Rebuilding RAID 1 (with Intel Matrix Storage Manager)

I am running a RAID 1 setup on an Intel Storage Matrix controller. After a power outage, the disks sometimes get out of sync.

To restore the RAID, install the Intel Storage Matrix Manager, then start the Intel Storage Matrix Console program.

Go to RAID Hard Drives and find the out of sync drive. Right click and select repair to start the rebuilding process.

Widening a blogger/blogspot blog

I wanted to display high-res pictures on a blog but the standard width was only ~500 pixels or so.

To widen the blog, from the blog page, click "Design", which will bring you to Template settings. Click "Customize", then "Adjust Widths".

To post 800 pixel wide pictures, I made my blog 1140 pixels, with a sidebar of 240 pixels.

When embedding youtube videos, I make the size 800x450 pixels.

Gmail draining battery on android phone

I have a fairly new Samsung Note 2 phone running Android v4.1.2. One day I noticed that the battery was draining much more quickly than usual. (It usually lasts over two full days without a charge but recently it didn't even make it through one day.)

I went to Settings->Battery and it showed that Gmail was using 80% of the battery. This is weird because it's usually the screen or Android OS that consumes all the battery.

In the Gmail app, I also noticed that it was constantly refreshing on the lower right.

Google searching led me here, which recommended going to Settings->Application manager->All->GMail and clicking "Clear data". It was previously using several GB (I didn't record the exact amount) but after clearing, it was back down to ~13MB. Pre-clearing, the cache was also several GB and after it was ~2MB.

Clearing the data solved my problem.