Earlier this month we spent a few days at beach to cool off from the summer heat.
Category Archives: General Talk
4 Million: What’s in a Number?
Today I received a message that this website’s software needed to be updated with a couple new versions.
Typical stuff. Software updates are supposed fix bugs, and more importantly to me, patch security vulnerabilities. So I installed the updates. As I usually do, I took a quick tour to ensure everything was working. At the bottom of the sidebar, I saw the Page View statistics.
The Problem with Product Reviews
With the advent of the Internet and online shopping, the potential to become more informed buyers has lost its promise.
Instead, product reviews have mostly become a for-profit enterprise that only benefits manufacturers and those who make a living reviewing products.
Where Have the Excellent Camping and Backpacking Adventures Gone?
So the title of this site is “Nick’s Excellent Camping and Backpacking Adventures.”
But there haven’t been many adventures to write about in the past year, and zero since Joyce broke her ankle last September.
That is about to change.
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Can You Help My Friends Katharina and Chris?
Chris and Kat live just north of Santa Cruz, California. They lost their home and most of their belongings in the recent fires. To make matters worse, three of their kids also lost their homes in the fires.
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