Monthly Archives: December 2025

Desktop computer, don’t know why, don”t care. Using phone compared to laptop… brutal. Using laptop compared to desktop… brutal. Especially if you don’t have a mouse.

Maybe since 8ish last night. IDK why yet. I thought, no problem, I’ll use my laptop. Using it now, but it’s brutal, because I don’t have my mouse USB receiver. I left it in daughters laptop, when she was down a few weeks ago, because she wanted me to remove a program she was having …

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One of my kids gave me The IT Crowd: The Complete Series. Watched it before and it’s hilarious. Happy to have it in my collection. As my dad would say “It’s better than a sharp stick in the eye” Or this…

I used the Hercules IBM emulator longer ago than I thought. I thought my first exposure to the Hercules/IBM mainframe world was through Moshix videos around 2018. But I was looking through this log and I found a VM/370 entry 5 years before that in 2013. At first I assumed I entered a wrong date …

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Title says it all.

Coursera will acquire Udemy in an all-stock transaction.

Looking back in this log, I made a comment about a programming website. It said Learn 55 languages. I, half kidding made a comment about not offering Cobol. Anywho I see they now do. They now say 78 programming languages.

The previous post showed me I need to make a computer Highlights page. I read something and feel the need to talk about it. However, as of today this Log or Blog is approaching 2000 posts, so I often feel I’ve probably talked about a topic… maybe many times.

If my career was just starting out? Short answer… no! I am so thankful for my career working with computers. But today and for a while now… it totally doesn’t fit my personality. When I got out of High school, I had no idea what I wanted to do. I liked animals. So maybe something …

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This whole issue with me came about, because I wanted to enter GPS info for locating family grave sites, into my family webtrees database, because in the past I would go to the cemetery with my mom to visit family graves, and sometime they were hard to find. I now know it’s not going to …

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