Whether you have a smart TV or not, you can make a TV smarter by simply adding a computer. Going with OSMC on a Raspberry Pi is easy on your budget and it’s nice and small so you don’t have to clutter up your living room. I’m writing this as a “how I did it” […]

QR codes, or “Quick Response” codes, are the next iteration of bar codes. They work better than bar codes because they provide their own context and can contain much more information than standard bar codes. People like to create QR codes to print on posters, in magazines, or on business cards to quickly redirect someone […]

Modern browsers usually have the address bar and a search bar, or in the case of Google Chrome they’re combined. I’ve been using a little trick that allows me to search practically any website from within the address bar using keywords to determine where I want to search. I type ‘g’ to search Google, ‘pirate’ […]

There are going to be times when you put the baby to bed but it’s nowhere near your own bedtime. You would like to take this precious time to perhaps watch a movie on the couch downstairs or just relax with a cold beer, but you need to keep an eye or ear on the […]

I just went through the wonderful experience of going on holiday. It’s been quite a while since I’ve last gone and this time I had the added challenge of bringing along my 4 and a half month old daughter. Luckily my best friend and his wife were also going, so at least- in his words- […]

My little girl is growing so fast. It’s amazing how so many of her clothes don’t fit anymore. This makes me quite wary of buying outfits for her, even though I’d really like for her to have some cool heavy metal band shirts. This is exactly why you need to have friends who also have […]

For the past couple of years I have been working with a gentleman who spends his time raising money to build schools for rural area villages in Myanmar (also known as Burma). I haven’t actually been to any of those villages or visited any of these schools, but I support this project and hereby give […]

Let’s say, just for the sake of this discussion, that Facebook, Twitter and YouTube will be around for another couple of decades. Let them survive with all the content they’ve amassed for long enough for our kids to grow up so they can browse back dozens of years. Imagine a child at, let’s say, 16 […]

On May 20th, 2015, my brother became an uncle, my sister became an aunt, my parents became grandparents, my wife became a mother and I became a father. People say that having a child is an amazing feeling, but I realized on that day, that is something you can’t describe. It’s a feeling that you […]

When building websites, there are little things you can do to make your website appear better to search engines and social networks. Here is a list of a bunch of those things; little snippets of code. I will try to keep this page updated with new things that I learn, and from suggestions in the […]