April 7, 2017 Tonight at Midnight, the City of Tulsa will close an online web design competition for a new pedestrian bridge at basically 34th & Riverside. The old Midland railroad bridge is structurally unsound, and is needs to be replaced with something that will match the new look of the area, courtesy of A Gathering…
-
-
April 3, 2017 Back in December I wrote a post about our experiences with OurPact, a lovely program to control screen time on iPads, iPhones, and Android devices. You can read about it here. Now I’m back to tell you our thoughts about the newest version: OurPact Premium. The changes are big enough that it…
-
March 7, 2017 A word to prospective employees: If you fancy a career in technology, you’re probably going to start off in tech support, maybe the Help Desk. You may find yourself better able to do the job if you’re a tinkerer, or have some sort of hobby that involves doing things with your hands.…
-
February 21, 2017 Trust me: it’s pretty hard being me. The weight of the world is upon me, and there’s not enough of me and my wisdom to go around. Lost opportunities for civilization abound, when I’m indisposed elsewhere… Now that everyone has lost their lunches, I just HAVE to tell you about a missed…
-
February 7, 2017 Not long ago I was reading about Domino’s Pizza and their efforts with their phone apps on what they call “frictionless ordering,” or the Zero Click App. You can read about it here. The assumption is if you order pizza from Domino’s, you’re probably going to order what you did before. So…
-
February 2, 2017 I don’t know if most IT practitioners start off as Sci-Fi fans, but ever since I was a young reader, I’ve loved science fiction, but not to the point of being rabid or having a single unrelenting focus. I remember in 4th and 5th grade devouring all the Jules Verne books, which…
-
January 27, 2017 Many of you know that my Dad, Gergely “Greg” Szabo, came to the US in 1957 via the Hungarian Revolution. He died in 1994. When I was kid, my Dad told me a “sanitized” version of his part in the uprising, which now, no matter how much more of the truth I know,…
-
January 3, 2017 For those of you who know me/us well, you know that we’re generally homebodies…particularly in 2016, when (1) our home was for sale, (2) we had to find a rental in the Jenks district, and (3) we had to move/clean/prep our old house for the rental market when time ran out this…
-
I’ve asked this question back over Thanksgiving weekend on Facebook: Parents: Over the long holiday we’ve fully implemented the OurPact app to control/curtail screen time for Pi. Anyone else using it? Any advice on achieving a happy middle ground between total block and total open? And I thought I’d expand this into a blog post to…
-
Back in the Summer I sat with a visitor at my church, the adult chaperone of 15 Iraqi high school students who were touring parts of the U.S., learning about the various career choices that might be available to them. After visiting Vermont, and then Oklahoma, they went to Washington D.C. before heading back to their school…