Insights and Updates

As the kids are getting older, 2 out of the 3 have switched to MacBooks from Chromebooks. That makes 4 out of the 5 of us pretty firmly in the Apple eco system. And after switching from Picassa to iPhoto to Aperture to Google Photos…

Filters in Gmail are incredibly useful but about 50% of the time the default is to see something like this: This is an example of what programmers call a "write only" command. Why? Because a few months or weeks from now - or even tomorrow…

This year we had the worst forest fires that I can remember. Things were bad 3 years ago, when teenagers playing with fireworks set off a forest fire 40 miles from Portland. Soccer games and other sports were cancelled because of the extremely poor air…