Many times, a chat begins during a Teams meeting and the conversation continues long after the meeting concludes–sometimes even for weeks or months. When recurring meetings are set up, the same meeting chat is reused for each occurrence, and this keeps the chat momentum in the right place. But did... [Read More]

My father-in-law’s iPhone recently died. More specifically, the screen died while the rest of the phone remained functional. After a few service attempts, Apple finally replaced his phone. Unfortunately though, the representative at the Best Buy (Apple service center) chose to set his replacement phone up as a new phone... [Read More]

Back in 2003, I had the pleasure of contributing to an exciting project: StatsWorld Fantasy Football. I had been a passive fan of American Football my whole life, but I’d never studied the game and I’d never participated in fantasy sports. Working on StatsWorld gave me the opportunity to learn... [Read More]

I’ve recently been setting up and resetting several machines. One task in my setup list is to get my custom Edge search engines configured. Unfortunately, Edge does not synchronize custom search engines as part of profile data (Chrome does). But I synchronize this data myself. [Read More]

I’ve recently set up or reset multiple PCs. Some of them were personal machines and others were work-issued machines. When resetting a work-issued machine while at the office, I found a specific series of steps that accomplished the end state I desired. [Read More]