Since I’ve started eating better, the second phase to Operation Be Less Fat is exercise. All this week I have taken walks around the National Mall and Capitol Building. Working in DC does have its advantages for lunch-time strolls around the city. The constant influx of tourists makes for superb people-watching.
I’ve been taking pictures as I walked because it’s relaxing. It’s a Friday in the summer. Enjoy some ducks.
This morning a friend Tweeted in horror that managing wireless profiles in Windows 8 required using the Command Line. Windows had decided to hand on to a wireless network so she couldn’t connect to a new access point.
Are you shitting me, Windows 8? I have to remove wireless profiles via COMMAND LINE???? Sweet Thor's nipples, I hate this operating system.— Reesa Herberth (@reesah) July 24, 2014
I was shocked this was the method prescribed by Microsoft so I had to look. And she is right.
Some tasks, such as deleting a profile, must be done at the command
prompt. To do these tasks, open Command Prompt, and then type the
appropriate command from the following table.
At the command prompt you need to type netsh wlan delete profile name=”ProfileName”. This is how you can remove a wireless profile in Windows 8. There had to be a better way.
Up to Windows 7, previously connected wireless networks were saved and
viewable via the Preferred Wireless Network List, but this feature seems
to have been removed in Windows 8. Microsoft probably removed it as
they have added a supposedly smart feature, that handles wireless
profiles by how much you connect to it.
— WiFi Profile Manager 8: View Preferred Wireless Network Profiles in Windows 8
Wifi Profile Manager 8 is a freeware application released Lee Whittington for The Windows Club.
The author notes some people have had success with the application while others have not. But if the command line scares you or if you think it’s absurd to have to use it to do something that was very easy in Windows 7, try it out.
Inspired by Conor McClure’s post about the Whole 30, I am sharing what my wife and I are doing.
In an ongoing quest to eat like adults, we tried Blue Apron. The food was good and fresh. The meals were delicious and we’ve saved many of the recipes we prepared.
But eventually we stopped making the food. While they ship everything you need (short of salt and pepper) in the box, there is a lot of chopping and slicing.
The meals were delicious but rarely had enough leftover for lunches the next day. This is the second part of the healthy eating struggle.
Because of this, paired with issues retrieving packages at the condo we rent, we gave up on them. This is not a failing of them. But a failing in ourselves.
We both work full-time. We’d rather collapse on the couch and not cook for hours in the kitchen. But we also don’t want to order pizza every night either.
The Fresh 20 is built around a week of meals where you shop for 20 ingredients (which they say can take about 20 minutes). The meals are listed with easy-to-follow recipes. Each of the week’s meals has a list of ingredients with portions listed. Though the very best part is the shopping list they offer.
Last night, we went to the grocery store and found all 20 ingredients. And we don’t shop at a fancy grocery store. We often struggle to find certain common herbs. But we routinely find everything we need with little effort. These aren’t gourmet ingredients we’d have to shop around to find.
There is minimal prep work, usually chopping or marinating. This is all spelled out for the five meals on the sheet with the meals listed so there are no surprises.
We use the Classic menu and I’ve been very happy with the variety of meals each week. There are also gluten-free, vegetarian, dairy-free and kosher meal plans. They also have plans for lunch and single people.
We have been doing this for about three weeks and every meal has been great. Their recipes feed a family of four, which is perfect for the two of us. This gives us dinner and lunch the next day.
Three months of The Fresh 20 will only run you $18. The annual plan is $54. Once you sign up, you’ll not only have access to a new meal plan every week, you’ll also be able to see their entire archive of meal plans. We are eating a plan from early June this week.
To be clear, they do not send you any food. They make simple, easy to follow (and shop for) meal plans. While it’s not easier than ordering pizza, it’s cheaper and more satisfying. I highly recommend trying it out. You can sign up for a free meal plan on their website. And when you fall in love with it, I know you’ll sign up and eat like a healthier adult.
Please top me if you’ve heard this one before.
I have _________ anti-virus installed on my computer but…
But I thought the subscription was up to date. It wasn’t and I got infected.
But I thought I had paid for protection. But I hadn’t and I got infected.
But I got a virus anyway because it wasn’t up to date.
Stop paying for Anti-Virus protection.
Microsoft has a product called Security Essentials. It’s free to download and install. The updates are free and they are pushed along with Windows Updates. You are installing Windows Updates at least once a week, right?
Download Microsoft Security Essentials.
This will keep your computer protected against viruses. Your updates will never stop. You never have to pay for them. As long as you’re updating your computer, your anti-virus will stay up to date too.
Stop paying for what you can get free. Don’t find yourself paying a local computer tech or bribing a family member to clean the virus off your computer. Don’t allow yourself to be without your computer because it’s infected.
Download Microsoft Security Essentials and don’t give it another thought.
I don’t know what to say nor what to write. Ever since I visited California I’ve been different.
Ever since I walked through the Red Woods at Muir Woods and gazed upon Yosemite’s peaks and valleys I have not been the same.
It would be easy to think how being so close to the birthplace of computers and Silicon Valley would inspire me to do more in tech. But it’s been just the opposite.
I want less to do with it now more than ever.
I visited the HP Garage. I rode by Steve Jobs’ house (and felt a little dirty) and the original Facebook house.
I saw the current Facebook offices. I drove past Mozilla. I saw the ASK.com and ART.com buildings. I was not far from the Googleplex nor Apple. But I didn’t go. I didn’t even try.
After sitting in a grove of Red Woods or seeing the mighty sequoia trees, the iPhone doesn’t compare.
Tech especially the bubble of apps and phones it has become seems to small and insignificant. There is no future there. Nothing lasts. Everything is ephemeral.
The Red Woods are measured in terms of decades, event centuries. They were here long before any of us and will stay long after we go.
It brings some perspective to the world where everything is hyped beyond belief and each tiny change is a major disruption of an entire industry.
Technology is not interesting to me. I don’t care what the latest device can do.
My iPhone was the perfect traveling companion for this trip. It was my camera. It was my GPS device. It spent a lot of the day on airplane mode while I was exploring the forests and National Park.
I didn’t want to let the world in, I wanted to enjoy it. I wanted to capture it.
Did you know the panorama mode works brilliantly when used vertically?
I was able to capture the towering trees by slowly panning up them. It made me smile when I figured it out and now I have some photos of the huge trees to enjoy.
The phone isn’t important for how much RAM it has or what network it’s on. It doesn’t matter what version it is or how I feel about it.
It matters because it was a great camera. Paired with a Canon S90, it captured my wife and I on vacation. It captures where we went and what we did. It helps me remember.
I have a poor memory and it helps to look at a few photos. Then the other times come flooding back. The soft breeze as it washed over me. The smell of a nearby cedar forest. The one obnoxious woman on her cell phone at Glacier Point.
The phone is a tool. It allowed me to find my way through a foreign place and capture the beauty I saw there.
It was important for what it allowed me to do. Not for what it was. It could have been any number of phones or devices and accomplished the same thing.
It enabled me to enjoy myself. That is what technology should be.
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