Tech Tip: Gmail Clean Up

It is impossible these days to keep up with the incessant barrage of spam and automated emails. At some point, I start overlooking emails...

What’s Your Home’s MPG?

Lacking accurate historical energy usage data, I needed a way to budget my new home’s heating oil costs. I devised a method analogous to...

Age of Running

I am in decent shape and am one of those people who tracks their activities on Garmin, Strava, etc. As a kid, I was...

No Backup and Ready for the Big Chill

Idealism will be tested on Saturday morning as an Arctic super-freeze is predicted to take our local temperature down to -8 degrees, and we...

Saw the Comet

(photo credit: Miguel Claro) The best telescope is the one you use. I noticed a news story about the green comet with the amazing...

Return to blogging

I wrote my first blog post in February 2005 about how much I hated my job and wanted a new one. It’s sad and...