ROBERT OWEN — Technology Leader & Musician
Technology leadership, music, and the space where they overlap

Snow-pocalypse 2025 – part 3

January 10, 2025 – 3:42 PMDiary of a Snowbound Visionary, Day 3 (Still Day 1) Dear future generations, After my harrowing return to basecamp (home), power was fully restored, and I resumed my mission: working like normal, fingers dancing across the keyboard while the outside world succumbed to the fury of nature. The snow, I assumed, continued to fall—but who … Read more

Snow-pocalypse 2025 – part 2

January 10, 2025 – 12:14 PMDiary of a Snowbound Visionary, Day 2 (Still Day 1) Dear future historians, Much has transpired since my last entry. Shortly after sipping my Super Orange Emergen-C and mocking the absence of snow, trouble struck the heart of civilization—Corporate experienced technical issues. In the absence of any actual blizzard-related peril, digital chaos reigned supreme. I … Read more

Snow-pocalypse 2025?

January 10, 2025 – 6:59 AM Diary of a Snowbound Visionary, Day 1 Good morning. As I sit sipping my Super Orange Emergen-C, a beverage of champions and germ-fighters alike, I contemplate the beginning of Snow-pocalypse 2025 – January Edition. The powdery fury that was foretold has yet to descend, but hope—or dread—lingers. Milk and bread supplies are already reaching … Read more

Instagram Photos

Never seem to have my good camera handy enough so, I created an instagram account for all these glorious phone pictures. Having some issues getting the feeds to work properly now to changes in the Instagram API – for now, here’s my profile View this profile on Instagram Robert A. Owen (@robert.a.owen) • Instagram photos and videos

Windows 10 – Forget Wireless Network

Long time, no type.  🙂 Like most things on this site, the information is here because I keep forgetting how to do something. I upgraded everything to Windows 10  and think its really pretty good.  But, that’s a conversation for another post.  The reason for this post is the AT&T line coming into my house was struck by lightning a couple … Read more

Powershell to check and start a service

Ok, this one is not funny.  My posts are few and far between these days and they are mostly limited to pictures or something I find funny.  But, I was going through one of my Onenote files tonight and ran across this powershell script I wrote a while back and thought I would share. When I put this script together, I was having … Read more