Blog from the Loft

Take a look at the cog commercial here. It is very cool.

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Time to terminate the electricity account at the Farm. You can do this online with NSTAR here, but (a) it will take up to 5 business days, and (b) that form does not have a review page, you press submit and off it goes. Seems like the app is driven by Allaire ColdFusion, at least [...]

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4pm on a Tuesday after the long weekend. Finished the last load of laundry. Packed up the bicycle. Emptied the rest of the fridge. Drinking mineral water from the big bottle. Turn off the sound system. Back the Audi out of the garage.
I did not think I can be as attached to a house as [...]

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Well, last night marks the end of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I do wish Sarah Michele Gellar would continue to do the show. Until then, you can go buy some memorabilia from the show at ebay. Pretty smart move from UPN I thought.
Or better still, pick up the series DVD first season, second season, third [...]

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My local Panera Bread (Sandwich and Soup place) has quietly installed Wi-Fi. Everything good happens after I leave town ! Speed is ok but it sure is nice to have connectivity, esp. since I disconnected all the data and phone lines at the Farm right now. Two weeks to closing.

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Now I am down to the few final things to get the house sold. I need to get a certificate from the local fire department to say that I have working smoke detection system. Since I have a security system with wired (AC) smoke detectors all over the house, how difficult could that be, right? [...]

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I broke down and bought a Linksys Wireless Ethernet Bridge. My office is at the wrong end of the Loft and I want to connect all my work computers to the cable modem. Now all my work machines share a local 100mb hub at the office end, and the hub is wirelessly connected to the [...]

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Seems like RCN in the Masschusetts area is ready for HDTV starting May 15th. There will be new converter boxes etc. Channels inlude: Abc
Nbc, Fox, PBS, Discovery hd, Hdnet, Hdnet movies, Hbo hd, Showtime hd, Espn hd. Will be additional cost for these. This is the way to get a converter box with better output [...]

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Saturday morning 10:05 am. I was going to drive back to the farm to meet a potential buyer of some of my moving sale pieces. He cancelled. No choice but to continue to tackle the stuff here at the loft.
There it is, sitting quietly amongst his already cleared peers. The last packed box of kitchen [...]

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I have been living with RCN digital cable for several weeks now. Forget that the cable box user interface is so primitive and slow, the worst flaw is that the box only has composite video outout. What’s the point of a digital signal !!
I emailed their tech support. They were wonderful in responding to my [...]

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