Back from my break over the holidays! Back to work, son is back to school. I
didn't publish any articles over the break, but that doesn't mean I wasn&
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I recently read the following blog post post by Matthew Sag, "One More Sign
World Is Shrinking – eBay is for Suckers [http://matthewsag.com/?p=1642]". It
compelled me to tell
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Time flies when you're having fun! I'm really happy to be back in Silicon Valley
after returning from Calgary (and Edmonton). Nothing like being back, getting up
in the
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This review is a long-time in coming. Back at the end of 2013 I wrote an article
on Enabling a USB to Serial Port Adapter in OSX
[https://robpickering.com/enabling-a-usb-to-serial-port-adapter-under-os-x-10-9-mavericks/]
. The issue
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Today Apple released iOS 10.2
[http://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2016/12/12/apple-ios-10-2-is-now-available-what-is-included-in-the-update/#43b8479976be]
which, among some other features, includes support for Cable TV (and other)
provider Single Sign-on and
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The second week of my new blog and I was able to accelerate the number of
articles that I published, even during a heavy travel week at work. Two of the
articles were
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The team behind the Joeveo Temperfect Mug had quite a story in bringing this
product to market: tree through roof, hurricane, bad factories, scheduling,
design issues, and production issues. The concept is that
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Ube renamed themselves to Plum and renamed the WiFi Connected Smart Light Dimmer
to Lightpad. The Plum Lightpad is a WiFi-Connected "Smart Switch". It installs
in place of an existing dimmer
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I recently saw an article on another blog where the author documents all of the
books that he read
[https://medium.com/personal-growth/every-book-ive-read-in-2016-afedade17695#.6cy23hazh]
during the course of the year. I like
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Internet of Things (IoT)
The Internet of Things is a label that the computer industry, the media, and
manufacturers have created to describe small devices that live on a network and
provide a
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It's my first Weekly Update since my re-launch and I had quite a bit of activity
this week. On the blog:
1. It's a new Blog! [https://robpickering.com/
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So, you may get a shiny new quadcopter for Christmas and you’re itching to fly
it outside? Don’t. You’ll wreck it. Seriously. Much like Ralphie in “A
Christmas Story [http:
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Recently I've been inspired in a number of areas by Mr. Troy Hunt. I have always
followed security professionals and tried to stay on top of the landscape. I
recently started
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On May 9th, I started a new career.
This wasn’t something I had planned. I’ve been the VP/CIO of Information
Services for my former company for a decade. Before that
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