB C Charger at 87 watts
Well first of all I don’t really understand why a MacBook Pro 15″ needs 87 watts (what a weird number), but also all the charges I’ve been looking at stop at 60 watts for some reason. So on to figure out why this is true. Turns out it has to…
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Continue reading →: Digital Workflow 2018
OK back two years ago, I wrote about my workflow and it hasn’t changed much since then mainly because I stopped archiving photos. The main reason was that Vuescan kept hanging with macOS Sierra and that was really annoying. For whatever reason the latest Vuescan and High Sierra seem to get…
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New Pearls of wisdom
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Continue reading →: New Pearls of wisdomSeems like forever that I’ve been collecting various pearls of wisdom with literally no place to put them. Writing a book is actually a pretty involved process and then you have to get on the road and consult and give speeches, I was inspired by all the many things up…
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Continue reading →: Staying safe and keeping your bike going
If you’ve got a regular commuter bike and you are trying to survive the long winters without rusty chains or getting (heaven forbid) hit by a driver, here are some things to get: Puroma Bike cover. The snow and the wet are murder on a bike, so if you can…
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Continue reading →: Low cost sim's when overseas (like New Zealand)
Well, T-Mobile free roaming actually works incredibly well in so many countries. It’s a bit slow, but it works. And if you pay $5 to Skype, then you can even get very low cost (two cents per minute calls to the US or free to toll free numbers). Or try…
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Continue reading →: Protecting yourself from Unauthorized Porting
Now that so much of lives are tied to mobile phones, one of the key things to do is to protect yourself against number porting thieves. This is a dastardly plot where an identity thief gathers enough personal data (SSN, Mothers Maiden Name) to be able to port your number.…
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Continue reading →: Tesla and Bolt Cold EV Performance
Well if you are even mildly cold temperatures like 32F, we’ve found that range falls significantly. There are quite a few factors but a very smart guy at Tesla Motors Club lays it out well: Preheat your battery. Turn your range mode off on the Tesla, turn cabin heat on…
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Continue reading →: Quick notes on photo scanning, securing and backing up Synology
OK, some quick notes on the logistics of managing the home IT. It’s a real job 🙂 I never could get the Synology DS-212J to work. It is so frustrating. I’m pretty sure there is a firmware bug, but can’t prove. The symptoms are that it worked fine, I did…
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Continue reading →: Getting rid of expressvpn.tun, fixing VMware Fusion and Mac OS Fuse X
This has been bothering me for a while, this takes up a High Sierra device slot and so you can’t run VirtualBox, VMWare Fusion, OS X Fuse with this loaded. And I keep getting the error “No peer process to connect to”. There is a red herring that has to…