So, you might remember my past tome on OpenHab. I dropped OpenHab due to its overly complex operations for Wink and its simpler operation. Remember, in general, complex = powerful, easy = plain-jane I’ve used the Wink now for a year. It is a solid device. My big hangup with it is: Doesn’t recognize Aeotec Read More
The Universal Tennis Ranking (UTR) is a hot topic right now. Really it has been around for a bit. It seems during the French Open each year the UTR folks appear on Tennis Channel to push their system. I play tennis and I have a child who plays competitive tennis. For me does UTR mean Read More
We recently changed our VPN all around and are using openVPN. It works great and no issues…except with our 1 Macintosh. The Mac had the openVPN client on it and when connected to the VPN, the local DNS was still given priority. Yes, the user could get to internal devices via IP addr, but not Read More
You might remember by my earlier post called Amazon Fire Stick vs. Roku. I’ve been running an Amazon Fire cube now for about 6 months. It is fine. I noticed pixelation often, especially during sports. I’m also not a fan of the Cube having Alexa listening, even though I have Alexa disabled. I am still Read More
Watching CNBC this morning and Charlie Munger of Berkshire Hathaway was asked about our government. His response was basically, there is too much hate out there. “Anger drives out reason” he said, followed by “that’s why I don’t get angry at politicians”. It would be nice if people out there would drop their hate and Read More