It was April 1997, and I had just finished producing the corporate newsletter for a small but highly successful company named Livingston Enterprises, located in Pleasanton. Livingston then was manufacturing a compact data network router called “The Portmaster” that had become a hot product for Internet Service Providers worldwide. Suddenly an unfamiliar woman in her […]
A Different Drummer: Raspberry Pi and I
MY DAUGHTER KRISTI TEXTED ME A MONTH AGO WITH A CRYPTIC QUESTION. She wrote, “Tyler wants a Raspberry Pi. Should I get him one?” Tyler is my 10-year-old grandson. I didn’t immediately respond because I didn’t know what the heck she was talking about. I knew, by the spelling, it wasn’t food. I quickly Googled […]