Competition: Nest: TTF and Quality of Service

Failure: XOR line on the display (hardware);
Time To Failure: 80 days;
Time on the phone to support: 21 minute 17 seconds;
Result: RMA and new device shipped overnight.

What Google doesn't get about All This Buzz...

...is a simple fact that people are many personas in one.

The Me fixing my cars has nothing to do and wants nothing to do with The Me working for That Big Company, nor The Me obsessed with climate control, nor The Me talking strange tongues, nor The Me playing the sax or doing whatever else.

What's worse, they conflict.

Their areas of interest and social circles are barely, if at all, connected, and quite often information leaking from one circle to another would cause major embarrassment, if not more severe consequences.

Not even talking about the simple fact that a friend of my friend is not necessarily a friend of mine.

It's not even the "nothing to hide" argument, its a simple fact that multiple personas of me are standing in each other's way, and treading on each other's feet, and are annoying each other when they are trying to do something.

Give me multiple personas I can control (without resorting to having multiple accounts, which is a major inconvenience).

Give me privacy controls so I can prevent bleeding of facts from one sphere of interest to another.

Give me a way to separate them.

Then I'll be happy.

I don't see that hapening anytiume soon, though., so for now I'll just buckle up and see if am willing to subject myself to all these voices talking in my headmail all at once.

UPDATE: See? What'd I tell ya? Posted it in the wrong blog. Ah, the hell with it, let it stay here as a lesson. Crossposted to where it belongs.

Google's Energy Monitor... Not? Why?

(From Adafruit): Google PowerMeter is still closed.

Hey! Up there! I want it. And you want me to want it. Open it.

PS: Official letter of request for participation sent to Google PowerMeter team was ignored. Not even so much as an automated email confirmation. Regrettable.