{"id":3357,"date":"2007-10-26T22:43:33","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T02:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/26\/not-so-smart-meter\/"},"modified":"2009-05-17T10:57:55","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T14:57:55","slug":"not-so-smart-meter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/26\/not-so-smart-meter\/","title":{"rendered":"not-so-smart meter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We got our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontohydro.com\/electricsystem\/residential\/smart_meter\/index.cfm\">smart meter<\/a> installed today. Unfortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/c-raine.com\/\">Catherine<\/a> didn&#8217;t quite understand why there was a knock on the door, then her computer went bee<small>eey<\/small><small>yoo<\/small><small>ooww<\/small> &#8230; then all our clocks caught the &lt;blink&gt; tag.<\/p>\n<p>While I like smart meters, this one isn&#8217;t quite as smart as it could be. To me, a smart meter needs to have a big display of your current demand, and needs to be inscribed with a suitable message like &#8220;Quit using so much juice, you cretin!&#8221; It also needs to hook into local time-of-use pricing, which me being\u00c2\u00a0 green and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bullfrogpower.com\/\">Bullfrog<\/a> customer and all, I don&#8217;t get to take part in. Boo.<\/p>\n<p>But what could have really gone sideways was my own desktop, which was quietly chugging away installing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/\">Ubuntu 7.10<\/a>. Since I started using Linux in 1995, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever had a system upgrade go totally smoothly. This time, though, I was lucky &#8211; the system must have fully initialised before we lost power.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t honestly say I see any difference between Feisty Fawn and Gutsy Gibbon; they both are fairly pretty, and just work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got our smart meter installed today. Unfortunately, Catherine didn&#8217;t quite understand why there was a knock on the door, then her computer went beeeeyyooooww &#8230; then all our clocks caught the &lt;blink&gt; tag. While I like smart meters, this one isn&#8217;t quite as smart as it could be. To me, a smart meter needs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[270,959,43,305],"class_list":["post-3357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","category-wind-things","tag-linux","tag-smart_meter","tag-toronto","tag-ubuntu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-S9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4393,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions\/4393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}