Cote’s Weblog

I wish I could get historic data from all my appliances. There’d be a USB port where you’d plug in a USB drive and it’d automatically download a CSV file with rows for whatever period and the metrics for that time sampling. For example, I’ve been on the Atkins diet, so I weigh myself at least every day. If I had one of these little ports, I could get a quick spreadsheet, and thus graph, of my weight over the past 2 weeks. Or, I could plug it into my car and get a bunch of metrics like my speed, distance traveled, fuel use, etc.

I realize stuff like this is probably available, but I just want it built it into the cheap stuff I get, all the cheap stuff. Not all that data would be useful — who really wants to see a graph of the fridge’s temperature every minute for the past 4 months? — but, being a systems management person by day, I’ve developed a weird hunger for any sort of monitoring data: I got all excited when I found out that my Airport had an SNMP server on it. Of course, if everything was networked and had SNMP, my resulting excitement would require a change of pants.

Popularity: 1% [?]