Author Archives: romkey

Air Quality Egg Helper Browser Extension

Posted on April 15, 2013 by romkey

I picked up a couple of Air Quality Eggs through Kickstarter. They’re neat gadgets that can be equipped with a variety of sensors to monitor the air. I’ll write more about them later. For now I just want to announce … Continue reading →

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Pill Pockets

Posted on March 21, 2013 by romkey

Now that our cats are becoming elderly, they need some kitty meds. Nothing too serious, but some daily pills, probably more to come. We’re very fortunate to have cats who love pill pockets and are not clever enough to extract … Continue reading →

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Down One Cat

Posted on March 18, 2013 by romkey

Temporarily. Zooty and Rebo are 15 years old now and are starting to show some wear and tear. Rebo is recently on blood pressure medication (older kidney problems led to high blood pressure which led to thickening of the heart … Continue reading →

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Feeling the Love browser extension

Posted on February 14, 2013 by romkey

I was curious about writing browser extensions so I decided to put together a simple one for Google’s Chrome browser. Some time back, Ryan Freebern, a friend who put together the first decent layout for UVFood.com, released a bit of … Continue reading →

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Low Frame Rate in World of Warcraft on a Retina MacBook Pro

Posted on February 10, 2013 by romkey

World of Warcraft has been running frustratingly slowly on my Retina MacBook Pro. Though it has a lot of pixels to push the machine’s CPU and GPU are quite fast… and Warcraft had been running much better. In fact, it … Continue reading →

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