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I love my Roomba. It keeps my floors clean and I don’t have to worry about vacuuming. That is, until something breaks.
Roomba is great, when everything is working right. Sometimes, though, it doesn’t work quite right. Some carpets – like the carpet I have in the great room of my house – trigger it’s cliff [...]

Every so often, one of my buddies will tell me about some “killer” app that I just have to try. Sometimes they’re right – the app truly is killer and I’m glad they had me try it. Other times I try it and simply feel “meh” about it.

A few weeks ago I was visiting a friend who had been trying to convince me to jailbreak my iPhone for quite a while. I had not done so because I really didn’t feel compelled to. My phone could do everything I wanted it to do, and did so pretty damn well.
While visiting my friend, [...]

Yesterday the world was introduced to the wonderfulness that is the iPhone 3.0 software update. I know around my office nearly every geek in sight was hunched in front of his or her workstation furiously foaming at the mouth waiting for the update to finish downloading and install.
The update provides some wonderful new features (searching, [...]

I’ve recently made some changes to my network topology at home which included re-IP’ing my network.  Since I do my IP addressing via DHCP this isn’t normally a big deal and I thought nothing of it.   Then I realized that my security camera through FrontPoint (and Alarm.com) no longer worked.
Since the instructions for the camera [...]

I’ve written many times here about the alarm system I’ve installed in my house.  I’m a geek, and wasn’t satisfied with an ordinary alarm system from companies like ADT, Sonitrol, Brinks, etc.   I wanted something with more interactivity, expandability, and ability to fit into the smart home I’ve been building out.

It’s been a while since I posted anything on this site, partially due to the run-up to my recent wedding, and partially because I’ve been too busy with work and my new job to really do anything with my computer lab at home.
The wedding is now over, and the honeymoon taken, so it’s time to [...]

So, on my work laptop I am using PGP to perform whole disk encryption.  It’s a Macbook Pro,  and being a mobile machine we needed to encrypt it’s drive.
For some reason my Macbook Pro locked up during the encryption process (I can say positively that it’s an unrelated issue – the encryption itself is not [...]

I wrote earlier about one of my XServes that had problems with a kernel panic on boot. While I still have NO idea what the underlying cause happens to be, it seems to have corrected itself.
Earlier today, on a hunch, I went and booted the server. I figured the worst that would happen is another [...]

It’s more advanced than most because I enjoy playing with technology and making it work for me. … Just like sometimes an XBox 360 will give the red-ring of death, my servers aren’t always healthy.