Author Archives: Garrett

Announcing: iTED

Earlier this week, I finally released my iTED application for Android OS devices. The iOS (iPhone, iPad, etc) version is still waiting for review with Apple’s app store. You can see more at www.ited.mobi. From the iTED web site: iTED … Continue reading

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Announcing: TED_PHP

Another set of PHP scripts written for myself that others may be able to take advantage of. From the README introduction: This is a PHP class to hopefully make writing PHP applications to consume “The Energy Detective” (TED) API a … Continue reading

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Smoothie Recipe

I have received a few requests over the past couple of weeks for the smoothie recipe that I use. To give credit where credit is due, I got the recipe from my coworker, Mike. Here’s how I (we) do it. … Continue reading

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Announcing: Tarsnap Monitor

It’s really nothing too special other than it’s handy (for me at least), and my first public project on GitHub. However, if you use Tarsnap and love to use stats and/or are excruciatingly paranoid about running out of money on … Continue reading

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Solar Liquor

#solar_liquor strong { clear: both; font-weight: bold; border-bottom: 1px solid #000; display: block; padding-top: 2em; width: 100%; } #solar_liquor .tr { clear: both; } #solar_liquor .td { float: left; width: 50%; margin-bottom: 1em; } Last year, LifeHacker put up an … Continue reading

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Free Energy Conservation Kit from TVA

It took a month or two for it to come in the mail, but we finally received our free energy conservation kit from TVA. All I did was do an online energy audit. It’s tough to beat free (as in … Continue reading

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Running Bootcamp using VirtualBox

Just wanted to put all this out there so that hopefully other people can find it. I’ll need this again as a reference for when I set up my wife’s laptop as well! Please note that anything documented here is … Continue reading

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Monitor Servers Behind a Firewall Using Reverse SSH Tunnels (and Cacti)

Wow. What a subject line! It’s a little technical magic, but fairly easy to do. I won’t cover installing Cacti or the SNMP daemon. There are plenty of guides for those. However, guides for creating and using the reverse SSH … Continue reading

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Anyone want to buy a house?

It’s for sale! Details at 100alden.wgb.me. If you or someone you know of is looking for a new home in the North Chatt / Red Bank area, send them our way!

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Electricity Usage So far in 2009

In 2007, the electricity usage at my house was at 27,751 kWh for the year. In 2008, it dropped 8.71% to 25,528. As of 2009 (just missing December), it is down by 17.73% to 19,877. If we were to go … Continue reading

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