A bit of this and bit of that goes into a garden compost to make a fertile soil amendment. So these posts, when taken together, create a fertile environment for this blog to grow. It’s also not lost on me that I just compared half of my blog posts to rotting and decomposing plant matter.
Late last year my family and I moved to a two story, 1970’s era house on 1 1/2 acres of land. Since then I’ve been thinking about retrofitting the house with Ethernet cable to most rooms. This is just one of many projects I have planned to update the house and add a few “smart home” features to …
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My entire day had been wasted. My kids were complaining that they hadn’t seen me all day. My wife was giving me that concerned “Oh dear, he’s trying to do smart people things again” look. Even my dog seemed annoyed at me that I had spent more time typing “make install” than I had spent throwing her ball.
With Linkedin allowing background photos for your profile you now have one more way to express yourself creatively on the platform. But Linkedin isn’t Facebook. It’s a professional network and is typically understood to have professionally presented profiles. Having a clean, flat layout with a simple blue and grayscale color scheme has helped keep Linkedin profiles in …
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There are those moments when you realize that certain sports just aren’t worth it. I spotted this encouraging sign in a pile of old junk while hiking a local ski resort in the off season. It does encourage me not to crash but mostly by convincing me not to take up skiing. I wonder …
The International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators is cautioning all potential travelers to Antarctica who pine to fly a drone to check with their travel agent or tour operator before packing their device. Jennifer Harper – The Washington Times Tourists are pining to fly drones in Antarctica? What kind of tourist pines to fly drones in …
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Tidings of a new browser coming from Microsoft have some wondering whether IE is on its last legs. The sad news is that there are still so many old versions (7, 8 and 9) sitting on millions of computers, and their users don’t know any better. So even if Spartan, or its children, eventually displace Internet …
Letterboxing is an old activity, somewhat related to both geocaching and orienteering. It involves navigating from a given starting point to a cached box containing a log book and a rubber stamp. Navigation consists of anything from following riddles and printed clues to compass directions and distances. The low-tech nature of letterboxing is one of …
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There is no doubt we live in a geospatial age. We are inundated with location based data wherever we turn. While some mapping applications like OpenStreetMap appeal to targeted users, others such as Google maps, Bing Maps, Yahoo Maps and MapQuest are main stream and are accessed by millions of users every day. But are …
I took a look in the top drawer of my desk at work the other day. I’m not talking about the glance you give when you throw something in that you might need “someday”. I actually looked at what was in there. It was kind of scary what I had let accumulate. Here is a …