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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 […]

Optimizing iPhone battery life

One of the better articles I’ve read on how to make your iPhone more power efficient and more private. Note that the 1st item around push v. pull email will not be appropriate for many business folk, but the rest of the tips are very practical. http://www.payetteforward.com/why-does-my-iphone-battery-die-so-fast-heres-the-real-fix/

Netflix Account Profile dead

Netflix Account Profiles feature has been broken for over 6 months. Customer services says, yes we know its broken and annoying. We hope to have a fix by the end of the year. This from a multi-billion dollar company. Really, they can’t find a team of engineers to fix the darn software. Sad.