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UPDATE Sept 29, 2023: Consider this a history lesson on videoconferencing. 🙂 UPDATE April 12, 2020: The stay at home orders during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic prove the worth of videoconferencing for staying connected with loved ones and for telecommuting. I gave my last presentation on videoconferencing in 2009. Here are the slides. I remember…
Go here to read Part 2 Go here to read Part 3 Go here to read Part 4 Free advice on how to start a telecommuting program at work. Read my: Post COVID Remote Work Guidelines Telecommute while the coronavirus is still active. BEEEEPPPP. BEEEEEPPPP. Arrrgghhhh. It’s 5:00 AM and your alarm clock is announcing the start of a new…
UPDATE Nov 17, 2023: The Pixel 8 Pro is great….the Pixel Watch 2 took a couple of updates to “Fitbit” and the Watch itself to get it ALMOST right. I have been using it since the last update (a couple weeks) and it is MUCH BETTER than I describe below. It is usable as long…
A few months ago, I got an email from Google telling me that Google Domains has been sold to another company. Oh, crap. That means the domains I had working out of Google Domains would be subject to another companies technology, pricing, etc. Not sure what to do…..I did nothing…… Until…… A few days ago,…
As you might remember, in 2021 I replaced our very old DE filter with a new cartridge filter…..link here. Since then, everything was working fine….until…..the hottest day of this cold 2023 year hit…… my also VERY OLD pool pump croaked. One look at the featured image (above) and I was shocked that it lasted this…
I have said many times on ForCarol.com, that going to the theater to watch movies is at the beginning of the end. Even though a few “blockbusters” have done well recently (the newest one being Super Mario Brothers) if you study the box office, you will see that the latest blockbuster is doing well at…
I was invited to try Google’s BARD artificial intelligence chat thingy a few days ago and I had a chance to try it this morning……. Pretty cool! I suspect my work as a blogger just got a whole lot easier, or irrelevant! 🙂 Here is my first question for BARD: What is the difference between…
I may be the only person in the world who has experienced this, but, I’ll write about it anyway, just so I can remember it. 😉 I’ll get to the Disney+ issue in a minute, but, first some background…. Netgear Cable Modem Being me……I purchased and installed (both very easy) my own cable modem….a Netgear…