Intro A year ago, I moved nearer to Golden Gate Bridge and seeing the ships come in made me wonder how they’re tracked. I had seen websites like this one, and was curious how...
Tasker is probably my favorite Android app. It gives you total control over your device. Not to mention there’s a great community that develops all sorts of interesting tasks/integrations. I was recently on a...
I use Domoticz for my home automation needs. I’ll just start off by saying it has its pros and cons. Pros: It seems to have pretty wide device support It allows for a completely...
Intro I’ve recently been getting a slew of e-mails from recruiters. Horray! Right? Except…no. Don’t get me wrong: we all have jobs and I’m happy to get e-mails from recruiters. The issue is that...
Government debt sounds scary! If debt is bad on an individual basis, shouldn’t we seek to eliminate debt? And “you can’t spend your way out of debt!” Except all of this is a pretty simplistic...
First World Problems I live in San Francisco where our coffee is strong, our alcohol is stronger, and our public transit system (Muni) is weak. OK, that’s not entirely fair, but Muni is slow and unreliable:...
The back-story: As one of my friends has stated… The Internet is a scary place without Adblock It’s true. And while I think he was largely referring to the ubiquity and annoying nature of many...
Recently, I’ve read a few articles published about the “Like” button on Facebook. These have been done after some “research” conducted by the author using their own Facebook page as a source of data....
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek On day 3, the final day we had in Copenhagen, we decided to head to Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. This is an art museum housing many of the private collections of Carlsberg of beer...
Walking Tour Our first real touristy event was to take a walking tour. It was given to us by a guy who dressed as Hans Christian Andersen, who is something of a national hero...
