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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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 …
Public Service Announcement 2: Backups!
As you might have guessed from the previous post’s title, I have more than one piece of wisdom to impart. I have a question for you: “Are you backing up your data?” To cut the the chase, I recently had my 400GB Western Digital My Book external hard drive fail. I don’t know exactly what …
Public Service Announcement 1: Laundry Room
On Thursday, we had an unfortunate malfunction. The water level switch in our washing machine failed to trip. The switch is the device in a washer that detects when enough water has entered the tub. As you can probably imagine, that switch failing means that the washer will continue to “fill” well past the point …
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Firebug is awesome
I’ve been fooling around with web development for quite some time, but I’ve never been all that serious about it. I wrote a photo gallery plugin for WordPress in PHP, but I didn’t really know what I was doing. This evening I’ve been working on the AJAX portion of my plugin and I finally decided …