Coding Relic

This is a legitimate credit union in Davis, California, I just find it amusing.

I agree, Slackbot.

Reciprocal driver’s license agreements allow a license in one participating nation to be exchanged for the other — either in whole or in pa...

I love the Sonic Fiber-optic Internet Service and use it in northern California. Their support is great, the price is reasonable, and the t...

"This is a photo of the Justizpalast (Palace of Justice) in Munich, Germany, taken around 1970." Ok, that is impressive from Goo...

I received an email from Nextdoor, clearly a paid advertisement targeted at people who live in my town. The person who paid for the ad i...

When I first moved to California in 1992 I rented a one bedroom apartment in Mountain View at a complex called The Shadows. I remember it be...

In November 2024 we decided to renew our US passports . We also ordered Passport Cards for the first time. The cards arrived 18 days after w...

About six weeks ago we moved our family chat over to Signal Messenger after considering alternatives WhatsApp and Telegram. We are a mix of...

The AuthaGraph map projection projects the Earth's surface onto a triangular pyramid which is then unfolded and transformed into a recta...

It started, simply enough, as a search for manuals for a sauna heater. The nameplate says it was made by AB Bahco in Enköping, Sweden. Googl...

Earlier this year the Hannover Stadtarchiv put their indexes online in Arcinsys . Last week I think I found a record for a relative I've...

"Y2K," or 1/1/2000, was 25 years ago today. Dire predictions of how bad the Y2K Bug might be, with the failure of computing syste...

In my continuing quest to ensure that we have local copies of all cloud data like photos, I re-discovered that we had about 11,000 pictures...

An Apostille is similar to notarization to certify a document, but intended for use in another country. Apostille is defined by a Hague conv...