A couple of weeks ago I had a tremendous opportunity to have a ride of a lifetime thanks to the guys at RideApart.com (formerly Hell for Leather). I was able to write a travelogue of the trip and also a few reviews of the new-to-me kit. Go read it and enjoy: A California Road Trip…
Life is full of relatives and tradeoffs. This became apparent to me for the hundredth time this morning while hopping on my 2006 Yamaha FZ1 for the first time in three months after having put 1100 miles on a 2013 Suzuki GSX-R750 a little over a week prior. What was immediately obvious was that relative…
After waiting weeks to get into the exclusive club that is Mailbox I am unable to continue using the app. Where Mailbox excels: The single action UI is brilliant and innovative. It allows me to do the two or three most common actions with a single swipe. These include Archive and Delete but also a…
I had the pleasure of traveling to Omaha for a 90 minute meeting on a Friday morning. 18 hours ago I would have said that first sentence with a healthy dose of sarcasm. Now, on my flight home, I can say that it truly was a pleasure to travel to Omaha. Omaha is a city…
What I have learned over the last month or so, through first hand experience and secondary research is that all low-cost web hosts are essentially the same. The product they offer is adequate for small time players like me. The performance is good to great at first and seems to deteriorate over time, whether it…
I cannot divulge all details now, but I am scheduled for an amazing trip to California in a couple weeks. In preparation for this trip I have been planning my routes and loading them into Garmin GPS. I will review my experience with both this GPS and with Garmin’s Basecamp software after my trip. This…
I’ve been wanting some chest protection for a while and used this opportunity to get some. Once I received them, I just needed to figure out how to ‘install’ them in my Fieldsheer mesh jacket.
Since upgrading to the iPhone 5, the added row of applications has almost been more of a curse than a blessing. With my iPhone 3G (AT&T), which I kept for almost three years waiting for a Verizon iPhone, then finally an iPhone 4 (Verizon), for a little over two years, I had nearly five years…