I started using Map My Ride pretty soon after it was introduced, because it was so much easier to map out prospective routes with it than with Google Earth. It remembers your workouts and calculates calories. When I got my…
Wake Up and Get Your Head in the Cloud
About a decade and a half ago, I was helping a non-profit with their website. We were discussing the budget, and how there was an expense for converting their regular newsletter for posting on their web site. “Why is it…
New Year’s Fitness: MyFitnessPal.com and Racing Weight
It’s a great time to be alive: we have ubiquitous connectivity to ubiquitous storage and reference. Apps of fabulous utility are everywhere, making it easier to track some of the critical variables in your life. At the extreme, life blogging…
Don’t Use Quickbooks
If you’re a small business and are contemplating a move to an accounting software package, my counsel in the strongest possible terms is to avoid Quickbooks. I understand that they have had a stranglehold on the small- to medium-sized business…
Feedly, I Just Don’t Get You
So back when Google announced that they were going to terminate their RSS reader service (a decision I still don’t really understand), like everyone else I pawed around at replacement candidates [1]. I ended up going with Feedly, which at…
Fun with Technology at the Beach
Here is a round-up of some of the technologies we’ve had fun with during our trip to the beach! Southport Web Cam It all started with dinner conversation at the Frying Pan restaurant, where the greater family was gathered during…
Me, the noted encyclopedia author
When I was growing up, a Proper home had a set of encyclopedia volumes, otherwise you had to resort to using the one in the library. There were salesmen and purchasing plans and that sort of thing. Since I had…