Last night I joined in my first multi-person Google+ Hangout and it was a blast.  I was invited in by another Amateur Radio operator, Jim, KA6QZU.  The Hangout was called “Ham Radio Nightly Hangout” and eventually others joined the group.  He told me their group has these meetings online every night at 9:00 PM, central time.  Usually I [...]

Since I do not have my ham radio gear, and do not live in Del City anymore, I had to improvise to be able to talk on the Del City ARC repeaters.  As most of you know, we sold our Del City home in July 2010.  All of my ham radio gear went into storage [...]

I just installed the new Internet Explorer 9.0 beta and this is what I saw from the moment I launched it.  I could not close it through normal means.  I had to Ctrl+Alt+Del and end task on it several times to close it down.  I was getting really irritated that I could not close it [...]

It is no secret that I have been fascinated with computers, networking, programming, among other things associated with the information technology (IT) world since the 1980’s.  I had planned to follow the IT field since I was a teenager and spend hundreds if not thousands of hours studying the new technologies over time.  In fact [...]

There seems to be a lot of buzz on the Internet about the concern for privacy with the new location based services on social networking services.  I think a lot of this is a little blown out of proportion.  Several months ago a service called Foursquare came on the scene where you could download applications [...]

There is a pretty cool new tool out there to keep all of your Internet passwords.  I don’t know about you but I get tired of trying to keep track of every password that I have especially since many of them have different requirements.  Well I have been hearing a lot on the Internet about [...]

  I ran across this video that someone shared on Google Buzz this evening.  It is pretty eye opening about how fast these social networking sites have proliferated.  I can remember just about a year ago, Facebook had around 200 million members.  About three months ago I heard they had 400 million users.  Just this [...]

For those that follow my posts both on my web site and on the Del City Amateur Radios Club’s web site, I need to let you know that www.delcityarc.org domain is about to expire in July.  This domain is going to be moved to another provider over the coming weeks so it may be unavailable [...]

This morning I was mowing the lawn while listening to the “This Week in Google” podcast on my mp3 player.  I was listening to episode 42 when they spend the entire podcast speaking about Facebook and their perceived privacy issues.  They spend a considerable amount of time pointing out what they believed to be Facebook’s [...]

You know something? A couple years ago I started hearing people bashing Internet Explorer and I thought it was just a bunch of people with sour grapes. I thought these people were just so anti-Microsoft that they were piling on. I hear it all the time. Over time though, there has definitely been some noticeable [...]