I posted a blog a while back about how my computer would not start on Christmas Morning. Well, this morning it did it again. I would press the power button on the computer would turn on, then turn off, then turn on, then turn off and it would continue until I either unplug the power or press and hold the power button. Crap! So I disconnected everything and changed the battery on the motherboard… again….
Read moreI’ve been working on a computer since I got out of the Air Force in 1987. It was an IBM PS 2 connected to a spectrometer in a metallurgical laboratory in Birmingham Al. I’ve owned a personal computer since 1991. It was handmade by some guy in California and came with a 10mb hard drive. It was state of the art to be sure. I learned about the internet on that computer, which was not…
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I turned on my phone this morning and was greeted by an ominous email from The “Google Search Console Team,” with the seeming dire warning… They provided me with a link to the console where I was told that the page davidfrancis.org/2023/02/ would not be indexed by Google because it contained the meta tag “noindex.” I brought up the page, looked at the source, and sure enough, it was there. While few people know what…
Read moreMardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama is celebrated annually in the weeks leading up to Fat Tuesday, which falls on the day before Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the Lenten season in the Christian calendar. The exact dates of Mobile’s Mardi Gras festivities vary from year to year, but typically fall in February or early March. The celebration usually lasts for several weeks and includes a variety of parades, balls, and other events. Mardi Gras in…
Read moreI really hadn’t planned to do a video review of ice cube trays but I wanted to show you how great these work and how nice the balls of ice look in the glass. Mainly, I wanted to show you how to fill these properly since these came with no instructions. ↓↓↓↓↓YouTube Video Loads Here↓↓↓↓↓ The bottom tray is the one with the sides that come up higher than the cups. Fill the bottom all…
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Technically, I’m a Gen Xer (by a few short days), but I relate more with the Boomer… and now, I’m a proud Viner! A lot has happened since I posted back in November. Besides the fact I closed our restaurant on December 31st (a whole different post), I have been accepted to the Amazon Vine program and have also been selected as an Amazon Influencer. Whew! I have been working on that for a few years now. (By writing…
Read moreThought for the day, 17th February 2023 “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers This quote reminds us that it’s important to focus on the present moment and not get bogged down by past mistakes or regrets. Every day is a new opportunity to make progress and create the life you want. So don’t let the past hold you back from moving forward and achieving your goals. Embrace the present…
Read moreI recently did a search for “old YouTube videos and the results came up… it was “Meet me at the Zoo” by YouTube co-founder, jawed aka Jawed Karim on April 23, 2005. That got me to thinking, I uploaded one a long time ago… actually 16 years ago on October 29, 2006. It’s on an old account that I cannot access but it’s me, this website davidfrancis.org is in the about section. Anyway… here it…
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Carrie and I enjoyed a nice Christmas morning, we exchanged gifts and enjoyed our traditional breakfast ham sandwiches. She picked up her phone and I headed to my office to “check the internet.” I pressed the on button and my 2.5-year-old computer tried to turn on, then turned off, then on, then off, on, off, on, off… well dangit. SKIP TO THE CHASE:The motherboard BIOS battery was dead.1) Remove Battery2) Discharge Current3) Replace Battery I…
Read moreVideo below: It took some doing, but I figured out a solution to my 1993 Cadillac DeVille Trunk Pull Down Motor issue. It wasn’t the motor, and it wasn’t the switch… a little old-school ingenuity solved this issue for free. What happened? My wife pops the trunk and reports it popped much louder than normal and then when she closed it, the latch would not retract at all. She was right, but we were at…
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