First steps

It was about a week ago, I was rambling my way through the internet and decided to do a search on O'REILLY books (a very geek thing to do). I ran across a couple of books that I might be interested in, one of them being Smart Home Hacks http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596007221/sr=8-1/qid=1155689161/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-8954581-0415051?ie=UTF8

I thought to myself, "self, this could be kinda cool", so I added it to my amazon wish list. Well, it wasn't on there long enough for anyone to actually think about buying it for me. My wife and I had managed to unload the kid at my aunt's house for a couple of hours over the weekend, and we decided to go to Barnes & Noble, and lo and behold, Smart Home Hacks was sitting on the shelf. Sitting down to read it for a while, I couldn't help but buy it. Needless to say, when I got it home, I finished it that night.

Having read through the book, I decided to implement a few of the projects. A couple of days of research into my options and user experiences, and I still wasn't any closer to making any decisions. That's when I decided to start this blog, to document my research, my decision making processes, and my actual implementations.

Let me stress... I AM NEW AT THIS. I have never touched any of these technologies before. And frankly, there wasn't a lot of information and user experiences by new people out on the net, so for posterity, documentation purposes, and for those times when my wife asks "What were you thinking", here is the Home Automation Starter blog.