Last year when we put on a new roof to our house, I scrambled to come up with a new home media wiring plan. The wires only cost maybe $200 for all-you-can-eat HDMI and cat6, and the roof costs closer to $25K. So, while we had the plywood decking ripped up, we had [...]
During our Christmas visit to Arizona, Katie and I pulled out all of Katie’s parents’ old slides and enjoyed an old school slideshow, including the circa 1970 Honewell slide projector, dog eared slides, and a lot of manual effort.
I really want to digitize many of these slides, especially some of the early Katie [...]
One constant source of annoyance to me when typing an email in outlook is when outlook irreversibly mangles the formatting of my message when I paste something from another email or document. To make the problem even more irritating is the fact that Outlook doesn’t give me the option to “paste special” and just [...]
In my stereo cabinet, I have 8 devices, all of which have their own switches. . For the most part, when one is on, I want all of them on. And when I turn it off, I want to turn everything off. Needless to say, it is annoying to have [...]
Stephanie forwarded an email to us about One Block Off the Grid, an organization that purchases and installs solar in bulk, ostensibly passing the savings on to you.
I had thought a bit about solar before, but never seriously, because I didn’t want to lay out a ton of money only to find out that Oregon [...]
Finally got around to the economist’s technology quarterly for Q4′2008. I always find the articles fascinating, and this issue was no exception.
Probably the most interesting article in this issue, “Let the Sun Shine In”, discusses Space Solar Power, an alternative energy option that is enjoying some renewed interest. What is it? Well, [...]