The rich history of the car manufacturer that most people don’t know existed. Tatra is a Czech vehicle manufacturer from Kopřivnice. It is owned by the TATRA TRUCKS a.s. company, and it is the third oldest company in the world producing cars with an unbroken history. The company was founded in 1850 as Ignatz Schustala […]
How The Philippines Got Asia’s Worst Internet Service
A traveler to the Philippines knows the dance too well. You check into a hotel that advertises Wi-Fi. Turns out it’s only available in the lobby, and only in the daytime. Then you learn of a freak service outage in the lobby. When you do eventually connect, no websites come up. On better days, each […]
DIY Powerwall
With solar panel technology being more mature in design, efficiency and a lot cheaper to make, I thought I would write about some of the things to consider before dishing-out a ton of money on a pre-built package like the Tesla Powerwall or many other similar packages that are on the market. While some of […]
Website Traffic Boosting
In the internet world you have the big players like those in the graphic below and you have the small peoples like us. Getting any kind of recognition can be very daunting task to say the least. Granted, these now mega corporations were not always so mega. A quick look at the website web archive, […]
The Tankless Water Heater
The first tankless water heater dates back to somewhere around the Roman days, but not quite what you might expect or think of and there most certainly was not any plumbing to speak of. Another type of water heater developed in Europe predated the storage model. In London, England, in 1868, a painter named Benjamin […]