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My house "blue screened", or The Confessions of a House Geek
2009-01-25 02:27:00 I had my first Insteon home automation device failure this week. Unfortunately, it happened to the brains of the "automation" part -- the software/hardware combination that executes the timers that turn the lights on and off. Specifically, the culprit was the PowerLinc device that bridges my house to the USB port on my computer which runs the timers. Here's the little sucker. At 70 bucks, it's not like changing a lightbulb. Okay, I was pissed about it, especially as it's only a little over two years old. But, fact is, I was never happy with this automation set up. For one thing, it requires leaving a Windows box on 24/7 for the timers to work. And the HouseLinc software I was using must have some memory leaks in it because once I removed it from my computer it seemed to gain an extra half a processor. What I really want is an Insteon driver for Linux/FreeBSD that would let me build my own timers in Perl, which I could run under Unix cron. That's what I did with my form...
Confessions Reflections 7: Sources of Sins Reversed
2007-12-14 20:54:00 I find Augustines rundown of these sources of sins fascinating, as he does not simply recite dangers and examples. He does not condemn them like a vengeful preacher. Instead, he highlights how people who commit these sins are looking for something, and have a certain rational behind what they do. But they will not find what ...
The Confessions of Carrie Underwood
2007-10-19 04:56:00 The Confessions of Carrie Underwood Beauty Carrie Underwood open up at her romance with Dallas Cowboy’s quarterback Tony Romo in the new Entertainment Weekly , Carrie also talks about her family & American Idol On her romance with Dallas Cowboy’s quarterback Tony Romo: The private Carrie Underwood, suddenly spilling all about her love life with ...
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Confessions Reflections 6: Puberty
2007-10-16 16:40:00 Book 2, Chapter 2, 2 Still I did not keep the moderate way of the love of mind to mind - the bright path of friendship. Instead, the mists of passion steamed up out of the puddly concupiscence of the flesh, and the hot imagination of puberty, and they so obscured and overcast my heart ...
Confessions Reflections 5: Ancient Rhetorical Spin
2007-09-27 20:22:00 Book 1, Chapter 17, 28 After Augustine tells how he wasted his talents on vanities such as reciting poetry (not because it was poetry, but because it was pagan fiction), he offers an explanation as to why he did so. But it is no wonder that I was thus carried toward vanity and was estranged from thee, ...
Confessions Reflections 3: The Power of Culture
2007-09-03 17:58:00 Book 1, Ch. 13, 21 Augustine poses a question to God, as he is usually inclined to do. For what can be more wretched than the wretch who has no pity upon himself, who sheds tears over Dido, dead for the love of Aeneas, but who sheds no tears for his own death in not loving thee… What ...
Feel my pain! The confessions of a Video Clerk.
2007-03-17 02:37:00 For those of you who don’t know me… I work in a video rental store which will, for now, remain nameless. After working for “Video Slut” for approximately two years I’ve crossed paths with many different types of customers. I will outline them for you, so that you can touch the surface of the misery ...
"Nothing is Secret Anymore!" -- The Confessions of a Million
2006-12-02 15:43:05 By Matthew LeskoInformation is the currency of today's world. Those whocontrol information are the most powerful people on the planet --and the ones with the most bulging bank accounts.The timely delivery of vital information is one of the mostlucrative businesses you can have in this new millennium. Ishould know. I started one of the most successful informationbrokerage businesses in the country. I'm also perhaps theworld's most well known information broker, and I've mademillions of dollars from doing it, and I'm going to show you howto easily do the same.Let me backtrack a little bit.All my life I wanted to start my own business. I didn't carewhat it was -- I just wanted to learn how to feed myself and notwork for someone else. I even considered selling hot dogs onthe mall near the Washington Monument. I just wanted to be myown boss. Sound familiar?I had a string of failed businesses before I hit the big time.It was while working as a computer administrator of a travelcompa... |
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