Archive for May, 2008

Home Automation: Revisited »

By john on May 27, 2008 in Home Automation, featured | 4 Comments

A while back I wrote about Home Automation, and how I was using it at my then residence to control a few lamps. While that was all good and fun, it still left a lot to be desired. I was really itching to do a more robust automation system, but due to circumstances (not owning the house), I really couldn’t make it all i wanted.

That all changed two weeks ago when I bought my first house. This nice long holiday weekend provided a perfect opportunity for me to start working on my home automation system. My good friend Jason gave me a handful of X10 capable standard toggle switches and toggle dimmer switches to get me started. When mixed with the wall-wart dimmers and relays that I used in my previous setup they provide a rather robust system.

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Hahlo 3, making my iPhone my favorite Tweeting device »

By john on May 10, 2008 in featured | 0 Comments

I’ve been on Twitter for a while now, but had not found myself using it that often until recently, when the company I work for gave me a Blackberry and I discovered the Twitterberry app. Then, not a week and a half later, my friend Jason (who just recently signed up for Twitter) asks me […]

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