Misc Archive

  • Late Night TV Flashback

    Late Night TV Flashback

    As a teenager I remember occasionally watching a late night show on a Madison, Wisconsin TV station that showed mostly “B” grade horror movies. We had lived in Madison until I was 12 years old, then we moved to a city about an hour and...

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  • Spring Has Sprung

    Spring Has Sprung

    Now that the weather is getting nicer, I have less time for geeky projects.  So there has been a lot more blogging on our home page about projects I have going on at home than here. It’s also precluding me from having the time to...

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  • Magazine Renewal Deception

    Magazine Renewal Deception

    I’ve come to the conclusion (along with others apparently given the number of similar stories online) that the magazine subscription services intentionally mislead its subscribers into renewing even when their subscriptions aren’t about to expire. The Magazine Publishers of America have an excuse though: Most...

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  • Wippien Install Revisited

    Wippien Install Revisited

    We’ve been using Wippien as a VPN client to play some LAN games online. A while back I made a video about how to install Wippien.  It’s about 8 minutes long and goes through all the steps needed to install and configure Wippien. Note:  We’ve...

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