How to find things

Nice 12-step summary of how to find things. The best advice is knowing when to stop and wait for the object to pop up of its own accord.

RFID ain’t smart

Interesting point from Sviokla: RFID requires a smart centre tracking dumb parts on the edge. Maybe this works for 80% of inventory, but it is the 20% that it doesn’t that causes all the problems. So smart “motes” might be the answer which add some...

Zeitgeist

A good looking summary of the zeitgeist with multiple feeds on one page.

Menacing dustbin

Sounds like a spam name, but is actually what I found on the front porch this morning at 1:30am after a noise woke me up. Yup, our thieving chums came back. They once again didn’t get in, but jemmyed the window up half an inch – my DIY screws-in-the-frame...