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There are many great online training sites for all sorts of careers and/or hobbies. Some are quite expensive and some are, well, my favorite…free. You are most likely already aware that all colleges and universities offer online courses. You can earn many degrees online today. Some people take courses at local universities and also take…
Passwords Should Be Difficult & Easy
I receive questions quite often about passwords. I have a quick, wise guy answer; make them really difficult but easy. OK, I left a couple of words out of that statement. It should have said “really difficult for someone else to guess but easy for you to remember.” We need passwords for networks on our…
The AI Time Machine: How I Successfully “Time Traveled” Back to the Summer of ’74
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I decided to put Google’s Gemini (and its graphics tool, Nano Banana) to the test to see if I could “modernize” these black and white memories. The results were pretty incredible. With just a few simple instructions like “sharpen” and “colorize,” the AI produced a vivid, realistic version of us from 50 years ago.
It even got the shirt colors spot on, and after a quick correction to fix my eye color from brown to blue, the final image was perfect. It’s amazing what these new AI tools can do for our old “shoebox” finds!
Crazy: 90 Percent of People Don’t Know How to Use CTRL+F – The Atlantic
This week, I talked with Dan Russell, a search anthropologist at Google, about the time he spends with random people studying how they search for stuff. One statistic blew my mind. 90 percent of people in their studies don’t know how to use CTRL/Command + F to find a word in a document or web page!…

