Netflix is pretty great but it really could use a lot of streamlining for it’s interface and library. Multiple Profiles at least help with recommendations across a family but it’s really not enough. For starters, related to that family aspect. I’ve Already Watched This At least in my house, I’ve set up profiles for my … [Read more…]
Moving into a new house tends to create a lot of little projects. There’s been a few extra in the case of my new home, since it didn’t have any appliances, and was missing quire a few of the small trimmings. Things like, handles on the kitchen cabinets. It’s an easy little thing to add, … [Read more…]
Since the primary focus of this blog is projects, i thought it would be appropriate to talk about my new space a bit. Last week, I’ve moved into a new home. Mostly we wanted a home that was more on one level to accommodate my wife and kids and their mobility issues, but also we … [Read more…]
So, I made an app. A for real, runs on things app. More accurately, I followed a little tutorial to make an app, as part of the Xamarin Challenge over at Thurrott.com. The app itself is a little weather app, it even includes location based weather and forecasting. I know this isn’t particularly impressive but … [Read more…]
I’ve been using computers and technology for a long time. The vast majority of my life in fact. I have early memories of playing games on our Commodore 64, back when I was like 4 or 5 years old. Eventually we had a DOS based system, though it didn’t have a hard drive in it. … [Read more…]
So, the title there says New 3DS, which is is the “New 3DS” but it’s also New, in the sense that I bought it at the start of January. It’s like 3 or 4 weeks old. Then I broke it on accident. It’s taken me years to get around to saving the money to buy … [Read more…]
So, I have been pretty sure for a while that the main Hard Drive in my desktop was going out. It’s probably the oldest drive I own and occasionally it got feisty during reboots. For a variety of reasons, I kept putting off replacing it. … and putting it off…. and putting it off… Then … [Read more…]
I’ve neglected posting much lately, not so much because I haven’t been doing anything but more because I’ve been busy and not really with anything deserving of it’s own post. I hope to remedy this a bit next year but for now I just wanted to run through some recent projects I’ve been working on. … [Read more…]
I’ll try to remember to do an update post if things iron out but I wanted to throw out my experience so far with Cloud At Cost, a VPS provider that charges a one time upfront fee for their VPS, as opposed to a monthly subscription or other reoccurring cost. They had a sale for … [Read more…]
I’m not sure what it is about mobile operating systems, they just don’t always clean up after themselves and seem to be awful about eating up their limited space sometimes. I can only assume that there is some sort of glitch and a large batch of updates or temporary files don’t get deleted properly. In … [Read more…]