Polaris Water Heater Troubles

We’ve had our Polaris high efficiency hot water heater active for about 10 months now. Yesterday morning I heard a loud popping sound from the basement, and a few hours later Shanna was complaining about not having any hot water. I went downstairs and the unit was flashing once, indicating that there was a problem…

Shopping for a TempurPedic Bed

Shanna and I spent all day Sunday shopping for a new TempurPedic mattress. I wasn’t looking forward to it at all – shopping for a mattress is like shopping for a used car, dealing with sales people, warranties, upsells, competition between businesses, etc. Sure enough, I was right. Man, what an experience, 6 hours long….

Apostrophes in Community Server

I noticed that the RSS feed for this blog had a screwed up blog title because of the apostrophe in it. It seems that community server is htmlencoding the blog title, and that is getting passed through to the RSS feed as “& # 3 9 ;”. This was supposed to be fixed in a…