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The Quantitative Self….or yes there are people worse off than I

Nothing like letting your iPad educate and inspire you whenever you’re not busy. I had my iPad propped up running TED (a great little app) while I was making lunch and it played a speech by Gary Wolf on the … Continue reading

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IPad on the road

Using an iPad as a GPS seems like a match made in heaven….oops,the wifi only version might not have been the way to go since the GPS capabilities seem to be embedded in that cell phone chip that’s missing. Well, … Continue reading

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Ipad breaks the web…

Or at least most websites. Like millions of folks this Christmas I got an iPad. but i’m amazed at how many websites say that they’ll be creating iPad apps instead of fixing their websites for safari. I for one don’t … Continue reading

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Oops, Ted can’t talk to Google

I managed to break Google’s Powermeter — again.  But at least this time I know what I did. I was reviewing my router firewall logs and was not too happy with all the active connections and unknown addresses that were … Continue reading

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Ted meets Google

Picked up the TED 5000 home energy monitor and began, well, monitoring our home electrical usage.  Easy to install and use; once you allow it to connect onto your home wireless network (Glad the security was working).  It lets you … Continue reading

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