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Burning down the house (almost)
The other day, my son came to me and said his monitor wouldn’t turn on when plugged into the surge protector and that the “building wiring fault” light was lit. I told him to try the surge protector in another outlet and circuit and he said that it was still lit on the same circuit, but not on other circuits.
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The wrong way to do home automation
A few weeks ago I read an article about how celebrities and famous people were ripping out home automation systems because they were hard to use and unreliable. I kind of laughed at the article because the systems that were likely created by “professionals” missed one of my main points about home automation and that is the system must augment, but not replace manual operations.
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Overreliance on GPS and Mapping Software
When I first learned to drive, I always relied on checking a map prior to leaving so that I knew where to go and kept a map or map book (Thomas Guide) in my car in case I got lost. When MapQuest (remember that?) came to be, I replaced checking the map with printing out the directions to my desintation. For longer trips, I went to AAA and got a TripTik travel planner which was really neat at the time.
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Measuring Productivity
I was chatting with a co-worker the other day and we were talking about working in an office. For knowledge workers going back to an office may have little value, but for managers they really have no way to measure if a person is being “productive” either at home or in the office, so the theory may be that if a worker can be seen not “goofing off”, then they are productive. However, is that a good measure of productivity? How can productivity be measured?
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