Month: January 2005

  • parking

    Hamilton has got to be the only place in the world where you can get a parking ticket for parking in your own driveway. The builder of our subdivision, in his infinite wisdom, placed the sidewalks a long ways away from the road, leaving us without enough room to park two vehicles. The alternatives we…

  • Hammered Dulcimer

    My hammered dulcimer is finally complete! Well… almost. There’s a few more things that need to be done, including replacing the bass bridge, finishing the very rough hammers, and learning how to play it. I’ve posted some pictures at my Dulcimer gallery. Specifically, a full pictures of the finished product, a view from the players…

  • comment spam fix

    A while back I wrote about the comment spam plague that affects a lot of blogs, including mine. One of the reasons that comment spam exists is to boost the spammer’s site rankings in Google. Some of the blog software vendors and Google have gotten together and released a way of fixing the site rankings,…

  • offsets

    Offsets are the plague-of-the-week in my life. At work, we’re having trouble with messaging, seems some of the message headers are messed up, some of the bytes are offset by one. It causes all sorts of havoc like messages not going where they’re supposed to and other such grief. At home, I realized all the…

  • Happy New Year!

    This post has been a long time in coming. So first of all, Happy New Year! We had an excellent holiday, so good in fact that I didn’t touch a computer for something like 7 days in a row. That’s a record for me, and a well deserved break after the crunch we went through…