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Heating can be completely stopped by middle April in Eastern Massachusetts reducing a two-floor home's electricity bill to less than $70 (< 500 KWH) through late October. This requires good insulation, smart management of energy efficient windows, skylights to allow radiation in during the day and…

SPECIFICATIONS Amperage (amps) 18.8 A Application Type Residential Assembled Depth (in.) 19.75 in Assembled Height (in.) 46.75 in Assembled Width (in.) 19.75 in Certifications and Listings 1-UL Listed ENERGY STAR Certified No Finish Steel Finish Family Beige/Bisque First Hour of Delivery (gallons/hr) 62.0 Fuel Type…

A heat pump can also function as an air conditioner by reversing its compressor valve. American Standard produces two brands - Trane and American Standard. Trane acquired GE's HVAC unit in 1980s, then was bought by American Standard. 2A6H4030 means: 2 - R-22 refrigerant A…

WinUI was initiated in 2018, tried WinUI for the first time finally in December 2023 in an attempt to migrate from Uno UWP to Uno WinUI. It was so flaky and lacking many UWP functions that I stopped quickly. WinUI may be good for some…

Windows Phone icons are cute. SDK7.1 comes with a set of commonly used icons (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v8.1\Icons). CESPage.com also has a free set of cute icons though some of them are duplicates of the SDK's. Mashtech has a list of Top 10 Beautiful Minimalist Icon Sets. Noun…

13:30 Ipswich 🚗Traffic was heavy, but no jam. Flurries started soon before reaching the parking garage. The parking garage has lights to show the availability of every parking space. 14:45 Manchester Boston-Regional Airport. The was no line for checking in. The free Wi-Fi provided by…

16:06 Ipswich 🚆 Use mTicket app to buy the ticket ($10.5) 16:46 Chelsea 16:55 Chelsea 🚌 SL3 17:05 Logan Airport 21:50 Terminal E ✈️ Swiss 53 11:10 Zurich 🛬 12:25 ✈️ Swiss 1888 15:45 Bucharest Airport 14:50 M4 station is right outside the airport hall. A…

Packages sent by UPS Mail Innovations go through the following: Arrive at the nearest UPS Mail Innovations facility (e.g. Urbancrest, OH for northern Pennsylvania) the same day as the pickup. Arrive at the destination UPS Mail Innovations facility (e.g. Windsor, CT for Massachusetts) on day 3 (i.e. takes two…

Suppose the domain name is foo.com and one wants to configure hMailServer for email account foo@foo.com After the above steps, email client applications (e.g. Outlook, Thunderbird) can be configured with the account foo@foo.com using mail.foo.com as both the incoming server and the outgoing server. It…

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SmarterMail is a very well made application. It is highly functional and very user friendly. Its setup is quite easy even if it is used to host emails of multiple domains. The way it works is the following: When setting up SmarterMail server, the email…

MailEnable is a very capable and friendly eMail server. Setting up an email in MailEnable is extremely easy with MailEnable Management : Please pay attention to the user name. It is usually userid@mydomaincom, not the same as the email address userid@mydomain.com. In other words, there is…

hMailServer is a superb free e-mail server for Microsfot Windows. Suppose the domain name is foo.com and one wants to configure hMailServer for email accounts such as foo@foo.com At the domain host site (e.g. 1and1): At hMailServer After the above steps, email client applications (e.g. Outlook,…

Punta Cana is the most tourists place, so it has the most flights, making the flights there the most inexpensive one. Manchester-Boston Regional Airport is the best airport and has a reasonable parking rate at $15/day. A round trip to DR costs less than $600.

Six Mile Riesling: light, sweet. Suits my taste well

I bought a GoPro HERO 8 BLACK at Costco just before my Rt. 1 trip from Boston to Columbia, South Carolina in March 2021. I managed to lose one of the two batteries after the trip. I use the camera mainly for cycling, skiing, and…

My dash cam use started with generic dash cam probably in 2017. It was so unreliable that I had to replace it with Garmin Dash Cam 45 with a 1080p resolution. It was very reliably but its image quality was limited. I replaced it with…

2004-06-09 Hong and the Lord of Lynn Woods, Bill

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I volunteered at the great organization Boston Rescue Mission (BRM) a few times. This was in 2007. I love the staff and residents there. I hope many of them have got back on their feet and are enjoying a great life