Category: Technology
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Dell Hell… Again?
I just had the most amazing experience with @DellCares. I decided to buy one of their new XPS 13 2-in-1 laptops and wanted to buy a specific accessory advertised on the laptop’s product page. I searched everywhere. No dice. Jump on live chat. Told that it isn’t on Dell.com yet—can call/chat with accessories and they…
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Back to Basics
I found myself hesitant to post short little posts like this because I didn’t want them to get automatically posted to Facebook or Twitter with the default messaging. So, I turned that off. The open web is something I’ve been worried about losing and with the upcoming development of micro.blog, I want to start posting…
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Spam Everywhere
I logged into Google Analytics for a site that I never touch anymore with no real traffic. The dashboard with the browser languages of my visitors was quite depressing.
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New WiFi
I swapped my old WiFi access points that never really worked that well together for a pair of Google WiFi mesh network APs. No complaints so far. I always anticipate WiFi connection issues will hit at some point, so I named the primary network “xmlrpc”. The guest network is welcometomy.casa, which, you guessed it, is…
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Mueller: Kitty Hawk of Self-Driving Cars
Google announced this week that it spun off their self-driving car division into a new company within the Alphabet umbrella, Waymo. With the announcement, they also announced that they completed the first driverless event on a public roadway—transporting a blind gentleman alone in the car—in 2015 in my neighborhood. I’ve enjoyed our little Google Waymo friends…
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It Begins!
The service isn’t on yet—they still need to lay their fiber to the house—but it is coming. We already have AT&T’s Gigabit service—for three years now—but Fiber is cheaper and I’m ready for a change since having AT&T for eight years as an ISP. It isn’t lost on me that we’ve gone from AT&T for…