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If You’re Paying for Prime Amazon Photos Might Be an Option… With a Catch

At the cost of a Publix candy bar a month for 200GB of photos. Google Photos is a pretty cheap option to store your photos but that 200GB is a limitation.

Social Incontinence at Its Worst

My social personality is very up front with people, and it’s hard for a lot of my “friends” to take. I am sarcastic in casual situations, but when I get serious with “friends”, I am direct with them in regard to my opinions and a lot of them don’t like it. I get a lot…

More Days, More Time

After having worked a 4 day 10-hour work week for about three and a half years (doesn’t feel like it’s been that long), I thought I’d had it made. “I only work half a week! 4 out of 7 days.” But after having recently returned to the normalcy of a typical 8-hour day I began…

I Know My Computer Tech Posts Are Weird, But…

I’m obsessed with “web apps”. If you look at my Windows 11 taskbar, half of the shortcuts are links to websites that I’ve installed “as an app” in the Edge browser. No “favorites” toolbar, no nonsense, and they remember their positioning on my screens. Examples below. One-click access to Meta AI, no searching shortcuts in…

When You Think You Won’t Need It, You Will

You never know when you may need it and if you think your Windows 10 recovery USB disk may save you, you're wrong.

Thursday Night Fridays Has Been Canceled!

As of June 1st, Thursday Night Fridays has been canceled indefinitely.

No Excuses

The trend of the weekend has been, “Philip, I hurt for you.” “Philip, they’re assholes!” It has been the talk all weekend because people that are close to me think that everyone should understand me, and like me. It’s true. I don’t really have a lot of friends. But that’s because I prefer it that…

Boys and Their Toys

I should probably create another blog category called "Geek Fest" but having multiple displays for so many years, I can't believe I was never made aware of this Windows feature for so long.

So Was a $3,852 Display Upgrade Worth It?

Short answer? No. Do I want to return everything? No. Do I have buyer’s remorse? No. And yes. “WHAT are you talking about, Philip?”

Upgrading from an $80 $380.00 Keyboard to a $75 One

No keyboard in my 28 years of computing has ever become such an extraordinary part of my daily computing process as that of the Logitech K811 keyboard. In fact, I've never really thought about keyboard usage all that much until that day came when I became sick & tired of those God-awful mechanical keyboards.

Alexa’s a Coding Co-Worker Now

While I tend to work with various AI assistants when applying custom coding to stuff on my site & other projects, I never really thought of Alexa as that type of assistant outside of turning the lights off.

AI Coding Limitations

AI really needs to step up when it comes to analyzing web pages for coding suggestions. More often than not, I have to provide them with the HTML of a section of the page for them to be able to read it.

Jetpack Comments Configuration for WordPress

Hopefully a helpful post for those that fell down the rabbit hole looking for answers to why the social media options don't show when testing your Jetpack comments in WordPress.

The AI Trade

Even when I was out of work and decided to contract technical support out to people, I used my own ticketing system. It's just the way my brain thinks and learns to approach & prioritize the needs of my customers.In 2026, nothing has changed when it comes to that, except for one certain thing.

Talent, Creation vs. Technology

My reasoning was, and is, that I can try so hard to max my skills, be creative, spend years learning guitar, buy a shit ton of studio equipment, and will never be "the best" or adequately communicate, uniquely who I am in that respect.