Using Microsoft Office 365 for Business as an individual
It’s been a while since I’ve updated where I’m at with my “Microsoft experiment”, but in short, it’s dead now. The Microsoft Band 2 hardware was flawed (and has since been discontinued by Microsoft),...
View ArticleIntroversion
Believe it or not, it wasn’t until a few years ago I truly understood what introversion was. I knew I was introverted, but I thought it meant I was more inward-thinking and preferred my own company....
View ArticleSurvey of amateur radio operators yields interesting results
Dustin N8RMA recently published a survey of amateur radio operators on Sway. The survey, he said, wasn’t meant to be exhaustive or scientific. Most of the 688 respondents found the survey on either...
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Things are never as black-and-white as they seem
You may remember in my 2016 year-in-review, I mentioned that we adopted a puppy on Christmas Eve last year. We didn’t know a lot about her when we adopted her. The shelter said she was a few months...
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The best way to use technology is to not use it
In January, I posted about leaving Facebook (and, while not mentioned, I also deleted Snapchat). Even before that, I foreshadowed this action in my 2016 year in review: All I want to do is make life...
View ArticleHistorical photos of Des Moines
Des Moines has seen a renaissance of sorts, especially in the central business district. I love seeing old photos of Des Moines and comparing them to where they are now. Luckily, the Des Moines Public...
View ArticleThe first year of homeownership
This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of buying my first home. It’s been fun, but it’s also been a lot of work. I was reminded of the reward of all of this hard work last week when I was standing...
View ArticleSubscription-based software is expensive and unsustainable
I like to think of myself as a simple man, so I don’t usually stray too far from the vanilla apps provided to me by macOS and iOS. The apps I do purchase above and beyond include Pixelmator, Microsoft...
View ArticleWhy I support the ARRL (and why I might not)
The American Radio Relay League catches a hard time from the amateur radio community. Sometimes it’s deserved, sometimes it’s a matter of personal opinion, but it seems to always be a controversial...
View ArticleTwenty years online!
It was a sticky July afternoon during summer break in middle school. I was at my dad’s house on a Toshiba Infinia connected to America Online, making my first website in AOLpress, which was then hosted...
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