I’ve always liked the idea of permanently mounted outdoor cameras, but I was put off by the thoughts (or, alternatively, costs) of running wiring to each camera. Battery operated Wi-Fi cameras addressed some of these problems, but left the issue of accessibility: mounting them low enough to change the battery easily left them vulnerable to […]
Changing Technologies The networks in our house keep evolving. In 2003 when the house was being built, I had the builder run CAT 5 cabling from six locations back to the electrical box, which was also where the cable TV line came in. Back then the cable company provided just a modem, we added a […]
The biggest changes in my life with new hearing aids (HA for short) have been adapting to the technology. Since starting my hearing aid trial, any time I have to put anything more complicated than a toque over my ears, I have had to adapt and/or learn a new interface. In this post, I’m going […]
I’ve been wearing hearing aids for the last week. Of course, I can hear perfectly well without them. Just like I don’t really need glasses. Right. I’ve been wondering about hearing aids for about two years. Nope, I just looked it up – it will be three years in January since I had my first […]
Life was so simple when I had one monitor on my PC. Life was better and still simple when I used two of the same size and resolution. Then I went and complicated it by getting a Dell U3219Q 4K monitor and paired it with my old Dell S2409W 1920×1080. Here’s the low down on […]
My upstairs router was getting flaky on the wireless side so I got a replacement. Installed the new router but it doesn’t connect via cable. Rather ironic that I now have one that does A and not B, and the other does B and not A, but the biggest irony was the card in the router […]
