Technical genius

Junk consumer products

Oh how I do HATE cheapo consumer grade chain saws! All I wanted to do was cut a few limbs for spring cleanup. Instead I spent 4 hrs taking apart the carb, replacing the fuel line, replacing the pull rope, and finally the spark plug, only to find that it has a trashed reed valve […]

Spectre and Meltdown

All my systems are patched up for Spectre and Meltdown. The performance impact isn’t noticeable on my laptop and main desktop as in general they’re lightly used. However, on one of my Win 10 development systems were I have quite a few Docker containers running, the hit was sizable! All my CPUs are pre-Haswell (2015), […]

Uber is the future

Used Uber extensively on a recent trip to Orlando and have nothing but 5 star praise for the service. Normal taxi service is a dead model. http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/01/uber-50-billion-value-microsoft-investment/