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What are "similar houses"? Maybe that is the trick. If they are comparing you with someone who has no kids, never cooks and eats at home, lives in a warmer climate, or only spends some time of the year there, then there is no doubt that you lose the battle. If there is a single empty house in the stack, then it is going to lower the average --- that is also the reason why often the median make more sense than the average.
Commented Nov 26, 2012 on For a Bit of Colored Ribbon at Coding Horror
For a Bit of Colored Ribbon
For the last year or so, I've been getting these two page energy assessment reports in the mail from Pacific Gas & Electric, our California utility company, comparing our household's energy use to those of the houses around us. Here's the relevant excerpts from the latest report; click throug...
Could you please share the presentation in a way that does not involve mandatory registration to another random site (which does not support OpenID, by the way)?
Commented Jun 1, 2012 on How to Stop Sucking and Be Awesome Instead at Coding Horror
How to Stop Sucking and Be Awesome Instead
I've been fortunate to have some measure of success in my life, primarily through this very blog over the last eight years, and in creating Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange over the last four years. With the birth of our twin girls, I've had a few months to pause and reflect on those experienc...
Step 2 is digitally signing/encrypting all e-mail.
Commented Feb 24, 2012 on Should All Web Traffic Be Encrypted? at Coding Horror
Should All Web Traffic Be Encrypted?
The prevalence of free, open WiFi has made it rather easy for a WiFi eavesdropper to steal your identity cookie for the websites you visit while you're connected to that WiFi access point. This is something I talked about in Breaking the Web's Cookie Jar. It's difficult to fix without making ma...
I see you're sharing your MAC address. Is it risk-free? Don't you fear being tracked?
Commented Sep 25, 2010 on Because Everyone Needs a Router at Coding Horror
Because Everyone Needs a Router
Do you remember when a router used to be an exotic bit of network kit? Those days are long gone. A router is one of those salt-of-the-earth items now; anyone who pays for an internet connection needs a router, for: NAT and basic hardware firewall protection from internet evildoers A wired net...
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