iPhone back with new screen

Harmony remote

Got rid of a 10+ year old junk receiver and entered the modern world of AV/HDMI. A full afternoon later stringing 10,000 cables and programming the Logitech universal remote, it’s a slick setup. Even the wife approves of the purchase! She especially loves the graphical on-screen iPod feature.

Fried electrical cable

1/2 of the circuits in my electric panel died… that’s 1 phase into the house out for you electrically inclined folk. Nothing I could do… power company call and wait. It turns out that the problem was a massive short in the underground power cable. The 1.5″ thick cable was nothing but a bunch of […]

Window 8 – pile of poo

Initial experience with Windows 8 is that it is an unfinished pile of poo. Upgraded using the wizard and it automatically installed 32-bit version on my i5 x64 processor with no choice given…$39 down the tube. Bought 60Gb SSD for the core OS install, then found out that Windows 8 applications automatically install on the […]