Random Access 3.3

Follow up on Adaptive Cruise Control

May

2013

Following up on my mention to getting a new vehicle that has Adaptive Cruise Control I had some more time behind the wheel in situations where I could use it and thought I’d post a brief follow up. One thing I’d be interested in knowing is if my brake lights come on in some of the ...

Adaptive Cruise Control

May

2013

A short time ago the drivers side electric mirror broke on our 2011 Ford Flex. Not a big deal, took it in thinking someone collided with it but there was no physical damage so they actually replaced it under warranty no questions asked. Always a bonus. Shortly during/after that visit I got a phone ...

Hack Attack

May

2013

Not sure the way they did it but this little lame blog got hacked recently, and then re-hacked. It appears that the only hack was to change the ‘Title’ of the blog, as well as change it to UTF-7 instead of UTF-8, and add a bad block of text to the widgets. I ...

Fitbit – Customer 4 Lyfe

May

2013

Recently, well, very recently I purchased a FitBit One. I have had the Fitbit Aria for some time while trying to maintain weight loss I’ve been working on since last year. I’d been ‘meaning too’ get the One, as when I got the Aria it wasn’t available yet but was announced. I finally had ...

High Functioning Autistic with ADD tendencies.

May

2013

High Functioning Autistic with ADD tendencies. That’s the new name for what used to be one of many things called ‘Asperger Syndrome‘ , and as of this month it is what my son has been officially diagnosed with. I have briefly mentioned here a few times the things that have been going on with ...

GameSTOP

Mar

2013

I decided in December that I would make a conscious effort to purchase things from places that employ local folks, as well as collect sales tax. This meant that companies like Amazon.com would be verboten as I do not want to worry about managing what i purchase and paying my own sales tax once ...

Dear Mister President

Mar

2013

If on January 4th, 2008 when I donated to a then senator from Illinois who was talking fairness, no torture, closing gizmo, bringing back the strength to America, and many other things I'd seen sadly fall that used to be what it means to be American change. If you told me this same person would ...

Pebbling

Feb

2013

So last year I discovered Kickstarter like most of the Internet. The first one I backed was the maligned project Code Hero The next one though was by all reports a resounding success. The Pebble. I received mine a bit over a week ago and for the irst time in maybe a decade I'm wearing ...

Routing the House

Feb

2013

Ever since I discovered the Internet in '94 I've always had a more complex than the average bear configuration. Paying $100 a month for ISDN to an apartment in 1996. Static IP to the Ouse in '98. Linux powered routers with hand coded firewalls, email servers, and web. Link to this post!

Hopping

Feb

2013

I decided it was time to give up on Centurylink Prism for now. The service works rather well, but where I'm at its got some deficiencies that they can't address right now and I'm tired of waiting. Link to this post!