Its been a little while since I wrote something into this place. Things are really busy right now. With Christmas and end-of-the-year stuff, things are winding down, with people trying to finish stuff before the break.

I have been really looking at getting back into the home automation hobby. I have tried a few things over the past few years, but nothing organized. I have been trying to use X10 to control the devices, but in our house, it doesn't want to work properly. In all honestly it is probably my problem. There is probably noise on the line that is swamping the X10 signals.

I have one thing I seem to stay with. I alway have used a program called "MisterHouse" (http://misterhouse.net). The program is written in Perl and since I have used Perl extensively it makes a natural fit. Stay tuned for more details.