Ramblings of a Luddite Geek

Way back in 2017 I wrote an introduction to CLCL 1 , the clipboard manager that I prefer.  That post described how to add the supplementary ...

There are two comments related to the previous post: The blood draw wasn’t scheduled for the next morning. It was for the following morning!...

Tonight I prepared for a 7:20AM fasting blood draw. Here’s how. I have an outstanding balance with the lab, so I decide to pay it online and...

Windows 10 computers are missing the “Open Command Prompt Here” on the shortcut menu. You can find a registry change online that will bring...

Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, I was getting ready to practice social isolation. I’ve always had an aversion to crowded spaces, and I b...

 The capacity of my kitchen garbage can is 3.2 gallons, but I usually buy ordinary 4-gallon trash bags for it.  And I resent having to buy t...

The modern Outlook status bar no longer shows the number of selected items. So some folks suggest that you select items and simply press Ent...

A medium load of laundry had been taking over an hour to finish.  When I watched the tub fill with cold water, it looked like effluence from...

I’m losing faith in our institutions. First example is how the Federal Reserve thinks it can get inflation under control by raising interest...

Here's the scenario... You've put considerable effort into eliminating "outlier" rows from a data table.  Now, you want to...

I used to get head colds and sinus infections in Winter.  But now, thanks to modern air conditioning, I can  suffer from them in Summer, too...

The cap on a bottle of liquid laundry detergent doubles as a measuring cup. Most brands instruct the consumer to "fill to line 1 for ...

One should always examine the Internet Header of a suspicious email.  Yet, when Microsoft upgraded Outlook, this has become more difficult t...

I've been using Org Mode for several years. One Org Mode quirk is that the links in Org files always open in the Emacs editor, by defa...

In " Reverse the Order of Worksheets in an Excel Workbook " I show a VBA module that I wrote in order to reverse the order of seve...

“What is that in Celsius?” asked my European coworker on the other end of an international conference call.  We had started the call by sayi...

I've been a Pandora subscriber since 2006, and I have a couple of well-tweaked stations.  But one of my favorite stations was stuck wit...

If you're running Outlook in an Exchange environment, and the administrator has defined a Retention Policy, you can use the following kl...

The effect of using too much laundry detergent makes for a funny, suds-filled scene in the movies.  But the real problem occurs the next tim...

“ I have stated my concerns with Amazon long before the Election. Unlike others, they pay little or no taxes to state & local government...