Our home is featured in the 2011 Minneapolis St Paul Home Tour. Come visit our home. You can find a list of all homes on the website: http://www.MSPHomeTour.com We are featuring an addition on our home, as well as solar that was installed last year.
Our home is featured in the 2011 Minneapolis St Paul Home Tour. Come visit our home. You can find a list of all homes on the website: http://www.MSPHomeTour.com We are featuring an addition on our home, as well as solar that was installed last year.
Let's talk about the Tudor Revival Style, which is the predominant style of house in Minneapolis. First of all, what is a Tudor? A Tudor is a house that tries to mimic an English cottage with its decorative half-timbering and stucco walls. An additional noted feature is the prominent chimney. The stucco is usually white […]
The Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce is presenting the Greening Your Business Conference that is coming up in April. This years conference will include two free energy workshops, breakout sessions, and a Leadership in Sustainability Awards ceremony. It also includes an exhibit hall for businesses to share their green products and services. This year, Mayor […]
SyncServices.exe is a program put out by GE Supra for the display key / e-key cradle. It is used in conjuction with SyncInfoApp and stunnel-4.10.exe. The problem that I found with this app is that if you boot your computer with the cradle not attached, it sits and runs at 15% of CPU forever, that […]
Wow! You won’t believe your eyes. You’ll be saying, “How can anyone sell this?” This piece is so special that you’ll get so much use out of it. It will be the focal point of your existence for years to come. This storage cabinet is so much more than what you can find today. It […]
I joined Sitecloud in December after reading good reviews of the service, and just want to summarize my 2 months with them. The first week was fine. I spent time moving about 14 websites to them and got everything running. Boy was it ever fast. My sites would load in 2 or 3 seconds, although […]
There are two types of foreclosures that are commonly used around the country, Foreclosure by Advertisement and Judicial Foreclosure. In Minnesota Foreclosure by Advertisement is the process that is usually used.
Our solar system has been running about a month now. It is comprised of 11 PV panels, each with its own inverter. These inverters are made by Enphase Energy and have monitoring capability built-in. To monitor production, Enphase has a data gathering box called the Envoy. The Envoy goes out on the powerline network and […]
We are saddened by the announcement of the closing of Mike's Corner Store at 56th and Chicago. This store has been in the hood for 18 years, originally starting as a corner drug store. The store changed along with the times and most currently had gifts, cards, movie rentals, and take-and-bake pizzas. The pizza's are […]
We've been up and running for about a week now. Our solar system has a monitoring system so that we can see how much each panel is producing. It will be tracked on the web, but for now, I have manual access. Looking at the data, there is one panel / inverter missing. Either the […]
Everybody has heard the same tried and true methods of saving energy such as turn down the furnace, turn down the a/c, switch to CF bulbs But there are other unique ways to save energy. It all starts with seeing what the largest energy consumers in your house are. In order of greatest use, they are: furnace, a/c, […]