• Oct 18, 2018

    Honey Mustard Kebab Recipe

    I'm not a great cook, but in order to help out my wife I've been cooking at least 2 days a week for the last year or so. I've found a few recipes that work and pretty much stick to them. Yes, this is quite boring but it works for us. However, when I ask my wife if she likes it, she says she likes not cooking those nights which isn't a big encouragement! Last week I got the idea that I was going to make kebabs and when I went to the store to get ingredients, a bottle of brown mustard called my name.

  • Oct 15, 2018

    Review: Western Digital MyBook Duo

    Last year I was looking at options for adding storage to my Mac Pro that I use as a media center, Jenkins server, DVR, and security camera monitoring. The Mac Pro has a 1 TB SSD but storage is eaten up very quickly with everything running on it. I wanted at least 8 TB of usable storage and while I could use a RAID, I was more interested in configuring drives as JBOD (just a bunch of disks).

  • Oct 11, 2018

    Review: Radio Thermostat CT-30 (3M Filtrete 50)

    My wife has been complaining that the temperature on our thermostat is always wrong, reading too high. So, I've looked a few times at getting a replacement thermostat. However, since they cost $60-$70 for a regular programmable one, I've put it off until I did my research to find one that I liked. My biggest complaint about the thermostat was that programming it was a pain; we're currently on the same routine 7 days a week as our son wakes up at the same time and goes to bed at the same time, so if I want to change the temperature or time, I need to copy the program across all 7 days. While not complicated, I don't like the interface for doing it.

  • Sep 1, 2018

    Review: Anker PowerCore 26800 Power Bank

    On a recent camping trip, I brought along a few small power banks to charge phones and watches (we weren't completely out in the wilderness and having a phone for pictures and emergencies is quite important). It was kind of awkward to charge the devices using 3 separate batteries. I decided to look for larger power banks that could charge multiple devices at once. Originally I was looking for one that could also power my laptop for a little bit, but decided that the number of times I've had to power it have been few and far between. Since I had good results with Anker products, I purchased the Anker PowerCore 26800 Portable Charger.