To celebrate the 30th birthday of Windows, I figured it was time to share my own thoughts on the operating system. With the Threshold 2 build of Windows 10 (build 10586) and the third generation of Surface devices (Surface Pro 3, Surface 3 LTE), Microsoft is winning me back. For those that know me well... Continue Reading →
An Almost 50-year Old Bentley and the RROC Fall Tour
Driving 1,200 miles in a week in a British car that rolled off the production line ~49 years ago may seem like a crazy thing to do. But it's not considering the car - a 1966 Bentley T1 - and the event, which was the Fall Tour of the Rolls-Royce Owner's club - held throughout... Continue Reading →
Misadventures in Home Networking (or creating house-wide 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz coverage)
One of the perils of having a large square footage house built in the 1980s is that it is impossible to get WiFi coverage from a single access point. And there is no Ethernet wiring in the walls. This is the tale of how I actually got this problem reliably resolved such that there is... Continue Reading →