admin September 10th, 2009
With hurricane Fred declared I thought I’d mention it’s been about a year since Hurricane Ike and also it’s the anniversary of the Great Hurricane of 1900 that wiped out Galveston. Still today you can see the destruction from Ike along the coast. The lawyers are on TV wanting to sue the insurance companies. Even today I met a contractor from New Orleans. I asked him why he didn’t go back after Katrina, he said his family moved out here and he finds plenty of work here. So even tho you may not hear about it anymore the disaster is still on going. I suppose that’s true of most disasters. Looks like Fred will be nice. There hasn’t been much to worry about for storms this year, but we still have a few more weeks to go in the season.
Tags: ideas storms hurricanes
admin August 4th, 2009
Yes I’m making a little more progress on the new house project. This is pic of where the new house is going. The drive is on the left (west), house will sit just off the garage and that’s the old cabin to the right.
If the picture scrolls off your screen you see a full size image here http://www.flickr.com/photos/96trees/3788993077/sizes/l/
Tags: building, site
admin August 2nd, 2009
I’m generally cheap, but sometimes I splurge. In this case I keep cooking oils in a wine bottle. I think it looks good on the counter and it makes it handy. I’ve used corks in the past, but lately it seems I’ve been breaking them more often than not. So I went looking for some kind of stopper. Found these for about $10 a pair. Wine and oil poor nicely, they look good and seal the bottle nicely. Okay maybe $10 isn’t much of a splurge, but considering I’ve been dealing with broken corks for about three years now it’s a luxury I’ve indulged in.
Tags: caps, cooking oil, pour, top, wine bottle
admin December 19th, 2008
Second in what could become a long diatribe about Microsoft’s OS, aka Windows.
Microsoft’s automatic update…after it does it downloads and installs it’s software, as usual Windows needs to reboot. So it pops this dialog box UNDER your running applications. If you don’t see it, then all of a sudden your computer reboots. Too bad your data is lost. Yes I know you can do manual updates, but this is the default and recommended setup.
Tags: Linux, Microsoft
admin December 16th, 2008
This is the first post of me griping about Microsoft Windows software. Not that Linux is perfect but you won’t see this kind of krap in open software.
Digital Rights Management, aka DRM, pure and simple it sucks the life out my enjoyment of music and film,
Don’t take my word for it, read this post about watching Netflix movies on your PC DRM Still Sucks
Tags: DRM, Linux, Mircosoft
admin December 12th, 2008
So what does a lame remake of a lame old TV show have to do with Top Gear? Okay they both have cars in them, what else?
link is to Jalopnik.com
admin December 11th, 2008
This is in Bellville TX, December 10, 2008 8:15pm
Tags: snow
admin December 7th, 2008
The question about how many Linux users there are is often presented by expert type folks. It is also debated in various forums. Considering the value of such marketing statistics I did my own dubious survey. Here is my methodology…
I think I know about 200 folks directly and I sampled about 12. I’m no statistician but I think that is a margin of error of 60%! It’s not a true random survey either, over the last month I kept track of the folks I’ve talked computers with. The Linux number is high because I included myself and the one person I’ve converted.
So with those caveats, and my creative math I come up with:
16% use Vista
58% use XP
8% Apple
16% Linux
2% Other
Tags: Linux, Mepis, sidux, Windows
admin November 30th, 2008
Lately, I have been working on my house plans, and since I’m too cheap to hire an architect, I try to figure things out my own self. Example; I want to use the space under the stairs as a kind of office space, you know a place to keep my red stapler.
Best way I know is mock it up, so I’m using the pantry under my stairs, place a chair about where it would be if there was desk. The end of the tape measure marks the location of the wall. So now I can visualize the space.
Tags: cheap, house plans, visualization
