Half of the U.S. population has had Covid-19
The CDC estimates about half of the U.S. population had had Covid-19 from Feb 2020 to Sep 2021. Source: Estimated…
People are losing interest in Instagram
The photo-sharing app has quietly rolled out a pop-up notice prompting users to “try a new account.” Can a fresh…
Ouch: GM Bolt production will not resume until after JAnuary
This has been quite a fiasco for everyone involved: GM won’t restart Bolt production until the end of January at…
Hubsan Zino Mini SE Drone
I bought a Hubsan Zino Mini SE Drone. This is a <250 gram quadcopter with 4k/30p video ability. Tiny! Just…
Study finds automated license plate readers are ineffective
“Analyzing sixteen years of stolen vehicle numbers from Piedmont, California—a “super user” of ALPRs—this report finds no statistical evidence that…
Omicron travel bans make no sense
I made this chart on Nov 30th Dec 1st, and it is up to date as of that day. As…
I switched to Microsoft Edge browser – and I like it
For a long time I used Mozilla Firefox. Firefox has noticeable impacts on the battery life of my notebook computer…
New web site user interface and layout
Got tired of the black background and desired something more appealing. Will see how this goes! Image by James Osborne…
New blog: Travel and Global Thinking
I started a new blog on travel topics – the layout, appearance and content is very different from this blog.…
Gravity-based utility scale electric “battery” systems
Image by ELG21 from Pixabay