This is my first Arduino project. The idea is to make possibly the first tweeting table football table to join the Internet of Things. You see the table at my company is in the kitchen that is in an annex of the office. The goal (pun intended) was to publish the availability of the table to potentially interested players.
Read MoreToday the weather in Paris was just perfect for a bicycle ride. A mostly sunny sky, around 20°C (68°F), neither too hot nor too cold for a 1-hour tour of Paris.
Read MoreI am completely paranoid about backing up my data. I have a NAS server with a pair of hard drives in a RAID 1 array. I use software RAID to be independent of the hardware and I monitor the SMART reports of my drives regularly. So I thought that I was doing everything right and therefore that my NAS was bulletproof. But with three of my drives failing in the past 5 months, I started to question that assumption. So far I have been lucky that I never had two drives fail at the same time. I knew this was a risk but it seemed very unlikely. Now I am not so sure.
Read MoreA colleague this morning introduced me to the wonderful world of Siri proxies.
Read MoreI have been using Gmail for six years as of today. Six Internet years is like 30 years in the real world! It's an amazing testimony to the quality of that service. And it's all for free.
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