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Archive for November, 2008

Limitations reading small glass RFID implant tags

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

A lot of my RFID Toys readers often email me or post on the forum telling me about problems they are having using glass tags with certain readers. Mostly the issue is not being able to get good range, etc. When it comes to RFID tags, especially glass ampoule tags, size matters. There are several […]

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Posted in Adventures in RFID | 5 Comments »

Open source OpenBeacon 2.4GHz active RFID platform for real time tracking

Open source OpenBeacon 2.4GHz active RFID platform for real time tracking

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

A while back I heard of this open source 2.4GHz active RFID platform called OpenBeacon. At the time I thought it was simply an open source active RFID system, which really only appealed to me because the end products might be cheap enough for broke hobbyists to play with. When time finally permitted me to […]

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Posted in Adventures in RFID, Reviews | 26 Comments »

As if to prove my point

As if to prove my point

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

As if to prove my point, today I was walking through my kitchen and Jennifer had left one of her magazines on the kitchen island. It caught my eye only because I thought, for a second, I was passing by a picture of Nicole Kidman showing her vajayjay. The left arm placement brings the eye […]

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When irregular is more captivating than "perfect"

When irregular is more captivating than “perfect”

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

There’s nothing I love more than wandering around doing daily tasks when something suddenly strikes me as so strange or odd that I have to stop and look… and hopefully get a laugh out of it too. For instance, I was walking around Target one day and I had just finished up a conversation about […]

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Posted in Life in general | 3 Comments »

How to remove “GPT Protected Partition” from hard drive in Windows

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

In cleaning out my junk, I found several hard drives that I pulled from servers and various workstations. I wanted to ensure I was not selling or tossing drives with data on them, so I connected them up to my XP workstation to kill partitions and reformat the drives. I ran into a few GPT […]

Posted in Server Management | 2 Comments »

Fall Cleaning!

Fall Cleaning!

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

I never understood spring cleaning. Well, I mean, I know it came about because back in the 12th century when people didn’t have fiberglass insulation, they made their homes/huts/whatever about as air tight as possible to keep the heat in during the winter months. Of course, this lead to a build up of dust and […]

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