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10 Years of Storing Receipts Electronically
Just about 10 years ago, I got frustrated trying to find a receipt and embarked on storing all my receipts electronically. At the time, I couldn't find a Mac application to do this, so I wrote my own called ReceiptWallet, now called Paperless. I started scanning in just about every receipt and stored the receipts by year. This may seem quite excessive to many, but I've found that having easy access to receipts is invaluable.
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Review: UniFi Switch 8
Three years ago when we bought our house, I decided I wanted to put in surveillance cameras. When selecting the cameras, I decided that the cameras had to be powered by PoE (Power over Ethernet) so that I could change out the cameras later on if I wanted to and didn't have to worry about dragging a separate wire for power which could be different for different cameras. At the time I was looking, the number of small, fanless switches that did PoE was quite small. I decided on a Cisco SG300-10P which is a 10 port managed switch with 8 of the ports being PoE.
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Did I find my next new car?
In January, I wrote that I've delayed my decision to buy a new car. Last weekend I had some car trouble where my car wouldn't start and had to deal with it. My son asked me if I was going to get a new car and I said no; I'd just get it repaired. However, I decided to look at Apple's CarPlay site and pursued the list of cars that support it. None of the typical American cars like Ford or Chevy interested me and I am not getting a Ferrari! I saw that the 2017 Subaru Impreza will support it. At the auto show, I saw the Impreza and it was a decent looking car. It didn't have CarPlay and wasn't a plugin hybrid. Now that it will have CarPlay, I've decided to take another look. Plugin hybrids are kind of the neglected step child of car manufacturers; it's either hybrid or electric which kind of concerns me in terms of reliability and support. I'm going to forego the plugin hybrid for now and that should open up my search.
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Commuting
In the last 4 weeks, I've commuted more than I have in the last 17 years. I'm starting to get used to the routine; the 30 minute drive each day isn't too bad, but it is an hour out of my day that I can't get back. I know that people commute everyday, but it is new to me.