This website

This is the main website of the Gisvold family, with a number of subsidiary web services:

Tor's blog

Tor's moblog (mobile phone blog)

Explorer scout website

Our house online

- this is our growing house energy monitoring system online.

Our house on Twitter

- this is our growing house energy monitoring system twittering.

The entries below this one are the sum of the most recent entries in all the blogs and other services on this site.
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Electricity usage as recorded by the Wattson

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and as recorded and graphed on pachube for a period of a month

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This is our house electricity usage - read in realtime by Ruby software running on a Mac Mini (home grown software as such) through the Wattsons USB port.
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Our home monitoring system is coming along with the addition of a set of jeenodes (see them as wireless and battery driven Arduinos)

The slave nodes look like this :

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the green box houses the 3 AA batteries making this a truly wireless solution, enabling me to move this around to anywhere in the house.

At the server things look like this

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My favourite safety/disk utility - SoftRaid does not work with Snow Leopard OsX - and the new release has been "in the works" since early 2009.

But there is hope - as their website has the following new announcement :

The SoftRAID 4.0 official release is near. We expect sometime in late January to mid February 2010. Upgrades from SoftRAID 3.x will cost $69. All customers who purchased after January 1, 2009, are eligible for a free upgrade to SoftRAID 4.0.
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Our weather station is now online at http://www.gisvold.co.uk:81/weather/LWCWeb/ - as a experiment until I get all the data gathered in one place.

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