Update: Peak Design confirmed this is an issue with some early Kickstarter models. They are doing warranty replacements on these bags! Woot! I’d been rolling around with my North Face Base Camp Rolling Thunder for seven… Read more

I remember getting my first “real” bike when I was 10—a late 1980s Schwinn Sierra. It was a mountain bike, and I felt invincible riding that monster around the neighborhood. Two wheelers have always been… Read more

A few weeks ago, the Rivian was in the shop for some needed maintenance. Rivian hooked me up with a Model 3 to use as a rental via their Enterprise Rental Car partnership program. While… Read more

I’ve dreaded the eventual move to Apple Silicon. I am a long-time Dragon NaturallySpeaking user to dictate content into my computer. Many blogs here have been “written” by voice. The dictation software runs on Microsoft… Read more

I love it when I stumble upon a truly neat product. It’s even better when the company behind it is awesome as well. For me, Aquagoggles meets both bars. Let me tell you why I’m… Read more

I sent my first holiday cards out in 2002. I selected the least dorky cards I could find so late in the season. Based on what I saw, I was hoping that all of the… Read more

To date, I’ve owned three motorcycles. Each new motorcycle ushers in a whole new level of technology. My first bike, a 2001 Vulcan 750, was an extremely simple motorcycle. It was carbureted at its core… Read more

Down at my core, I have always been partial to laser printers. In high school, the family had an HP LaserJet 4. To say that thing was a tank was a massive understatement. It printed… Read more

I’m a huge fan of voice dictation. I first fell in love with Nuance NaturallySpeaking on the Windows platform. After I switched over to the Mac and purchased Dragon for Mac 4, I was sorely… Read more

I had two great days up in Lake Tahoe experiencing very different coworking spaces.  Before that, I’ve been to a couple of different coworking spaces where I’ve stayed over in certain cities and extra day… Read more

I spent a fair amount of time searching but didn’t find many articles talking about migrating from wordpress.org to wordpress.com. Here’s my story. In all the iterations of my website, I have to say I… Read more

Up until recently I’ve been a casual user of eBay. I’ve purchased random things like ink cartridges for my printer, hard to find items for my motorcycle, and even a few specific apparel items. I’ve… Read more

A better way to measure riding I’m continually impressed with how capable the iPhone is when it comes to integrating into my daily life. Sure, it’s a web browser, email reader, social networking time waster.… Read more

Apple Computer has been getting a lot of bad press lately due to the removal of Google Maps from iOS and it’s replacement of Apple’s own mapping application. Rumor has it that Apple wanted Google… Read more

One of the riders this weekend offered his BMW S 1000 RR to ride after lunch.  Compared to my bike, this motorcycle is a finely tuned corner carving machine.  In contrast my bike is the… Read more

I’ve been riding a 2003 DL 1000 since it was new. The bike has about 85,000 miles on it and it’s been a great bike. Recently I was up in Colorado on vacation and rented… Read more

I’ve been an iPhone user for about 2 1/2 years now and I have to finally say I’m a convert.  One experience however that I don’t enjoy on the iPhone is typing.  I don’t find… Read more

I’ve found an awesome piece of code that I’ve used over the years that now seems to have disappeared of the net as the server hosting it is down. With Access, you can run a… Read more

Overview: Good once going, but needs a better out of box experience for content. 4 out of 5 Pros: Great value at $80, high quality picture, easy to set up, easy to use, great Netflix… Read more

I have to say that I am impressed. I genuinely enjoy my phone. I am surprised how much I use it at the expense of the computer. I do most of my browsing of South… Read more

So I finally got an iPhone.  iPhone is one of the standard issue phones from my employer and the Blackberry. I don’t really need an actual keyboard as I would rather have the screen real… Read more

Finally… I have a phone I can use. Back in 2001 I finally got a cell phone. Yes.. I was one of the last few hold outs it seemed. Even my folks had phones. I… Read more