My Mountain

I love taking the MAT Bus in Fargo, ND.  Route 11 zips me from the north side of Fargo to downtown in mere minutes. With one transfer, I am ...

Perhaps you are trying to stream a video or pay per view sports game from your computer to the HDMI port on your TV. The video displays fine...

Getting banned from a Telegram group for bad behavior isn't very difficult. But sometimes group administrators want to reverse a ban.  T...

In October, 2022, I reached my limit with Twitter.  After 11 years on their platform, I decided to close my account there and stake a claim ...

I've been exploring the Fediverse, a collection of socially networked servers sharing content through a protocol  called ActivityPub.. T...

On December 1, 2021, these gopher servers were known to be active. This is just a partial list of active gopher servers.  After a gaining po...

Traveling around the internet, its easy to encounter tricky websites that want to shove all manner of annoying notifications at you.. These ...

 Photo by Mr Cup / Fabien Barral on Unsplash I was doing research, trying to locate Creative Commons licensed news content for a projec...

Fifteen years ago , I began developing a software program and began selling it online.  To process orders and distribute activation keys, I ...

I maintain a Telegram bot. I found it was unable to send a URL while the URL contained a # symbol. For example,  if I want the bot to send a...

For nearly twenty one years, I have been the father of an autistic son. He has grown to adulthood, and I am very proud of him, and I love hi...

I have been playing with Gopherspace (yes, that is still a thing) and Flask-Gopher . I needed a simple visitor counter for Python 3.7 so I c...

I need to make backups of a database every hour.  I spent a little too much time coming up with my simple solution, so passing it on here to...

Back in the 80's and 90's before the widespread adoption of the internet, tech enthusiasts built and used a wide network of computer...

I setup a GMRS repeater using a pair of Motorola M1225 Radius radios. I wanted to use the ID-O-Matic IV controller, but I ran into a proble...

I was reading Karl Taro Greenfeld 's article in Time about Jenny McCarthy, when I was struck by his description of her: "In pe...

To protect my email from snoops and spooks, I wanted to setup an email certificate for signing and encrypted my messages. I use Outlook 2013...

Of all the posts that I've written over the years, those about catching crayfish in Minnesota  and bullhead seem to be the most enduring...

I'm appalled at the Senate's approach to an internet sales tax. Making millions of small businesses accountable to thousands of lo...

I've just the better part of an hour trying to give away my money. Unfortunately, the web hosting company I use has hired 2Checkout (or ...

Todd Withnell was a friend of mine who lived in Moorhead, MN and died 30 years ago in 1982 at the age of 29. I was thinking about him the o...