Scott Gruby’s Blog

OK, maybe not, but as I was doing a routine search for my name, I came across an RFC (Request for Comments) based on my “NotifyMail protocol”. I’m not sure why someone bothered to write it up, but it is RFC 4146, title “Simple New Mail Notification”. For a geek, that’s pretty cool.

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Five years ago, I had never heard of ulcerative colitis. About a week and a half before I got married, I became quite sick and didn’t know what was wrong. Some tests were run on me and the results didn’t turn up anything. I did everything I could to look happy at my wedding, but [...]

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When I started training in January, I couldn’t get myself to run when it wasn’t sunny. In the last 7 months, I’ve learned a lot about running (yes, there is stuff to learn) and have sort of gotten used to running when it is warm. However, note to self, don’t run next year in the [...]

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It looks like I wasn’t the only one to notice how the state used power to tell people to conserve energy. Today’s San Diego Union Tribune ran a story about this and said it cost $6000 to ran the 395 signs around the state. I guess not everyone reads my blog, so it had to [...]

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The other day, I wrote about the highway signs saying “Flex Your Power” and using energy. Someone from the company that runs the “Flex Your Power” campaign (they’re a marketing/PR firm) commented that the signs served a valuable purpose. In my opinion, stating the obvious isn’t valuable. In any case, neither my wife nor I [...]

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I’m not a huge fan of the government mandating anything, but now, more than ever, believe that the government needs to start mandating more safety in cars. Specifically, I think that a) all cell phones must come with Bluetooth and b) all cars should come with Bluetooth for handsfree cell phone use. People argue that [...]

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My history with the Apple Newton goes back to the summer before my senior year in college. Apple’s PIE (Personal Interactive Electronics) group (before it got renamed as simply Newton) wanted to license my NotifyMail program and I negotiated a deal that I thought was excellent. I received a Newton MessagePad 110 and the Newton [...]

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In this time of high energy usage, the big buzz is on conservation. So much so, that CalTrans has lit up the freeway billboards with something like “Flex Your Power. Converse Energy.” Hmmm…how much energy does it take to light up those signs? Brilliant. The media and energy officials are saying to keep the thermostat [...]

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Yesterday I was in a parking lot and heard a car alarm go off. Like any good citizen, I dashed over to the car to make sure it wasn’t being stolen. Ha! Did you really believe that? Car alarms are almost completely useless. A better system for car alarms is a GPS tracking device (on [...]

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Following up on my earlier post, my car kit has an issue; the speaker in the Garmin sounds like crap and is too low (I think the car kit has the amplification, but the speaker is distorting the sounds). So, tomorrow it is back to Fry’s to look for an external CB (marine) speaker that [...]

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