We have been working on refinishing our front doors for almost a year. They were in awful shape when we bought the house having suffering from many years of neglect and New England weather. It’s our guess that nothing has been done to them since the day they were installed on the newly built house in 1982.

When we started this project we were blessed with the blissful absence of experience or knowledge of the process. So we thought to ourselves, “Gee, this can’t be that hard, we’ll do it ourselves!”. I remember that day… a day that will live in infamy. Continue reading Front doors are D O N E!! →

Ok, so it’s been awhile since my last post. We’ve been taking advantage of the last of the warm weather to finish up a few outside projects. Yes, the infamous ‘front door refinishing’ project is done!

I’ll post some pics tomorrow… err… today.

Must…. sleep…. now…

This one is a bit twisty, so stay with me folks…

It all started with this post on Slashdot.

It seems like such an obviously good thing — transparency in the Government’s spending of our money. Nice! What a great idea! I’m sure it’s going to be a twisty bitch to implement, but well worth the effort. That is, unless, you have something to hide.

From the original post, comes a real nugget:

“There is no conceivable, rational explanation for killing this legislation unless they have something to hide.”

Continue reading Chalk up another one for Senator ‘NutJob’ Stevens… →

Zune, the very-not-secret new portable player/music store-iTunes-wannabe device will have WiFi. This is not news, it’s been mentioned many times before. What may have been overlooked is the fact that you will not be able to purchase music directly from the device; you have to go to your PC, purchase, download to the PC and then transfer to the device. This, if true, is brain dead. Oh, wait…right… lawyers are invovled.

I just hope this isn’t the case of a bunch of Luddite, worrywort copyright-absolutist attorneys standing in the way of innovative technology.

I like this quote a lot. I may use it myself. 😉 The entire piece is linked below.

» Zune’s Wi-Fi has it bass ackwards | IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband | ZDNet.com

I’ll skip the drama surrounding the departure of Amanda Congdon from RocketBoom.  However, I will point you to an excellent piece she did regarding Net Neutrality.

Rocketboom

I so do love our Nakamichi SoundSpace 3 alarm clock.  It has FAN-DAMN-TASTIC sound (subwoofer bhaybee!) sleek, classy design and what was most important to us, two displays.  We can each control the alarm (of which it has two) and check how late for work we are without rolling up on one elbow to see over the other person to the clock on the far nightstand.  Sweet.

I sloghed through several eBay auctions (it has been out of production for a few years) before finally getting my hands on one.  Imagine my disappointment when it arrived DOA.  Undetered, I grabbed a few tools and cracked the sucka open.  One of the cable connectors had come loose in transit.  Simple.  JOY!

This little beastie may have me rethinking my choice.

Despite the name (are they trying to attract sharks or customers?), this little gem is packed with geeky-goodness.  This thing isn’t even publicly available yet but it already has quite a few case mods and Flash based ‘widgets’.

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