Why I Turn Down Jobs (And Why That's Good for Business)
Twenty-five years of freelancing taught me that saying no to the wrong job is sometimes the most valuable thing I do all week.
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Flashback Friday: Dial-Up, ICQ, and the Sound of Getting Online
That screech-and-hiss handshake sound. The ICQ "uh oh." Tying up the home phone line for hours. A tribute to the genuinely chaotic early internet.
When a Drone Found What a Search Team Could Not
Ground crews had walked the area twice. A thermal drone found the missing person in under ten minutes. Here is what that taught me about combining old and new methods.
The Phone Call That Sounded Exactly Like Me
My voice goes out on community radio every fortnight. That makes me an unusually easy target for AI voice cloning — and a useful case study in why everyone should care.
The First Website I Ever Built (And Everything Wrong With It)
Animated GIFs, a visitor counter, and a MIDI file that played automatically. My first website was a glorious disaster — and I learned more from it than from anything since.
I Tried Replacing My Morning Admin With AI for a Month. Here's What Actually Stuck.
A month-long experiment in handing my admin grind to AI tools — what genuinely saved time, and what was a waste of a perfectly good morning.
What My Time on Community Radio Taught Me About Talking to Strangers
Co-hosting Tech Time on 92.3FM 2YYY taught me more about communicating with customers than any business course ever did.
The Most Common Reason Phones Die (And It's Not What You Think)
Everyone blames the battery. After 25 years of repairs, here is what is actually killing most of the phones that come across my bench.
Flashback Friday: The Nokia 3310 and the Repair That Started It All
Long before Your Local Tech Solutions, there was a cracked Nokia 3310, a butter knife, and a kitchen table. This is where it all started.