posts from february 2026

This actually isn't just about Cadillac but all luxury cars from the 2005-2012 era. I'm an unabashed Garmin GPS nerd, and own way too many Garmin nuvi, Drive and DriveSmart screens. Example: I own 3 of 4 of the current line, , and , with the only one I don't have being the ). And […]

I'm due for another eye exam. Haven't done it yet, but soon will. For the last two eye exams I've had, it was recommended to me to get progressive lenses. I said no both times because I didn't feel I needed them. But now I'm at the point where I might. A question then popped […]

I decided to regex everything to keep my email inbox clear of spam, but I have looked into other options. There is one and only one way that is absolutely guaranteed way to stop all spam, and it's on-the-fly email aliasing. What this basically means is that everybody, be it a person or business, gets […]

It is legitimately dangerous to edit plain text in Windows now. Yes, you could be forgiven for thinking I'm completely making that up, but unfortunately I'm not. Microsoft incredibly found a way to break Notepad so bad that one of the very recent 'updates' for it resulted in the software having a remote code execution […]

As time goes on and more people realize that navigation on a phone is complete garbage, they're turning to Garmins. I own a bunch of them. Got the newer stuff with the , and (yes, I do own all three), older stuff that goes as far back as two decades ago, and many models in […]