I’ve been to plenty of lunches and dinners with various friends, family and business associates where the conversation hits one of those common yet uncomfortable lulls in the conversation.
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Archive for the ‘strange-tech’ Category:
Using Google Trends to Spot Bed Bug Problematic Areas
Recently, there has been an increase in the amount of homes, hotels and businesses in the United States that have detected pest infestation. A poll was conducted by the New York Daily News that suggested that 1 in 10 New Yorkers has bed bugs.
I wanted to know what other States had a bed bug infestation problem, so I navigated over to Google Trends and did a search for bed bugs. After narrowing that search down to the United States, the top 10 cities States searching for this term in the last 30 days were:
Solar Storm Can be the Cause of Network Hardware Failures
I was working for a firm in Chicago a few years ago when we had two Cisco Supervisor modules on separate Catalyst 6500 series switches die in the same night. The hardware was located in two different locations with completely different power sources. Knowing the failure rate of this equipment, having two failures in one night is very rare. After a lengthy investigation by the Cisco technical assistance team, it was determined that the failures were due to a similar solar flare that hit our site with cosmic radiation.
Portable Power for USB Gadgets
I’ve seen those portable battery packs either that click into the bottom of the iPhone or that are integrated into a case. Those intrigued me but I was looking for something more “robust” that would let me charge several different devices and not just the iPod/iPhone. In addition, I didn’t want a backup battery that could charge my phone one time and then run out of juice. I never really know when the next time will be when I get to wall power so I needed something that could handle multiple charges. While in Taipei Taiwan, I found just was I was looking for. The box and manual were in Chinese but on the case it says: Portable Power. The model number is ZT-9801.
QR Code Research on the Bus to Bangkok
Oishi green tea juice box I was given by the bus service contained a QR code.
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