Category: General
Experience with off-roading has changed what “prepared” means. My RZR contains a surprising amount of extra hardware, an assembly of nearly two decades of trials with things going wrong. There’s a spare drive belt, spark plugs, tire repair kits, fluids, spare tire, fire extinguisher, and on and on. It’s a toolbox that seems excessive until it isn’t. I’m not expecting…
It’s interesting to look back at everything I’ve built, read, installed, purchased, or otherwise experienced throughout the past year. The lists that follow (in no particular order) are my 2019 favorites. RV Projects and Items New RV Locks Since the day I took home the travel trailer, the locks had bothered me. With only a small number of unique key…
Over the past few years, security industry experts have been warning that the internet of things (IoT) is wildly insecure. In recent weeks this has come to fruition, first with a DDoS against krebsonsecurity.com and later with a DDoS against Dyn’s name servers. It was the sign I needed to finally make the move from thinking about improvements to my…
I’m writing this from my iPad in a cold, dark house lit only by a few candles and a single LED lamp running off a battery. Earlier this week a record-setting windstorm blew through, uprooting massive pine trees and knocking out power for over 200,000 homes. Mine was one of those, and the weather station on the roof clocked a…