Tuesday Tips: January 18, 2022

 TECH TIP:  Google Status Dashboard

Thanks to Tom Roy for this week's tip!  If you ever find that any of your Google Apps aren't working (like Gmail, Docs, Meet, Calendar, etc), you can quickly check the Google Status Dashboard.  This will tell you if the issue is one at Google globally or something on our end.  As long as the item has a green check at the Status Dashboard, it is good with Google.

and if you want to see if your computer is on, go to:  http://ismycomputeron.com/

BOOK TIP: Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Family by Patrick Radden Keefe

 Empire of Pain is an incredible work of non-fiction by Patrick Radden Keefe (author of another of my favorite non-fiction book of 2020: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Mayhem in Northern Ireland).  It tells the story of the Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma.  Purdue Pharma is the company who makes OxyContin, and might be fully responsible for creating the opioid crisis.  It's a masterpiece of narrative non-fiction and will make you think twice about the pharmaceutical industry.