Miscellaneous

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Posts that didn't fit in any other categories. This page lists all posts in the category, in reverse chronological order.

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• Suspended Presidential Campaign

  Posted Saturday, November 16, 2024 at 06:47 PM  in Miscellaneous
  

  A few weeks before the 2024 election, I suspended my campaign for president. I didn't want to keep votes from the candidate I wanted to win. I'm getting ready to delete the web site for my campaign but I thought I'd share with you links to the campaign store in case you want to pick up any Wargo 2024 branded items as a form of protest against our political system.

• Amazon Delivery in 2036

  Posted Sunday, November 10, 2024 at 12:06 PM  in Miscellaneous
  

  Imagine my surprise when I received an email from Amazon letting me know that an album I purchased a while ago, (Opeth's Last Will and Testament), wouldn't be delivered until 2036.

• No Posting

  Posted Tuesday, October 15, 2024 at 07:53 PM  in Miscellaneous
  

  Wow, no posts from me in a while. I apologize for that, but I've been spending a lot of time in my workshop making sawdust, and I've not had much I wanted to blog about.

• Connection Request

  Posted Tuesday, July 9, 2024 at 07:48 AM  in Miscellaneous
  

  I often get LinkedIn connection requests where I just don't understand the potential connection value.

• Testing a Bunny.Net CDN

  Posted Sunday, April 14, 2024 at 09:25 PM  in Miscellaneous, Web Development
  

  As I worked through the process of publishing a Windows app to the Windows Store, I found that I needed a CDN and this post describes how I addressed that requirement.

• Amazon Digital Music Hell Continued

  Posted Friday, April 12, 2024 at 06:31 PM  in Miscellaneous
  

  Earlier today I posted a rant about the ridiculous customer experience I encountered purchasing digital music from Amazon. If you've read many of the posts here, you probably noticed that I sometimes go off the handle on a topic and don't always think it completely through. After my online rant this morning, I started thinking of the possible reasons why an Amazon Digital music link would fail and I came up with some ideas.

• Amazon Digital Music Hell

  Posted Friday, April 12, 2024 at 06:19 AM  in Miscellaneous
  

  Amazon sent me an email this morning letting me know that a digital album I purchased was available for download. You'd think I'd be able to click a link and download my purchase, but you'd be wrong.

• FedEx Foibles

  Posted March 8, 2024  in Miscellaneous
  

  I noticed lately that FedEx seems incapable of knowing where packages are in their delivery network. As an example, take a look at the following screen shot taken this morning:

• Bogus Wells SMS

  Posted February 23, 2024  in Miscellaneous
  

  AI Generated   I received a spam text message pretending to be from Wells Fargo, but I quickly realized it was fake. The phone number and currency format were not typical for the US, making it clear that it was a phishing attempt. It's important to pay attention to these details to avoid falling for scams.

• Zinio Ridiculous Delete Account Process

  Posted January 13, 2024  in Miscellaneous
  

  I deleted my Zinio account and that kicked off a ridiculous series of steps beyond what I expected. How hard does it need to be to delete an online account you no longer use?

• End of the Year Wrap-up (2023)

  Posted December 31, 2023  in Delphi, Miscellaneous
  

  A summary of what happened this year on this site and in my life.

• Losing My Skills

  Posted December 17, 2023  in Miscellaneous
  

  I feel like I'm losing some skills. I'm working on this Microcontroller-based project that I intended to have completed by Halloween (2023) but I wasn't able to get it working in time and, as I continue to work on it, I can't seem to finish it.

• Google Pixel Watch Failures

  Posted December 17, 2023  in Miscellaneous
  

  The Google Pixel Watch was an expensive experiment for me. Two broken watches in a year, and no help from Google.

• Axios Account Profile Edit Failure

  Posted December 11, 2023  in Miscellaneous, Stupid Developer Tricks
  

  I can't think of any worse way to implement account profile editing than Axios does in their site today.

• Gihub's Fake 2FA Warning

  Posted August 8, 2023  in Miscellaneous
  

  Why exactly is GitHub warning me that I must use 2FA for my account when I already have it enabled (and have had it enabled for years)? End of post.

• Simple RPN Calculator

  Posted August 7, 2023  in Mobile Development, Miscellaneous, Flutter
  

  I started a new project this weekend, a simple RPN Calculator project I'm writing in Flutter. The app will be free and advertisement free. My goal is to publish it on the app stores as well as a web application.

• Hiatus

  Posted June 6, 2023  in Miscellaneous
  

  Announcing that I'm having shoulder surgery and won't be posting here much in the next couple of months.

• Relaunched A World Without Apps

  Posted May 28, 2023  in Miscellaneous
  

  Back in 2016 I created a site called A World Without Apps where I published articles about voice interfaces and how they would replace many mobile apps. After letting the site languish for many years, I finally brought it back to life last week with a new look and new purpose.

• Gadget Man

  Posted May 4, 2023  in Miscellaneous
  

  For my 60th birthday, my wife and some friends wrote a song about me called Gadget Man (sung to the tune from Rocket Man by Sir. Elton John)

• Site Migration Completed

  Posted April 21, 2023  in Miscellaneous, Eleventy, Static Site Generators
  

  Announces the completed migration of this site from Joomla! on FatCow to Eleventy on Netlify.

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