Ramblings! I’ll tell you what I don’t know, and so much more.

  • Project By Pictures

    That’s it.  Just a bunch of pictures showing the patio before and after the paving stones are laid down.  The retaining wall still has not been finished.  The cap stones are natural Siltstones from a field just 8 miles away.  It’s rare to find siltstone formations around here but we did.

  • FLOSS, FOSS, CC, Etc, Etc.

    FLOSS = Free Libre Open Source Software. FOSS = Free Open Source Software CC= Creative Commons Licencing Now that you know sort-of what I’m referring to, I just wanted to post an article on some of the applications I’ve been exploring and testing that mostly fall under the FLOSS category. By day I’m busy doing…

  • The Wife Suggested This Article

    I was bouncing ideas off my wife about what the topic of my next blog post.  She interrupted me and said “how about balancing work and personal projects??”  I got the hint right away.  If you look at the chart above, you’ll notice that at the bottom there is a project called “Home Laundry Area”. …

  • Are You Afraid of Analytics?

    These 3 videos had me laughing hard!  I moonlight as a web developer.  I’ve used Google’s Analytics before when I was webmaster for a petroluem consulting firm.  The application is very powerful.  I keep tabs on the tools Google provides to webmasters through their blog. One of their posts has these videos.  I just had…

  • Computers In Carpentry

    I’ve mentioned before that I used to work a lot in front of a computer.  I supported a group of geological engineers that made 3D models of the earths sub-surface.  Advanced computer graphics don’t scare me – except for those games with the nasty beasts in them.  I took a look at Trimble SketchUp over…

  • Frosty Transformer

    Around the beginning of November we had a strange weather system come through the region. It was mostly fog and the temperature was just low enough to have it form ice crystals on everything. As the icey crystals grew, it started to snap the electric lines from the weight. Our power was out off and…

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