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Back in the days of telegraphy when operators transmitted dots and dashes to form letters and words, they came up with a shorthand for...
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D. W. Wilma
May 18, 20142 min read
General Ham I Am
That’s the General Class Amateur Radio Operator, the next level above Technician which I passed about a month ago. I figured I would...
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D. W. Wilma
Apr 30, 20142 min read
Ham I Am
I am now officially KG7LEA for the next ten years! A week ago I took and passed my amateur radio Technician Class exam, one wrong answer...
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D. W. Wilma
Mar 12, 20142 min read
Disappeared
The four-engine plane carried 15 persons, nine crew and six passengers and nary a trace was ever found. One passenger, a Chinese-American...
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D. W. Wilma
Mar 1, 20141 min read
Rokuuuuu!
I looked back and realized that I did not finish my adventure with my new Roku box. To replay, I ordered a Roku 3 to replace the Roku so...
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D. W. Wilma
Mar 1, 20141 min read
Twitter and Crimea
I learned how to follow topics with the use of hashtags. In this case #Crimea will bring up every tweet involving the crisis between...
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D. W. Wilma
Feb 27, 20141 min read
More Twitter, No More Twitter
I’m not going to quit Twitter, but I doubt that I will spend time tweeting nor will I assemble a following. I can get all the important...
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D. W. Wilma
Feb 26, 20141 min read
I am experimenting with Twitter. I don’t have a particular need for tweeting, but I felt compelled to learn more after an emergency in...
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D. W. Wilma
Feb 3, 20142 min read
Anticipation
Remember when, for two weeks in December, the truck pulled up in front of the house to deliver that package from the grandparents? That...
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D. W. Wilma
Feb 2, 20142 min read
I don’t know, Roku?
I often consider what normal features of daily life would be incomprehensible 20 or even 10 years ago – smart phones, tablets, online...
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D. W. Wilma
Jan 3, 20142 min read
How are you listening?
Rather than get into a TLDR situation, I’m going to break things up. How to listen to audio books and podcasts. Most listening these days...
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D. W. Wilma
Dec 19, 20131 min read
Selling and Buying
Today I bought and I sold via Amazon.com. I tried to buy toys for my grandsons the old fashioned way, but when I got there, the toy store...
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D. W. Wilma
Dec 15, 20133 min read
What are you reading? Hearing?
I usually have two books going at once, one a work of fiction and the other some kind of history book. With the Kindle I can have three...
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D. W. Wilma
Mar 27, 20131 min read
My video
In 1963, I heard a single by the surf rock band, the Marketts, called “Out of Limits”. I like the fast paced, heavy bass of the music and...
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D. W. Wilma
Mar 26, 20133 min read
Home Movies
I just completed a couple of desktop home movie projects, another genre of the technology revolution. I was a participant in the growth...
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D. W. Wilma
Feb 19, 20131 min read
What are you reading? Steve Jobs
I am reading the biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson which I recommend from a number of viewpoints. First, it’s well researched...
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D. W. Wilma
Oct 13, 20122 min read
Podcasts
Yes, an entire year since the last post. Not that I haven’t had anything to write, I just haven’t written it here. Here’s hoping I do...
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D. W. Wilma
Oct 7, 20111 min read
Don’t Settle?
The unfortunate passing of Steve Jobs has highlighted his accomplishments and his vision. But one bit of of his wisdom might require some...
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D. W. Wilma
Jul 22, 20103 min read
Video Lynchings
The recent kerfuffle over the dismissal of a civil servant who was framed by a doctored video underscores something I’ve believed for a...
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D. W. Wilma
Jun 10, 20101 min read
Drill Ban
I get irritated with the clamor to ban offshore oil drilling because of the current disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. I wish people would...
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