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New Zealand and Australia: visiting down under

Dec

3

2023

From Windy Wellington to Sun-Kissed Sydney My recent trip was a whirlwind of antipodean (Of, or pertaining to, Australia or New Zealand ) delights, hopping between Wellington’s cool charm and Sydney’s sun-drenched shores. Let me take you on a whistle-stop tour of our adventures. Sydney Harbour Cruise A trip to the land down under begins with a few ...

Play Internet Radio on you Amazon Alexa Echo

Oct

20

2023

Amazon Echo is a smart speaker, which means it does more than play music. With Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa, Echo can tell you about the weather, create shopping lists, help you in the kitchen, control other smart products such as lights and televisions, and a lot more. One request that isn’t very obvious is that you can ...

How to turn on your iPhone’s hotspot automatically when getting into your car .

Oct

20

2023

A common thing in most of today’s autos is to have a Internet connected head unit (dashboard display screen) so you can stream music or use Google Maps or Waze to navigate. But in.order for this to work you need an internet source, There are. a couple of ways to do this.. Using your Phone ...

Treasure Island Sprint Triathlon, Duathlon, Aquabike, & Kayak , Pleasant Triathlon 2023

Oct

8

2023

Here’s my Treasure Island Sprint Triathlon, Duathlon, Aquabike, & Kayak Triathlon 2023. video recap. This is a great beginner friendly event, that offers lots of options, one of the few triathlon’s in the country that offer a kayak leg in addition to the normal swim leg. The Race was cancelled last year as a hurricane ...

Turks and Caicos in July: A Hot and Humid Vacation

Jul

13

2023

Christine and I recently took a trip to Turks and Caicos in July. We usually travel to the. Caribbean in the Fall or Winter so it was our first time in the Summer and it turned out to be hot and humid, right from teh minute you landed… but we were still looking forward to ...

2023 Wyckoff/Franklin Lakes Triathlon – new course

Jun

22

2023

Here’s my Wyckoff/Franklin lakes Triathlon 2023. video recap. This was the 40th anniversary of this race, means this race started in 1983 and is still being held. This year’s course was changed form last year, since this race it re-started following a two year COVID hiatus, its now a sprint distance race, this year’s course ...

First time River Kayak Camping 3-days / 2 nights …. Lessons Learned 1

May

3

2023

Our trip adventure Back in September of 2021 a group of friends an I went Kayak Camping on the Susquehanna River in the Harrisburg , PA area, our trip Friday-through Sunday was a 3 day, 2 night adventure out on the river. Kayak camping is a great way to see the world , depending on ...

Best video summary of how ChatGPT / LLM work

May

1

2023

If you search the web you’ll find lots of summaries about how ChatGPT and in general , however there’s an excellent Youtube video from ByteByte Go Channel linked below that does an excellent easy to understand light technical overview of how ChatGPT (and most other Large Language Models) work.

simple script to watch for file changes on Linux

Mar

22

2023

Its a pretty common exercise in Linux/Unix shell programming to monitor a particular folder for file changes, typically the addiiton or change of a file. There’s a variety fo ways to do it , the more common approach is to use. In Linux, we can use the inotify interface to monitor a directory or a file. We do this ...

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