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Update on tire repair adventure: Great Success!
OK, earlier I wrote about tire-repairs the way you were never taught in shop class, using spray-foam. The general consensus in the comments was “brilliant idea, terrible execution and outcome!”. Well, naysayers, you are wrong. Today we had a reasonable amount of snow, and I got to try my repair out. And, well, the photo…
The brave new world of car charger virus: my prediction for 2018
The electric car charging cable standard that is going to win is called Combined Charging System. Given Tesla’ scale, they may continue for a while with their proprietary one, but eventually it will phase out somehow. Who wants an appliance that only plugs into its own manufacturer’s power system, can you imagine a GE kettle…
Blockchain and supply-chain management: its not just me!
Looks like others feel that blockchain and supply-management are a good match. This article in the Globe&Mail goes into some details on using it in the food supply chain, including information on a pilot by WalMart (which sells 20% of the food in the US, OMG I’m not sure how I feel about that!). They have…
The environmental disaster that is bitcoin: get some efficiency or GTFO
I’m a big fan of blockchain technology and crypto-currency as a concept. The general strategy that BitCoin employed was a genius ecosystem: Allow people to gain wealth, but force them to show evidence of work, and then use that work to drive the transactions and blockchain math that makes the network go. Great. Except… they…
3-way switch replacement: puzzlement
So today I was planning on replacing the 3-way dimmers from the earlier project. This should be really simple, I obtained a GE 45857 (zigbee dimmer) and a GE 12723 (add-a-switch). Just need to pop the old ones out and replace me thinks. So, trip the breaker, open them up and… WTF? There is only…
