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First Impressions: 2017 Subaru Impreza
For the last year and half, I've been looking for a new car. My 2003 Toyota Highlander has been starting to show its age. It has low mileage, but I've had to do some maintenance on it. In addition, the only tech I have on it is a radio I installed about 2 years ago with Bluetooth. One of the features I've really wanted is Apple's CarPlay as it would allow me to have a familiar interface in the car for navigation, media, and phone. While the number of cars with CarPlay available has been increasing, most haven't been cars that I'd want to own.
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Cleaning up a mess
Over the course of the last few years, my closet of networking equipment has grown and while everything works, it wasn't the prettiest sight. I had originally tried to color code all the cables and arrange things as neatly as possible, but it didn't quite work out. I finally got tired of looking at it (after viewing pictures of other people's clean networking racks), purchased a 48 port patch panel that had RJ45 connectors on the front and the back and a bunch of white cables of various sizes (color coding was a waste for me as it really didn't matter what went where). My original plan when I setup the rack was to use patch panels, but at the time, I was looking at patch panels that I had to terminate in the back; this would have meant a bunch of wires coming from the wall that I'd terminate in the panel. I opted to put all the RJ45 jacks in the wall and have patch cords going from the wall to the equipment.
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Fragmented World Of Payments
Last Saturday we ran a number of errands and at the end of the day something dawned on me: I had used several different payment systems and the payment process remains awkward for most of them.
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Review: Jarvis desk
I've been reading about how bad sitting is for your health and basically ignored it by saying that I get up enough and I run. Lately there have been even more studies saying that exercise doesn't help the situation. I still wasn't convinced.