In early 2015 I built an awesome standing desk + treadmill combo. You can read more about that here. Anyway, I got good use out of it but I can’t take this to our new office space, so I’m giving the treadmill part of that combo for free to the first person who can haul it…
Running Windows 10 on an older Macbook Pro
There are the steps I took to get Windows 10 on my spare mid-2009 15″ Macbook Pro. Why? Because science! And because I like Windows 10 and because Apple stopped OS support on that machine sometime back. But mostly because I wanted to learn a bit more about UEFI systems and their boot-up sequence. Resulting…
Getting IPv6 working with Time Warner Cable
I needed to connect my home network to another non-critical IPv6 network, so wanted all the desired devices to be on the (single) public IPv6 network. I’ve got Time Warner Cable (TWC) at and my setup is as follows: First thing I noticed was that my router didn’t have an IPv6 address, so I called…
Fix your CalSpa hot tub (error code SF)
So, I was going to relax in my spa the other day when I saw it would trip over and flash “SF” on the control panel. Here is what I did to fix it. SF stands for safety Suction Failure. It comes up when your hot tub doesn’t suck. Typically when something doesn’t suck, it’s…
Single supernova at four different points in space at four different points in time?
I was trying to explain to a friend how a single supernova explosion that happened only once, at a single point in space was observed at four different points in space AND at four different times (50-80 years apart!). The key is gravitational lensing and I suspect I didn’t explain it very well because of…
The treadmill desk experiment
In recent years, I’ve been sitting at my desk for over 12 hours a day (and night). That’s a lot of time that I am NOT active – a big change from my daily gym routine from earlier. So when I came across a lot of internet buzz on standing desks and saw senator Janel…
Bitlocker in Windows 8.1 inside Bootcamp on the MacBook Pro (mid 2009)
I have an older Macbook Pro which I needed to re-purpose for a work project and that needed Windows 8.1. Now attempting to get Windows 8.1 running in BootCamp mode (i.e. dual boot) on an older Macbook Pro isn’t for the faint of heart. There are a ton of gotchas so this post is to…
The hidden cost of making something out of nothing …
So I came across an article today on Inc.com discussing the emotional and mental price of being an Entrepreneur. That got me reflecting on my own situation. Now fortunately for me, it takes a LOT to bring me down and on the rare occasions it does, it’s usually not too bad and not too long…
Tablet wars: iPad Air vs Surface 2 (and Lumia 2520)
Background I’ve been a long time Apple consumer but recently sold my iPad (1st version, 32GB, WiFi only) which I had bought sometime in mid-2010. It had been a speedy device when I bought it but over the years of upgrades, it had DRAMATICALLY slowed down. Simple stuff like opening the browser or settings app…
Why I moved from Gmail.com to Outlook.com
I recently moved my personal email from Gmail.com to Outlook.com. As most people know, moving email domains is a rather painful process and the last time I did that was about 8-10 years back when I moved from Yahoo.com => Gmail.com. So why did I do it? The move was fueled by two factors Poor…