Sooooooo last night my roommate and I started talking about ways to make entry/exit of the apartment easier, and I brought up Smart Door Locks. This naturally led us to a discussion of how we could get someone into the actual building so we could then let them use the Smart Door Lock to get into our specific apartment.

He mentioned it would be cool to have some sort of remote control for the buzzer/intercom system and I said it’s so funny you say that because I’ve been thinking about that too.  I said, it’s probably a simple wire jumper that triggers it.

Well, I was right.  And now I have a new project to work on. 🙂  This will be an on-going series, because I think this is fscking awesome.

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Pic not relevant to the discussion, admittedly. >_>

So, I’m a bit behind on posts this month because of dealing with landlord and contract negotiations, as well as studying for my boat safety certificate exam. Sorry about that!

Today we bring the question about apache and auth: why is it peculiar?

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So, today at work I was working on a mileage tracking webform (more on that another day).  I took a brief break to clear my head, and stumbled across a very interesting tweet.

I, of course, did not bookmark it at the time because I thought it was a trivial question and a trivial answer.

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This is an early one, normally we don’t get a driving situation video until about halfway, maybe three-quarters-way through the month.  This month is different, obviously.

The video is presented without comment.  You know, other than to say “OH SHIT.”

-M, out

p.s. Great job on the auto-generated thumbnails YouTube.  PERFECT.