Vanessa Wingårdh’s video, Subscription Scam: We’ve Been Tricked!, reminded me to check through my current subscriptions and I thoroughly recommend taking a few minutes to check it out. She provides a number of examples from other YouTubers who have discovered just how insidious the subscription trap can be and how easy it is to rack up hundreds of dollars in charges or more every year.
Statement on A.I. Use – September 2025
From the introduction to Self-Guided SQL – I continue to define my use of A.I. every day as the tools evolve and I face new situations but this still sums it up well. There is one thing that will not change as long as I continue to create and share content and that is that […]
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Python and SQLite
I’m starting another review of my recently published book, Self-Guided SQL: Build Your SQL Skills with SQLite, looking for anything I might have missed, and one thought I had was adding more material on how to access SQLite from programming environments. A couple of months ago, I uploaded a video on how to create a […]
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Python Revisited
Listen to this post or continue reading below. (Audio provided by ElevenLabs.) It seems like, every few years, I get the urge to play around with Python programming. This time, I found myself looking at some of my old BASIC files from back in the day and knew I needed a better challenge so I […]
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External DVD Drive Won’t Play Movies
Listen to this post or continue reading below. (Audio provided by ElevenLabs.) I just picked up an Amicool External DVD Drive after I realized I’d lost my last means of accessing DVDs when my old computer died. There was no setup and no external power source – just plug it in to the USB, insert […]
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C# Project Review – Mortgage and Savings Calculations
Several years ago, during my short time as a programming instructor, I came up with an assignment for the students where I asked them to create a financial calculator that would calculate mortgage statistics and savings accumulated with compound interest. Of course, I designed my own version and posted it to Github. While looking over […]
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Evaluating the Kamrui Essenx Mini PC
Listen to this article or continue reading below. (Audio provided by ElevenLabs.) Kamrui Essenx E1 Specs and Features Leaving the Tower (This article contains affiliate links to Amazon.com. The products shown have been personally reviewed by the author and found to meet the standards for advertising and recommendation on ComeauSoftware.com.) I lost my old tower […]
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Using Console Commands in SQLite
The SQLite console, also known as the command line interface or CLI, is a powerful tool for working with SQLite databases. While many people, myself included, often prefer a graphical environment, there are a lot of things that can be done quickly in the console with its collection of commands. There are dozens of commands […]
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The World Beyond Google
There’s a popular list of alternative search engines being circulated on Facebook, LinkedIn and other sites. The posts usually start with the words “Google is so powerful that it ‘hides’ other search systems from us …”. I was trying to find it the other day for a friend and it’s obviously so widespread that Google’s […]
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Excel Sorting and AI Voiceovers
In my latest video, I demonstrate how to sort rows randomly in Excel using a collection of test questions and answers that will be featured in the next update of my book, “Self-Guided SQL“. What’s really interesting about this video is the voiceover provided by the A.I. text-to-speech app from ElevenLabs.io. Voiceovers have always been […]
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