Home security camera use case

Major loss

Well I am BEYOND pissed off. The very expensive high speed/capacity memory card in my very expensive “pro-sumer” camera just failed. The Canon 70D gave absolutely no indication that there was a problem. It allowed me to see images in preview and then simply and silently didn’t write them to the bad card. I lost […]

Home wiring issues

Apparently it’s national electrical gremlins month. Started having intermittent problems with lights. After much trouble shooting, discovered one of the workmen we had redo our bathroom put in an electrical box with a super sharp piece of metal that cut through the insulation on one of the wires. What a $!&^ to troubleshoot and a […]

Power Point Eye Charts

The other day I was obliged to step in and give a couple of different presentations in front of technical audiences using Power Point decks assembled by other team members. The material was reasonably familiar (n-tier web architecture); but, nearly every slide was an impossible tangled eye chart. As engineers and architects we love to […]