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		<title>Preparing for Hurricane Irene in Eastern New York</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With Hurricane Irene on the way to the Northeast and possibly making it through our area with 80-100mph winds on Saturday evening on into Sunday it&#8217;s important to make a few preparations just in case.  The Northeast hasn&#8217;t been hit by a hurricane like this in many years and it&#8217;s not really something people are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thaltech.com/houseblog/2011/08/24/preparing-for-hurricane-irene-in-eastern-new-york/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=preparing-for-hurricane-irene-in-eastern-new-york</link>
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		<title>Painted the Laundry Room / Mud Room</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The laundry/mud room got painted this weekend. What in the world could one do with a really long weekend? Why paint, of course! D&#8217;oh! We got tired of seeing how crappy the entry way looked so I decided to pick up some paint and stuff needed to paint the room. The room is part burnt-orange [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thaltech.com/houseblog/2011/07/05/painted-the-laundry-room-mud-room/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=painted-the-laundry-room-mud-room</link>
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		<title>Something&#8217;s Been Eating my Plants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been noticing as the flowers in the planters have started to sprout that something has been nibbling the tops off of them. They&#8217;re still growing, they&#8217;re just a bit mangled. The other day I was looking out the window and saw the culprit so I took some photos of it. You can see in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thaltech.com/houseblog/2011/05/07/somethings-been-eating-my-plants/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=somethings-been-eating-my-plants</link>
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		<title>Replace Brakes, Air Filter, Valve Cover Gasket 1987 Honda Accord</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week has been pretty successful for automotive work. Bryn&#8217;s car has been needing some maintenance and it&#8217;s been warm enough this week to be outside and take care of it. Bryn&#8217;s car is a West Coast 1987 Honda Accord DX with the carbeurated 2.0 liter 4-cylinder (it&#8217;s actually 1.996 Liters) so it&#8217;s in pretty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thaltech.com/houseblog/2011/03/25/replace-brakes-air-filter-valve-cover-gasket-1987-honda-accord/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=replace-brakes-air-filter-valve-cover-gasket-1987-honda-accord</link>
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		<title>Do You Have Strange Charges on your Cellphone Bill?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently at work I ran into someone asking me about one of our cell phone bills which had a weird charge on it. Originally the guy that had the phone thought he had accidentally subscribed to some app service called &#8216;NewUNeed&#8217; so we went through his phone checking for any apps or anything else which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thaltech.com/houseblog/2011/03/22/do-you-have-strange-charges-on-your-cellphone-bill/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=do-you-have-strange-charges-on-your-cellphone-bill</link>
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		<title>Strange Problems with Your Car? It&#8217;s probably Gremlins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure some of us have experienced leaving your perfectly working car over-night then coming back in the morning to find that there&#8217;s some strange problem with it. Perhaps the electrical system isn&#8217;t working right, or your brake fluid is leaking or something else is leaking.  Perhaps there&#8217;s a rattling inside your engine compartment or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thaltech.com/houseblog/2011/03/20/strange-problems-with-your-car-its-probably-gremlins/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=strange-problems-with-your-car-its-probably-gremlins</link>
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		<title>Elite Screens ELIM92UWH Pull Down Projector Screen Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just received the Elite Screens ELIM92UWH pull down projector screen today and installed it and I really like it! The screen came in a couple of days after my Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 8350 1080p LCD projector arrived. I originally had used an Epson Duet screen for the projector until this new screen arrived. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thaltech.com/houseblog/2011/03/15/elite-screens-elim92uwh-pull-down-projector-screen-review/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=elite-screens-elim92uwh-pull-down-projector-screen-review</link>
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		<title>Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 8350 User Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent some time researching and shopping for affordable 1080p projectors for my home entertainment system the last couple of months and finally settled on the Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 8350 (V11H373120) 3 LCD projector (Specifications (PDF), User Manual (PDF), Image Size Calculator) that costs around $1150 for my budget home theater setup. I researched [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thaltech.com/houseblog/2011/03/12/epson-powerlite-home-cinema-8350/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=epson-powerlite-home-cinema-8350</link>
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		<title>My Mice vs Ortho Max Kill and Contain Mouse Trap and Humane Traps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay so here&#8217;s my mouse trap story. I&#8217;ve known for a while there were mice in the basement.  If you&#8217;re a reader of my blog you know that my basement is just a hole blown in the blue stone/shale big enough for giant spiders, the water heater, furnace, oil tank and mice.  It&#8217;s about 5 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thaltech.com/houseblog/2011/03/05/my-mice-vs-ortho%c2%ae-home-defense%c2%ae-max-kill-and-contain-mouse-trap/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=my-mice-vs-ortho%25c2%25ae-home-defense%25c2%25ae-max-kill-and-contain-mouse-trap</link>
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		<title>New Project Underway</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a new project I&#8217;m working on. I&#8217;m pretty excited about this one but I&#8217;m not going to go into too much detail yet.  I was at a surplus shop the other day and picked up some pieces I needed for the new project.  Can you guess at what I&#8217;m building by looking at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thaltech.com/houseblog/2011/03/02/new-project-underway/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=new-project-underway</link>
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		<title>Okay We&#8217;ve Gotten Quite a Bit More Snow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My last post, quite a while ago was &#8220;We Finally Got Some Snow&#8221; and since then we&#8217;ve been hit by storm after storm.  It&#8217;s a lot of work clearing out the snow and such, but it&#8217;s pretty cool to have a good Winter finally after several years of lame ones. We&#8217;re still in the midst [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thaltech.com/houseblog/2011/02/01/okay-weve-gotten-quite-a-bit-more-snow/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=okay-weve-gotten-quite-a-bit-more-snow</link>
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		<title>We Finally Got Some Snow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well after watching everyone else in the country get some snow we finally got a little bit over the weekend. I don&#8217;t know how much snow actually fell in our area, but it came along with high winds and drifted quite high in the yard. In some areas around here it was blown down to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thaltech.com/houseblog/2010/12/28/we-finally-got-some-snow/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=we-finally-got-some-snow</link>
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		<title>Review:Monitoring Power Usage With TED 5000-C Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In part one of my TED Power Monitor Review I covered the installation of the TED-5000 Energy Usage Monitor. In part 2 I will cover the software features and functionality of the Footprints software included with TED.  In part 3 I am going to cover the setup and usage of Google Power Meter. Please remember [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thaltech.com/houseblog/2010/11/27/reviewmonitoring-power-usage-with-ted-5000-c-part-2/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=reviewmonitoring-power-usage-with-ted-5000-c-part-2</link>
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		<title>Winter Is Passing Me By to Visit Washington State! Noooooo!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Winter in the North East has been pretty mild lately. I&#8217;m a bit disappointed of course. My poor snow BLOWER (thrower? pshht!) is not getting the attention or work it desires and is becoming flabby.  As I told my folks it&#8217;s bellowing out in the barn waiting to be unleashed and I might have to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thaltech.com/houseblog/2010/11/23/winter-is-passing-me-by-to-visit-washington-state-noooooo/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=winter-is-passing-me-by-to-visit-washington-state-noooooo</link>
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		<title>Review: Monitoring Power Usage With TED 5000-C Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been wanting a way to monitor my home power usage for a while and recently did a lot more research.  The folks at TED (The Energy Detective) had a selection of products which rated well and I ended up buying the TED 5000-C. These are not installation instructions, just showing you how I installed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thaltech.com/houseblog/2010/11/23/review-monitoring-power-usage-with-ted-5000-c-part-1/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=review-monitoring-power-usage-with-ted-5000-c-part-1</link>
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		<title>Cool Video for Stats Geeks or those with Short Attention Spans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I ran across this video today from fark.com and it has to be one of the more interesting videos I have seen in a long time. It&#8217;s an older video, at least two years old, so some of you may have seen it already.  The video is the story of Little Red Riding Hood and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thaltech.com/houseblog/2010/10/05/cool-video-for-stats-geeks/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=cool-video-for-stats-geeks</link>
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		<title>Some Changes to the Thaltech.com Website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve decided to break up the Jon&#8217;s Home Blog a bit, there&#8217;s too much of a mix of information on this site for it to index very well and be findable, and also for visitors to find related content on what they came here for. I have added two new domains http://www.jonslasers.com/ which contains the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thaltech.com/houseblog/2010/09/25/some-changes-to-the-thaltech-com-website/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=some-changes-to-the-thaltech-com-website</link>
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		<title>Mini-Titan e325 Night Flying LED Setup Progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am working to convert my ACE Mini-Titan e325 to a night-flying setup. Since winter is on the way, the only time I&#8217;ll be able to fly is later on in the day when the sun is low, or gone so this is a perfect excuse to play with lighting. I purchased 2 feet of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thaltech.com/houseblog/2010/09/21/mini-titan-e325-night-flying-led-setup-progress/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=mini-titan-e325-night-flying-led-setup-progress</link>
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		<title>NEAT Fair 2010 Photographs and Videos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are quite a few photos that I&#8217;ve uploaded and they&#8217;re in the gallery below, just open them and use the left/right buttons at the bottom of the viewer pane to move between photos. There were a lot of great pilots at the NEAT fair and some really fun events as well.  The helicopter section [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thaltech.com/houseblog/2010/09/18/neat-fair-2010-photographs-and-videos/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=neat-fair-2010-photographs-and-videos</link>
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		<title>Analyzing Your Radio Controlled Helicopters Current Consumption</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been flying quite a bit and not paying much attention to the load I&#8217;ve been putting on my speed controller. Today I plugged my CC50 ICE into the computer to check out my last few flights. I was quite surprised. Most of my flying did not load the ESC as much as I had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thaltech.com/houseblog/2010/09/13/analyzing-your-radio-controlled-helicopters-current-consumption/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=analyzing-your-radio-controlled-helicopters-current-consumption</link>
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