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Our GeoThermal Install Experience
We first considered GeoThermal a few years ago, but we decided to move forward when our 30 year old AC unit broke down last year and we were looking at a $6K expense to replace it we decided the expense … Continue reading
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Evaluating Home Heating Oil Services
We recently went through the experience of changing our home heating oil delivery service after 17 years with the same provider – it was an eye opening experience. As a consequence of this change we’ve come to the realization that … Continue reading
Improving Home Energy Usage
A few months ago we had an energy audit performed by Next Step Living courtesy of the Mass Save Home Energy Services program. They identified several areas where we could improve including adding an addition layer of insulation in our … Continue reading
Optimizing VPN in a Mixed Cloud & Office SMB Deployment
Here we look at the benefits and challenges in deploying an opensource VPN in a custom Amazon Web Services cloud instance, considering OpenVPN and OpenSWAN as the two prime candidates while outlining some of our selection criteria for the choice of solution. I’ve also identified some motivation here to shift from my beloved iPhone to an Android device – depending on how important I believe VPN access may be from my smart phone / tablet to my home / business. Continue reading
Social Networking the BM (Brick & Mortar)
I’m sitting in the local Dunkin Donuts writing a blog entry on my iPhone – not really a remarkable event. I guess the remarkable part revolves around the question “Why Dunkin Donuts?” as I am – without question – a … Continue reading