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Using Morsc code over the telegraph If you dig into the past, social media has been around way before Facebook and X, in a simpler form but still allowing remote communication between people. It may have started with the 18th century telegraph invented by Henry, which at first just rang a bell at the other […]

The other day, one of my friends posted this message in a motorcycle-related WhatsApp group: “We’re a community that’s very generous with knowledge and we often help out with a “come and take it” [spare parts] attitude, and it’s amazing to see and experience that. A lot of this stems from a crappy importer and […]

If you want to check whether a Youtube channel is monetized (Publisher get’s paid for views and clicks on ads), here is a nice tool to do it:https://ytlarge.com/monetization-checkerWhy would you need to check is a channel is monetized? You’d check if a channel is monetized:

I’ve had the Suzuki DR650 for 3 years until late December 25. I bought it exclusively for offroad use, and traveled with it 17,000 km.  I wrote a long term review of the DR650 here, and it was obvious the bike is capable, but never felt “complete”, with the main downside being the suspension, that […]

Hearing the recent news about Rob Reiner made me want to write about some of his work that has followed me since childhood. Family & influences Reiner, born in 1947 to a Jewish family in New York, was the son of Carl Reiner, an actor and director who was also a beloved figure in the […]

Scoring questionnaires can be exhausting, especially the ones that have many participants, or several scales, or reversed items, meaning you can’t just sum the scores. You can use AI to score questionnaires but as with any task you want the AI to do, you need to give AI a clear prompt (instructions). Here are my […]

How many links did you click on today? probably more than you can count! Today, hyperlinks are instantly recognizable, and most of us don’t think about how we spot them. Early hyperlinks, however, did not look the way they do now. At first, hyperlinks were hard to spot, but in the very early web (early […]