For those with a non-“smart” alarm or watch, this Sunday (November 2nd, 2025) may be the time to fall back an hour. It’s also a time developers watch for odd errors…
Continue reading “Daylight Savings Time Alert… time to set your… cron jobs?”App-tive-climbing game is now free!
App-tive-climbing – the game that lets you be active – be climbing – be learning, even without a rock wall, is now free! Check the website for details and a link to in-browser game or the Google Play link (for newer Android devices).
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As you may have heard, today is the last day of Windows 10 security updates. What does that mean for future potential security of your systems? Well, there are several options:
Continue reading “End of Windows 10? Consider your options…”OpenStreetMap Tiles widespread Blockage/Outage
If you have been browsing websites with a map recently you may have noticed some maps giving an error message, even those that seem to be correctly attributing and using the OSM service:
Continue reading “OpenStreetMap Tiles widespread Blockage/Outage”Interesting Math from the Congressional Record
What if there were an easy way to get some numbers and information from recent bills, and cut through the hype to make some interesting mathematical observations? This might be useful for those who are studying law or mathematics – or anyone wanting to dig through the numbers in recent law. With some basic PHP we can build something that easily processes and shows which might be the most interesting for mathematicians.
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There has been much reporting on the upcoming bans for in class cell phone use – it makes sense that these may be much more distracting than the cell phones of years past, with constant social interactions or distractions. But for those who want to communicate, what are the rules for simply using a GMRS or ham radio for necessary communication throughout the day?
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Are you tired of some of the odd “brain-numbing”, electricity-wasting services of AI automated guesses at the top of your search engines and other services? The Tech Friend newsletter shows some easy ways to eliminate them – because if you want it, you can go to Claude or ChatGPT directly, right? 🙂
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If you’ve heard the recent news this week you may know that some changes to funding make hundreds of small town radio stations at risk.
Continue reading “Is Today the day to subscribe to NPR Plus?”TIDRadio review – a radio with USBC charging, programming
At Sea-pac this year I had heard good reviews about this TIDRadio TD-H3: clear and good sound, and a nice compact radio that they had deployed to a local organization.
Continue reading “TIDRadio review – a radio with USBC charging, programming”Can Claude start a business? According to Anthropic, probably not.
In a recent post by Anthropic, they relate the story of testing a Claude bot as a small business owner for their in-office vending setup. The result was somewhat humorous, and shows that it is not likely that the AI are ready to be management material (although, as we all know, they can sometimes help us manage businesses/ideas 🙂
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