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  • Massively Useful’s first song is up on Bandcamp!

    Instrumental rock guitar: more Delicate Steve than Steve Vai; more looping than songwriting. To be honest, this wasn’t the result of trying to record a song – at first, it was just trying to learn how to use Logic Pro…

    Massively Useful’s first song is up on Bandcamp!

  • Fender Mustang GTX Preset for Fleetwood Mac

    This preset takes just a few clicks and twists to build from scratch on any Fender Mustang GTX amp. It delivers a consistent tone that works well at band volume, and it replicates a classic minimalist pedalboard: drive, delay, and…

  • How to add and maintain references to appendices, including page numbers (without going crazy)

    Say you have a document with a main body and several appendices with supporting information in different sections. You want to make references in the main body to the appendices, including the name of the section and the page number.…

  • Malware masquerading as repair tools

    Wow, my hat is off to this crew. (Warning: malware ahead, so I’m not linking to any of the sites or searches referenced.) I’ve been getting this error when trying to accept autoupdate prompts from the WebEx Outlook plugin: After…

  • Tesla Model 3: Seattle to Crystal Mountain and back – can it be done without recharging?

    This post answers the question – can you take a Tesla Model 3 on a multi-day ski trip from Seattle to Crystal Mountain and back without recharging? Even when: there are 4 people in the car fully loaded with ski…

  • Book recommendation: Storytelling with Data

    I want to recommend a very useful book: Storytelling with Data, by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic. It’s available from the Seattle Public Library. (I wish I could credit where I heard about it, all I know is I put it on…

  • The Lost Macalester I-Fries Recipe, Reconstructed

    Aka Italian Fries, as served at the Grill in Macalester College‘s old Student Union (circa 1990s, before the remodel and adding an extra “e” to create the Grille, which seems WAY too healthy to ever serve such a concoction). I…

  • Finding Free Images for Presentations

    Ready to move beyond bullet points for your presentations? People are visual. If you’re sharing data, try creating a data visualization, instead of a table of numbers. (See Tufte for a start on this.) And if you’re conveying an idea,…

  • Testing telephone URI links

    Just testing phone links in iOS. Here’s a tel: URL: 1-408-555-5555 And here’s a phone number with no HTML tags: 1-408-555-5555

  • Building a Tableau dataviz of Tesla Model 3 reservation data

    Twice as many Americans as Germans want self-driving cars. That’s one of the first things I learned from asking the next set of questions. About 400,000 people have put down $1000 each to reserve Tesla’s upcoming Model 3 – the all-electric, potentially…