I just purchased a Model 3 Tesla, and this car make me smile everyday.  I takes me back to teenage years when driving was fun and my parents could send me on errands, because there was Joy in driving.

I have a great deal on fun showing the self driving off to others, not to mention just the fun features like driving on Mars.  I just got my first software update, without going to a dealer, and the car added the new feature of attaching driver profiles to your keys.

Ford would never let you drive on Mars and I strongly believe GM would never just add a nice feature like driver profile to your key without a major charge and a long wait at a dealers service center.

I bought, yes, bought music from the iTunes music store on my phone.  Apple is making owning music very difficult for people who don’t want Apple’s streaming site. (I got in to Pandora first, and don’t want to try this new offering.)  Most of my playlists are automatic, an example: play the all music I rated as 5 stars.  I spent several minutes trying to find where the new iOS where to set the stars; when the new heart per song is clearly visible.

Giving up that day and trying web searches today, I found the stars can be seen by clicking song title in “Now Playing” mode.  iPhone used to be intuitive, but now you need to be shown tricks to use desired features.

I took the photo above in a fancy Buenos Aires hotel room, while reading “The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google” by Nicholas Carr.

I do recommend the book, but I think he missed one great observation.  While appliance voltage and plugs are non-standard world wide: the wired ethernet is standard.  On the far right is 220, and in the middle is 110, the left is the RJ45 running the standard of between 0 and 2.5 volts depending on speeds.  (100 Base-TX uses +/-1 and 0 volts.)

Upon further reflection it isn’t strange that Ethernet is a world standard. The unfamiliar 220 volts and connectors of Argentina ends at the country’s border, where the Ethernet will connect me with friends in Atlanta 5013 miles or 8067 km away.

I put off purchasing the IPad for years, because when I tried the first version of the iPad  years ago; I couldn’t type on hard glass.  I bought a MacBook Air instead.

I finally broke down; then I found the Zagg wireless keyboard, the version not built in to a cover.  To dictate you need to bring up the on-screen keyboard with the microphone button, The keyboard comes with a button just to do this.

The keyboard button wasn’t working consistently.  (In the photo it is fourth from left on top row.) I had to play around with the technology and I found out that it’s how the Bluetooth wireless was connected to the device.

You have to start a Bluetooth on the iPad first then turn on the keyboard.

This procedure wasn’t intuitive or written up on the web.

I believe that 99% of the people would think that it is a malfunction of either the iPad or the keyboard.