Seriously, America?
April 27th, 2010Oh no, ASS!
RoomieRemake woke me up and made me coffee!
April 26th, 2010I recently rearranged the Z-Wave modules in my house to devices that I care about controlling more. I put one on the coffee maker so that I could preload it and either schedule it to turn on or turn it on through the Roomie website, which would be good for if I were heading home sometime and wanted a fresh cup waiting for me. I also put a module on my computer monitors and speakers, which are in my bedroom. This lets a script turn them off when I go to bed and back on right before a script wakes me up with music.
This morning RoomieRemake woke me up with two short scripts. And hey, more news! I used the recently-updated website (which I’ve apparently never directly blogged about) to write the scripts. Here’s a screenshot of that.
Here’s the script that ran on Dreaming Nest, my Home Server, which has a ThinkStick USB Z-Wave controller.
Yellow Screen
April 18th, 2010My computer screen turned yellow the other day when I moved it. I knew the problem was that the DVI cable was loose, but I could see that some people might think that the screen was broken. (Gosh, I’m so smart!) Anyway, here is this post showing the problem, in the hopes that it will help some poor googler wondering what’s wrong with his screen.
We Love Hokies Day
April 16th, 2010I took this picture outside of Gilbert Linkous Elementary School, which is about half a mile north of Virginia Tech’s campus.
Netflix is my friend
April 16th, 2010When a company does something gratuitously nice for the customer, I think it deserves a little praise. Below is a screen shot of an email that I just received from Netflix, an unlimited movie rental service. I pay a monthly fee for the two-DVDs-at-a-time plan.
