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On the Importance of Office Space

It’s easy to overlook how important it is to have a proper workspace that is separate from our living space.  That fact is emphasized to me now that I am home all day.  There’s definitely an emerging workplace trend towards

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Posted By Mike Posted on June 6, 2018
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GPS Fixed

I managed to get the offending chip desoldered from my cheap GPS receiver this morning, as shown above.  In the process, I bent several of the tiny pins, which are barely wider than a human hair.  After (very carefully) straightening them out

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Posted By Mike Posted on June 6, 2018
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Road Trip

This past weekend, I decided to take the new Subaru out for a spin, just to get a feel for how it really drives.  In the course of two days, I tacked on 700 miles, taking my odometer from 30

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Posted By Mike Posted on June 6, 2018
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Metromile

One of the interesting services we have available in California is pay-per-mile car insurance.  Metromile is an insurance company that specializes in low-mileage urban drivers.  They send you this dongle (shown above) that attaches to your car, and sends data

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Posted By Mike Posted on June 5, 2018
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Fixing a Cheap GPS Receiver

Anyone who knows me knows I would squeeze a penny so hard, it would make ol’ Honest Abe cry.  I also usually enjoy messing around with electronics.  The perfect marriage of these two preferences is a sort of microhobby of

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Posted By Mike Posted on June 5, 2018
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A Newwwwwwww Car!

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, and having a midlife crisis, must be in want of a superfluous new car.  And so it is with me.  I am the proud,

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Posted By Mike Posted on June 5, 2018
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Reboot

I’m trying to get this midlife crisis going, but it’s not as easy as it sounds. My last day at work was this past Friday.  And although I’d been planning it for a while, after almost a decade of being

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Posted By Mike Posted on June 4, 2018
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