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Monday, July 06, 2009 11:20 AM

Sitting in deployment – Microsoft Hohm goes live

Other than a few minor DNS hiccups, Microsoft Hohm went live this morning. The team’s been sitting in a conference room on campus since about 5:30 this morning watching things spin up. We’re triaging other issues, but so far there have been no show-stopper
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009 3:55 PM

Announcing Microsoft Hohm

So, I haven’t been blogging much over the last year or so. But, there’s a reason. I couldn’t really talk much about what I’ve been working on. Turns out, starting today, I can. This morning we announced Microsoft Hohm . Once again I’m playing the role
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Friday, December 26, 2008 10:35 AM

Why are thermostats like a VCR?

Actually, I don’t have an answer. For some reason thermostats still seem to follow a 1980s user paradigm. There are days where a simple T-50 (you know, the round thermostat) model would work tremendously better. I needed to change my thermostat settings,
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:18 AM

Temperature inversion

Well, turns out doing a bunch of home “tightening” has some interesting effects on the climate in the house (and helped locate a few external leaks that were missed). My house is what’s called a tri-level. That is you enter on the main floor which has
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Thursday, November 20, 2008 10:02 AM

It’s getting warmer in Bellevue?

I’ve been paying attention to two different things about my house for the last year or so (while I’ve gone dark). The first is that it’s unusually cold in parts of the house, the house is showing its age, and the single-pane windows always seem to be
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