This is a review of the the TED-5000 from TheEnergyDetective.com. This is kind of a unique contraption, so lets start by saying what it is and why you might want it. There’s some psychological evidence that merely being aware of your energy usage will cause the average person to become more conservative. Take for example …
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WordPress and mod_rewrite
Apologies in advance that this is a long and confusing post… Part 1: The problem I decided I wanted to migrate my old Land of Devastation website at http://www.landofdev.com/ over to a subsection of http://www.smbaker.com/. There are several reasons for this, chief among them being that the Land of Devastation website doesn’t really stand by …
Read MoreAdding custom CSS to a wordpress blog post
In the previous post, I showed how to create fancy mouseover buttons in wordpress without having to resort to the ugliness javascript. However, the post finished up with one very big issue….. You can’t include CSS definitions in a wordpress blog post because they need to be placed in the header of your blog. Well, …
Read MoreCreating mouseover buttons in wordpress using CSS
One of the issues that I ran into when porting my websites over to wordpress was the lack of built-in image mouseover capabilities. My previous website used dreamweaver, and had mouseover using javascript built-in. Of course, one simple way to do this would be to copy the javascript over from the old site into the …
Read MoreEditing the ‘/etc/hosts’ on your Vista or Windows 7 Computer
When migrating a domain over to a new provider, one of the things that you might run into is the need to wait a day or two for the DNS record to propagate. DNS is the service that maps your host name to an IP address that can be resolved on the network. Something that …
Read MoreReview – Sodastream soda making machine
Let’s start off with the hardware. The machine is mostly plastic, but it appears durable. I’m a great abuser of products and I haven’t managed to break anything on it yet. The bottles are of above-average plastic thickness, so they’ll probably last as long as the company claims they will. The CO2 canisters are well …
Read MoreReview: iRobot Roomba 550 / 551
This is a review of the iRobot Roomba cleaning robot. The iRobot roomba is a robot that claims to be able to vacuum for you. As vacuuming the floor is one of those tasks that I put off and rarely get around to, it seemed like a good product to evaluate. I evaluated it for …
Read MoreNixie Tube Clock
This is a product review of the TubeHobby NCV2.1-14 Nixie Tube Clock Kit. For those unfamiliar with nixie tubes, they are a technology that dates from the 1960s. Nixies are glass gas-filled tubes operating on approximately 170 volts DC. Each tube has 10 cathodes, one for each of the numerals 0-9 and one anode. Whereas …
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