A sensitive case

Bluetooth is still lame

What’s your experience been with Bluetooth? Personally, I view it as one of the worst communications protocols ever devised! I’ve yet to find a device that easily and reliably pairs with consistently good communications quality. At best a few devices pair most of the time with acceptable quality. Usually it’s difficult initial pairing, frequent total […]

2-factor (ok 1.5)

Continuing the trend of getting my crap together in terms of online security, I finally enabled 2-factor authentication across all my online email (e.g. Yahoo, Google) and cloud storage providers (e.g. Dropbox, Evernote). Not naive enough to think that I’m perfectly secure now, but at least these type of measures will slow these nefarious SOBs […]

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 […]