Capitan’s log: Supplemental. How do you post when you’re busy doing other things? Infrequently, it seems.
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We put the HA! in Home Automation
I admit it. I’ve got a Smart Home. 
It’s supposed to be like this:
Sometimes – many times – it’s like this:
Pointy Haired Boss
Yep, I’m taking a turn as THE MANAGER. I figure I’ve learned just about every way to do that job badly from the other side, I might as well stop whining about it and see if I can do it better than that. Continue reading
How old are those disks, anyway?
The day after the big heat wave, I woke to a dead home server. Not good. Fortunately things eventually recovered enough to bring everything back up, but that got me thinking about the actual age of the spinning rust (the drives) and the likelihood that the consumer/home grade drives were probably due for an upgrade.
If this then that.
This isn’t new. It’s just new to me. I’ve built similar systems myself based on this idea, but IFTTT has done a really nice job of integrating a slew of social media sites and 
smart phone sensors (well, location anyway) to allow for really simple automation. Besides you just have to love any service where the About link points to a page named wtf.
Bad Robot
How do you make wordpress generate a robots.txt file? Or a sitemap?
Easy Peasy. You create and upload your own robots.txt file into the root directory of wordpress. I used this page for hints for a good wordpress robots.txt. That contains the Sitemap link, which you get from the XML Sitemap plugin. And then you kick google Webmaster tools until they show the right thing.
Bringing Up Baby
I’m slowly getting things like robots.txt and xmlsitemap and google webtools relinked to the site. It’s amazing how much I forgot I had done.
End of an Era
I’m afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it.
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