A surge protector may not be enough to ensure that the computers on your home network and the network components, such as modem and router, are safe in a violent electrical storm. After losing my modem to lightening several years ago–yes, even though I was using a surge protector–I’ve taken to unplugging the power lines […]
To get good nature video close ups you need to use a tripod, and lugging a heavy one over uneven ground is a killer! If your videocam is light like mine, a relatively light and inexpensive tripod, with a light weight video head will do just fine. I tried shooting video with a ball head […]
It’s about twenty minutes since I sat down at my computer to do some work and my house shook. Nothing crashed or broke. There was no noise, except for my scanner knocking a bit as the whole house rolled with the undulations. It felt like I was aboard a boat at mooring, and rolling from […]