I have mentioned before in this space the perils of visiting my Mother-in-Law, Virginia, who is active in cat rescue. And yet, Sylvia and I went over to her house twice this month, to visit with her and Phil, and her son Bill and his son Alan. And (and this is going to totally [...]
…at least, that’s what Epson’s marketing department calls it. I call it a PictureMate Photo Printer.
But I will say this, it’s incredibly reasonably priced, and it does the one thing that it does extremely well.
The “one thing that is does” is to print a 4×6 photo, either from your camera’s media card (it seems [...]
Recently, my boss, Ron Traver, threw a party for the Network Management Software group and the Testing group, and as often happens nowadays, people sent e-mails to everybody afterwards, containing their digital photographs. I have been using a 3 megapixel piece of Canon consumer garbage, and it certainly does have compactness on its [...]
My lovely wife, Sylvia, had volunteered us to host Christmas, and to make the Christmas Stew for my in-laws.
Now, you might or might not be surprised to hear this, but even though we’re 50 years old, we didn’t know how to make a stew. However, a few quick phone calls, web searches, look-ups in [...]
My good friend Chris Ravenscroft has long touted the Glory of a Roomba, but I’ve maintained a healthy skepticism. Sure, it’s a robot that takes care of your mundane vacuuming chores, which has got a nice Jetsons feel to it, but aren’t there downsides? In the books I’ve read, sometimes robots kill you [...]
At long last, tomchappell.com has moved to a VPS (a Virtual Private Server, an entire virtual machine running in an emulated environment that goes mostly at full speed, but whenever the operating system tries to talk to the hardware it finds itself cruelly interrupted and redirected to a controlling authority, which then issues the appropriate [...]