tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1574402 2008-05-18T22:30:37-07:00 Leveraging disintermediated synergies TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-50061910 2008-05-18T22:30:37-07:00 2008-05-18T22:30:37-07:00

Every few months our family makes a visit to the animal shelter to check out all the critters. Until now it has always been pretty non-committal - mostly for everyone to say "hi" to our little furry buddies. This Saturday,...

Chris Staszak http://www.staze.net/blog/2008/05/introducing-bea.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-49832178 2008-05-13T18:02:47-07:00 2008-05-13T18:02:47-07:00

In a rare moment of weakness, I broke my Zen master concentration for a few milliseconds during the morning commute and ended up kissing the bumper of a full size pickup truck. I was going perhaps 5, no more than...

Chris Staszak http://www.staze.net/blog/2008/05/prius-vs-pickup.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-49803980 2008-05-13T07:40:13-07:00 2008-05-13T07:40:13-07:00

Many of us have oodles of electronic gizmos plugged into power outlets 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The trouble is even when these items are not "turned off" and not in use, many are consuming power -...

Chris Staszak http://www.staze.net/blog/2008/05/vampire-power.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-49719678 2008-05-11T20:33:55-07:00 2008-05-11T20:33:55-07:00

By the title of this post alone it's clear that I was scarred as a youngster, probably on some road trip trying to read the mudflaps on a semi trucking down the interstate. What is really on my mind are...

Chris Staszak http://www.staze.net/blog/2008/05/soap-nuts-drive.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-49690980 2008-05-10T21:31:10-07:00 2008-05-10T21:31:10-07:00

As part of my campaign to reduce energy consumption, I've been eyeing LED bulbs as the ultimate in lighting efficiency. However, as I mentioned some posts back, they do have their drawbacks - primarily lacking sufficient light to be useful...

Chris Staszak http://www.staze.net/blog/2008/05/attack-of-the-s.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-49658856 2008-05-09T22:34:19-07:00 2008-05-09T22:34:19-07:00

I finally got around to creating an account on CleanMPG.com and getting my mileage log up to date. It's a pretty nice setup for capturing and displaying mileage data. My record thus far: I like the fact that temperature data...

Chris Staszak http://www.staze.net/blog/2008/05/cleanmpg-mileag.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-48876838 2008-04-22T21:27:36-07:00 2008-04-22T21:27:36-07:00

Ok, even I admit the topic of refrigerators leaves a little to be desired. I think I can explain myself out of this, so here goes nothing. About a month ago my Kill-A-Watt EZ came in the mail. I decided...

Chris Staszak http://www.staze.net/blog/2008/04/refrigerators.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-48828340 2008-04-21T23:27:44-07:00 2008-04-21T23:27:44-07:00

Four months into the new car and I am really enjoying it. Certainly I would prefer to spend less time commuting and doing other useful things, but those be the breaks. Lifetime mileage is still doing pretty well, right in...

Chris Staszak http://www.staze.net/blog/2008/04/prius-update--.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-48743334 2008-04-20T19:44:29-07:00 2008-04-20T19:44:29-07:00

I've been deep under cover the past few weeks - out of town tending to family affairs, etc. Life should be getting somewhat back to normal for me now, which means the blog machinery is starting to spin up again....

Chris Staszak http://www.staze.net/blog/2008/04/war-on-junk-mai.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-47948762 2008-04-03T22:08:49-07:00 2008-04-03T22:08:49-07:00

It's been a while since I've noted anything interesting on the F# front. I've been off and on wrestling with getting some F# features such as quotations [PDF] to work properly on OS X/Mono. One expert opinion is inclined to...

Chris Staszak http://www.staze.net/blog/2008/04/f-update.html