Welcome to Sin City, my home away from home for the next week.

The view from our hotel room in Vegas.

Amazon released an update for the Kindle Fire today aimed at fixing some of the bugs and interface frustrations people were complaining about. The update brings the Fire’s software to version 6.2.1 and so far does seem to be a noticeable improvement. Touch responses are far more accurate, and everything feels snappier in general. If …

You may have noticed when you came to this page that the site is loading a lot faster than it has in recent weeks. I’ve moved to a new server – one that’s all mine! Ok, so I don’t own the actual hardware, but I purchased a virtual server that gives me dedicated resources that …

This year for Christmas and New Year’s the whole family is going to Las Vegas. My parents have been once before, but for the rest of us it will be the first time. In addition to the normal Vegas Strip activities we’ll be checking out things outside the city.  I plan to post pictures and …

For many months I’ve been using a Yubikey as a staple of my cyber security plan.  It makes me exponentially more secure and at the same time makes it easier for me to stay secure.  The only part of it that isn’t drop-dead simple is the configuration, though even that isn’t very difficult.  I’m going …

After the bulb sockets in my car’s corner lights and the turn signal socket in one of my tail lights went bad, I decided it was time to replace a number of the exterior lights on her. I replaced everything except the headlights, which are the OEM units from the factory (I really like the …

As of yesterday, I have a new callsign: W3RTX.  My original callsign, KB3MMY, is no longer in use.  You’ll notice that all amateur radio content on this site now falls under W3RTX. Why the change?  Perhaps the biggest reason was that I just wanted a vanity callsign.  It’s goofy, I know, but I thought it …

My office ordered a Kindle Fire for me to use, and it just arrived! Being an Amazon product, it arrived in what they call “frustration-free packaging” with which I would agree. All I had to do was pull a rip tab to open the box, and there was my Kindle. Below the device itself was …

Just a quick post to note that at the exact moment this post is published it’s 11:11am on November 11, 2011. In other words, 11-11-11-11-11. Carry on.