Tech Tuesday – Happy DOS-cember!

I will be the first to admit, when someone starts talking about retro computers, or retro games, I will go bananas. Why? Because I still have one foot firmly in the 80's and early 90's.  Why? Because I am a Commodork! Commodork /com-oh-dork/ noun 1. A person who is addicted to or a lover of …

Tech Tuesday – The House that M1 is Building

For transparency I am a former Apple Employee, but that doesn't change the fact that an AWS virtualization engineer, got Windows 10 running on a new Apple M1 Macbook Pro, and it was pretty damn snappy! Faster than Microsoft's Surface Pro, which is also ARM based, like Apple's M1 chips. The article published by ZDNet, …

Tech Tuesday – Save Your Fork, There’s Pi! (Reduex)

Back when I was doing the original Tech Tuesday on the radio station blogs, is about the time the first Raspberry Pi came out. And it really was a game changer! Inexpensive, small and powerful with a ton of features for the homebrewer and kit basher, as well as the all around loveable geeks like …

Tech Tuesday – Don’t Discount The Dipole

You know, a lot of times, I see people post on social media and ask other Ham Radio ops, "What's a good antenna to use?" That on the surface is a loaded question (Get it? Loaded? OK.. moving on.). It really depends on what bands you want to work, your space considerations, topography and a …

Tech Tuesday to Return

Back when I worked at Lite 98.7 and Q103, I published a weekly blog called Tech Tuesday. It's not hard to guess what it was about. It was about Tech and it came out on Tuesday, pretty straight forward, right? Well after I left Lite 98.7, and Q103 was kind enough to let me go …