Author: Joe Nord

Recently purchased a Samsung MX-T40 Bluetooth speaker. Its a nice box, sounds good, but at the same time has me ask serious questions about activities in software engineering. This device has many capabilities including Bluetooth streaming and USB audio playback. I learn that the USB audio playback has a rather serious omission that really should […]

In pre-trip testing, discovered that the WifiRanger Apsen -> Dinali -> house WiFi was struggling to maintain a connection. Near constant power cycles were required to get a computer to connect. Debugged and concluded that the Dinali and likely also the newer Everest must be connected to the Aspen on LAN port #1, and learned […]

LIMSPEC, HIMEM.sys and EMM386.sys.  So that this history is not lost, here is more information on expanded memory managers than you ever wanted to know. What is EMM386? EMM386 is the DOS 5 implemented device driver to implement an EXPANDED memory manager in DOS using the services of the 80386 processor instead of dedicated hardware.  […]

Back in August, I wrote a pretty detailed article on construction of a dinghy tow harness for use with my Highfield 330 Dinghy being towed behind catamaran sailboat. That article is here. Today, with completion of a 500 mile tow, I can share images and videos of the tow underway as well as lessons learned […]

I have a Highfield 330 Sport dinghy and I’ve been through a few dinghy tow harnesses. I now believe I have a solution that will stand the test of time, allowing all 3 attach points to be used for redundancy, and still allowing close control of where the dinghy tows behind the larger boat. This […]

Thank you all who have commented on this blog and gone through the manual steps to sign up with an account on the WordPress system, author a comment and then wait for me to see it, and approve before it becomes visible. This whole thing can take a day or two on a good case […]

Many years ago I wrote a web posting of how to solve the Cracker Barrel golf tee triangle board peg game puzzle. This is now located on this blog in a preceding post here. In updating that blog for a solution of finish hole equals to the starting empty hole, I was troubled that the […]

When visiting the Cracker Barrel restaurant, you will find a 15-peg triangle board game on each table.  This page describes how to solve the puzzle from any starting position. Update: June 2021. Moved from web page to blog and added solutions for finish position equal start position. The game board is a triangle with 15 […]

In setting up WordPress recently on this website, I discovered that getting SMTP working for blog email notifications was more complicated than I expected. This post shows the solution. No, I don’t have the ability for anyone to post or comment yet, but someday that will come and it will be sure welcome to get […]

Updated my website to use version 8.0 of PHP and B2evolution stopped working. Was able to repair it enough to see blog posts again and managed to extract the content. This was the sign I needed to retire the old blog manager and move into the times with WordPress. Technically I used WordPress before B2evolution, […]