Bloodforge.com is now powered by Blogifier. Blogifier is a .NET Core 2.0 project. Because my previous webhost didn’t support .NET Core, I switched over to using Digital Ocean. I wanted to move to Azure, but since I didn’t way to pay more than $5 per month, that wasn’t really an option. This is also the first time in a very long time that my website is running on Linux. So far, so good. ...
I love .NET, but this video is really funny and well done.
The following numbers are all in kWh, and for my single-family house that is about 2,000 square feet, plus basement. All heating is electric. My electric bills usually come in around the 17th to 20th of the month. In the data below, an October value is actually the usage from the second half of September to the first half of October. The data is current as of 5/24/2017. I’ll try to update this monthly. ...
This is a follow-up article to my initial article about my geothermal installation. For the past couple days, Arronco was finishing up their geothermal installation in my house. The first day was spent on removing my existing unit as well as setting up the Byrant geothermal unit (GT-PB). The second day was spent on finishing up the GT-PB install, hooking up the tubes that run outside to the unit, attaching my water heater to the geothermal unit, and finally setting up my thermostat. ...
It was time for me to replace my heat pump, and I got a few bids from local companies. I ended up setting on a geothermal system from Arronco. They came out yesterday to drill the wells where the tubes will go. The first thing to show up was the tubing, delivered by a local delivery company. After that the Arronco geothermal truck showed up. ...
It could have been worse, in that my order could not have arrived. It did arrive, although almost 1 month late and after I spent hours of my time on the phone with Digital River customer support (and many email threads). Feb 10th, 2014 I pre-ordered Final Fantasy 13-3 Lightning Returns from the Square Enix online store, which is powered by Digital River. I had already heard of how bad Digital River can be due to their complete screw-up of the Ni No Kuni Collectors Edition. However, since that had happened about 1 year prior, I thought that they may have already fixed their problems. ...
The Samsung Focus appears to have a bug where if the battery is completely dead (as in, once its dead for a day, leave it in there for another week until it is completely discharged), the phone cannot charge the battery. I have been able to charge the battery by taking it out of the Focus and putting it in other Galaxy-class phones, which do not have this bug. Once the battery was charged up a bit, I was then able to power up the Focus and finish charging the battery. ...
For the past few days, I haven’t been able to use the voice to text feature when searching on my Samsung Focus. It seems like Microsoft knows about the issue, but I hope this gets resolved soon. There is a thread about it already on Microsoft Answers.
Just created my new sig using Google’s QR code API ( http://createqrcode.appspot.com/ ). It creates the codes with error correction (there are some settings that you can use to modify this), so its possible to actually delete a part of it and enter your own image/text in the middle of the QR code. I had to play around a little with my name in the middle. If it is not aligned properly on the QR code or if it covers the wrong area, the code won’t be recognized. ...
The first thing you’ll need to create a custom ringtone in WP7 is an MP3 file. This file must be 40 seconds or shorter (and 1MB or smaller in size). If your MP3 is too large, you can use a program like Audacity to crop it. After you have your MP3 file the correct size, you’ll need to open Zune and make sure that the MP3 is listed in your music collection. Find it in the collection, right click on the MP3, and click on “Edit”. This should bring up a window with the MP3 properties. The only real important thing here is that the genre of the song must be changed to Ringtone. See the image below. ...