10-minute drawing in 10 seconds

Posted on July 13, 2018July 17, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

The video at the end of this post (and images throughout) is a great visual example of one of the most common failures in Customer’s expectations in relation to project delivery. They want the 1st Spiderman quality but it must be delivered in the same time as the 10 second attempt. And a project will […]... Read More

Windows Notepad app finally gets an update

Posted on July 12, 2018July 14, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

The Verge – Microsoft is updating the Windows Notepad app for the first time in years. Today, this news headline appeared in my news feed on my phone…Wait… What… Why? Why update notepad for windows now? I mean, who even used it any more with so many other notepad alternatives… In 2014 Online-Tech-Tips.com posted an […]... Read More

New Bikes and New Bike Trail

Posted on July 10, 2018January 14, 2019 by jrblack Leave a comment

Academy of Sports recently had a sale on bikes and we have been wanting to get new bikes for the family for… um… quite some time… years… yeah. So we dove in and got 5 new mountain style bikes for the family. We are not professionals and don’t need the best bikes on the market, […]... Read More

uBlock Origin

Posted on June 26, 2018July 10, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

AdBlock… what ever happened to that Extension? It just stopped working, Chrome kept reporting it was disabled, but after clicking the Enable this Extension link, it still would not enable. I complained to a co-worker and he said, “AdBlock is no longer the goto extension for blocking adds in Chrome browser… but uBlock Origin is […]... Read More

Android Messages for web

Posted on June 26, 2018June 28, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

Though I recently started using MightyText and posted about it recently, the FREE version limits you to 150 messages… Well, when you have 3 kids, work, sports, dance, and busy family, 150 messages a month is not enough. The good news… Google recently released Android Messages for web. This new Messages Web App allows you […]... Read More

Toad Data Modeler

Posted on June 8, 2018June 8, 2018 by jrblack 2 Comments

At work our primary web application is supported or driven by a database that is not relational, has lots of redundant data, some tables don’t have Keys, there are not Foreign Keys or indexes. For those DBA’s that found this article, it would be a nightmare. So, with the database concerns and other architecture and […]... Read More

NC Zoo with SW Freshmen

Posted on May 31, 2018July 10, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

I recently was blessed with the opportunity to chaperone a group of Freshmen from Caitlin’s high school to the NC Zoo. At the time I signed up for this, I thought it would be great and a fun time. But as we approached that day, it became more and more clear that the skies would […]... Read More

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