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Cold, Errands, RetroPi, Tree, Family, Movie

A great Christmas Eve. (24th) Slept in a bit, but woke up very cold, I went to bed with too small of a blanket.  Left to eat lunch and run some errands, had to return an Amazon package to the UPS store for shipment back, do some last minute Christmas shopping, and pass out some […]

Home Automation with HomeBridge

I found a cool project called Homebridge; it lets you bridge Apple’s HomeKit (and therefor Siri) to home automation items that aren’t natively HomeKit compatible. tl;dr I have my WeMo lights and my Craftsman AssureLink garage door opener added to my HomeKit configuration, along with my HomeKit native Ecobee 3 (which is not actually discussed […]

Comparing Epiphany and Midori on the Raspberry Pi

I wanted to play around with the Raspberry Pi again, and what better opportunity than the release of a new browser choice? Since I’ve used the rPi, there’s really only been one good choice for a browser, and that’s Midori. I took the opportunity to run some benchmarks on both browsers, as I hadn’t seen […]

KilaDesigns.com is now live!

I’ve been helping my wife set up her web store so that she can sell jewelry on-line. We’ve been working on the store for a few weeks, and it’s now ready to go. Check it out! The store is powered by Zen Cart, which seems pretty nice. Buy something for your Significant Other! http://kiladesigns.com/

Plenty Of Traveling, VMWare

I traveled to the Tyler area this week, and worked for a couple of customers out there. One of the primary things we worked on was implementing virtual servers on VMWare Server.

Wife’s Laptop Finally Gets Ubuntu

I finally took the time to move my wife’s laptop over to Ubuntu Linux 7.04 Feisty. It’s a Gateway MX3215.