Why I don’t Like UTR

The Universal Tennis Ranking (UTR) is a hot topic right now. Really it has been around for a bit. It seems during the French Open each year the UTR folks appear on Tennis Channel to push their system. I play tennis and I have a child who plays competitive tennis. For me does UTR mean Read More

OpenVPN on a Mac

We recently changed our VPN all around and are using openVPN. It works great and no issues…except with our 1 Macintosh. The Mac had the openVPN client on it and when connected to the VPN, the local DNS was still given priority. Yes, the user could get to internal devices via IP addr, but not Read More

Amazon Fire Cube vs Roku

You might remember by my earlier post called Amazon Fire Stick vs. Roku. I’ve been running an Amazon Fire cube now for about 6 months. It is fine. I noticed pixelation often, especially during sports. I’m also not a fan of the Cube having Alexa listening, even though I have Alexa disabled. I am still Read More

Anger Drives Out Reason

Watching CNBC this morning and Charlie Munger of Berkshire Hathaway was asked about our government. His response was basically, there is too much hate out there. “Anger drives out reason” he said, followed by “that’s why I don’t get angry at politicians”. It would be nice if people out there would drop their hate and Read More

Bird Scooters vs Lyft Scooters

I’ve been grumbling the last few months about the litter on the streets called electric scooters. The whole concept of leave them anywhere is a problem. Yet, I just used one for the first time. For some reason I chose Bird. These are pretty cool and fit specific transportation needs, for sure. I rode for Read More