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Wired Magazine did an article on emergency readiness.  I could not for the life of me find it on their web site, so here's what they recommend: The House Kit Sealed in plastic trash can or chest.  For use in catastrophic situations, like earthquake, fire, etc..  You should probably be able to get it into the back of your car. A. ...

I just got back from my summer vacation.  We spent a week in Puerto Rico (more on that in another blog) and a week at home.  I always like to have a project that has nothing to do with computers, so I built a garden shed.  I didn't use a plan or kit or anything, just scribbled a design on a sheet of paper, bought some wood and went ...

I decided to upgrade my home network components this month.  My house was wired by the builder with Cat-5e which is 1000-BaseT capable.  But I still had a bunch of 100-BaseT hardware, include my old Linksys wireless router, which worked fine, but I was never was that fond of.  Recently when we lost broadband access for over a week I ...

A photo of my home network components.