Monthly Archives: May 2020

Dirty Lake Clean Pool

Posted on May 25, 2020 by gemmell

There are plenty of cities in the world with a big ol’ dirty artificial lake in them. Usually brown in colour, not great to swim in. I was thinking about how you could create a clean pool for swimming in … Continue reading →

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Meta Secure

Posted on May 21, 2020 by gemmell

One of the problems when sending MS Word documents around is that sometimes the meta data that is a part of them can leak internal details. Things like actual meta data, but also comments and revision history. Typically when sending … Continue reading →

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BecauseReasons

Posted on May 19, 2020 by gemmell

So this is a Word and Excel plugin that captures the reasons that certain changes were made. It’s essentially a bit like track changes + comments in a formalised workflow – you make a change, it asks you to comment … Continue reading →

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Phase Change For Heating Into The Night

Posted on May 1, 2020 by gemmell

With the ubiquitous solar on home rooftops, and the sunny days and cold sub zero winter nights, it seems to me that we want to have smart heaters that crank the heat up during the day to take advantage of … Continue reading →

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