On my old LiveJournal I made a few posts of “Life with…”: first for netbooks, then after I got modern-at-the-time Apple hardware, so here’s “Life with ThinkPad”! It’s been about a month since I put a new-to-me Lenovo ThinkPad T480 notebook computer into service as my travel machine, and I am beyond pleased with it. … Continue reading
Through the Camera Eye
Many years ago I added a “Photoblog” category to this blog that has a scant two entries in it, both taken with the cellular phone I had at the time, the HTC Nexus One. The quality of these two pics is… questionable. Buried somewhere in this domain’s file structure are albums that once lived in … Continue reading
ThinkPad, Part 2
So far, my ThinkPad has been working well, though it does have one broken keycap: the F key. It’s not a huge deal, but I usually run my fingertip over the bumps on the F and J keys when idle on the computer, so this is personally frustrating to me. I got a cheap replacement … Continue reading
Joining the ThinkPad Cult
I’ve known about the IBM, later Lenovo, ThinkPad notebook computer line since I was very young. At some point, I decided they would be outside my interest range, so I opted for Dell, Acer, and Asus laptops personally for the longest time. Well, a need came up for a “travel” machine, and my old hacked … Continue reading
Radios and Stuff
I talked about ham radio digital voice briefly in my immediately previous post. Well, I’m gonna talk more about it today. As the last post implied, the digital voice mode I have the most experience with is definitely D-STAR. At this point, the standard is well over 20 years old, and other arguably better digital … Continue reading
Retrospectives
In the second post in my portable networking blog’s history, I talked about the WB4HRO Digital Repeater System I was managing at the time. This was my first “real” sysadmin experience, if I’m honest. It also taught me a lot about networking and the state of servers as it went along. This all started in … Continue reading
Running Musings
Some 10ish years ago, I remember seeing people’s posts about “ran my first 5K!” or similar and thinking “That doesn’t seem that hard…” considering at the time I had bought a proper road bike and could easily ride the 3.1 miles without too much effort. Well, I made the decision after I realized I wasn’t … Continue reading
Future Travel Plans?
While I’ve discussed considerations regarding travel, I have not talked about actual travel destinations. I’m going to mention a few in this post. First on the list is Tybee Island, Georgia. Tybee Island is a barrier island on Georgia’s coast which used to be a 5ish hour drive from where I used to live. The … Continue reading
Future Travel Considerations, Part 4
I’ve written three posts on this subject so far, each one discussing things specifically, and I’ve decided to revisit the subject today. First off regarding charging: I have been made aware of some different charging solutions that parts of the previous entries irrelevant. The push to USB-C for most new things is excellent progress, and … Continue reading
The Sakura-Con 2026 Post
I’ve been in the Greater Seattle area for two years now. As I mentioned in my report for last year’s Sakura-Con, I missed 2024’s due to arriving up here the day before the con plus being on call for work. Notably, 2024 was the first year since 2004 that I didn’t attend any sort of … Continue reading