In a previous post, I discussed the virtues of having an automated backup process. I gave the advice of having an external drive or file server as well as some offsite backups. I’ve since changed my mind. I had some troubles configuring my file server to properly go to sleep and wake up when needed, […]
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Gas mileage improvements
Spurred on by a related post from wyoming_1, I’ve decided to finally post the results of an experiment I tried recently to improve the gas mileage of my truck on my daily commute. I drive a 2007 Toyota Tundra 4-door pickup with a 5.7L V8, so as you can imagine, my mileage isn’t great. My […]
Drying rack for cloth diapers
I’m in the middle of a rather large project, so I decided that I’d go for a “quick win” (as they say at work) to get something posted here. I wrote up a quick page about the DIY drying rack I threw together. It literally took longer to write the page than to build the […]
Free graph paper
I’ve got a new building project, and I needed some graph paper to do my design work. You can always go buy a pad of special graph paper, but I found that you can download PDFs of graph paper and print them at home. There are a lot of choices, but one I like is […]
Archiving old email – part three
When searching is what you need to do, Google is hard to beat. For this reason, I wanted to mirror my local email archive onto a Gmail account. As I mentioned earlier, I’ve already archived all of my mail locally in Thunderbird. I set up a second Gmail account for my archive, in order to […]
Archiving old email – part two
In the previous post, I described my method for archiving my old email in Thunderbird. As promised, here are some notes about cleaning up your inbox in Thunderbird. Removing duplicates One great tool I like to use is the “Remove Duplicate Messages (Alternate)” Thunderbird extension. To use the extension, you must first set the options, […]
Archiving old email – part one
Some may wonder why, but I’ve been on a long quest to properly archive my old email. I have around 25,000 email messages saved since 1995, and I’d like them to be organized, searchable and future-proof. Of course, some emails I like to keep for purely sentimental reasons, but I also have found my archive […]
My tall girl
Yesterday Mia had her two-week checkup at the doctor’s office. Her 2-week measurements were 10lbs and 21.5 inches. As you may recall, she was 19 inches long at birth. If she keeps growing at this rate, she’ll be nearly 6 feet tall by her first birthday. I guess there’s a CHANCE the original hospital measurement […]
Introducing Mia Charlotte
Mia Charlotte Atterberry was born on 3/15/08 at 9:40am, weighing 8lb 15.5oz and 19in long. Mom and baby both doing great! Click on the picture below for some pictures we’ve posted: We’re all home from the hospital, and I’m taking the week off. Evan is excited to be a big brother! Thanks so much to […]
Any day now!
I’m not sure who all has been following along, but today marks the official 37 week point in the gestation of our next offspring. In other words, our baby is welcome to arrive any day now! Like most ladies in her position, Dusty prefers sooner rather than later! The room is ready, the bags are […]