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Even on my own in the office above my garage I can decorate, right? ;) Published with BlogMailr

So, this weekend I did nothing of interest to geeks. No Community Server tag on this post. Instead, it was all about me and my garage. First, Tara and I sheetrocked the lower 4 feet of the walls (the hardest 4 feet of course with all the outlets in it). This allowed us to build the workbenches around 30 feet of the wall. And then tonight I ...

New house, new routines. It's strange how blogging has suffered from me moving 3 weeks ago. I have 660 unread blog posts right now as I find that reading them has become a lower priority. As has writing them. I used to want to blog every day, but that desire has vanished for now. Maybe it'll be back! So, I moved house. We love the new ...

My home office: Brad Feld's home office: We both have 3 screens, but I think he might just have taken it up a notch. Brad also talks about taking his wife out for lunch once a month, and giving gifts. This time I win; Tara and I have recurring appointments for lunch every week - everyone with kids should do this. Put it on your calendar ...

I played with Flickr a long time ago, but never really used it until last night/this morning.  I've been doing another round of building/testing the Community Server MSI in the last 24 hours and building/uninstalling takes a while. I've been using those ''whiles'' to start using Flickr and upload some photos. I quickly hit the limit on a ...

Our house appraiser recommended I get in a roofing company to check the roof. In turn the roofing company recommended that I claim for wind/hail damage on my house insurance after finding some damage up there. So a roofing inspector turns up at my house in a small little sedan. Not a truck - clue #1. He pulls out one of those foldout step ...

Some very interesting articles came onto my screen over the last few days: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far  For card-carrying Geeks only, this article is worth reading on two counts: 1. because Mark is damn impressive and 2. Sony are being very naughty Diamonds are for never (sic) A great thought-provoking essay ...

IPIX is really impressive. If you've ever spent 10 minutes looking at houses online you'll probably have seen one - they usually call them virtual tours, and they allow you to rotate around the room with your mouse. You can see our house using this technology now, the new tours went online last night.  Easy to use isn't it? Even more ...

Hugh is always talking about global microbrands - so here's a new one for you. My House. It went on the market on Friday and within a few days was on the Coldwell Banker website - with a ridiculously long and horrible URL. So I bought www.255ChaffinRoad.com and forwarded all traffic to their site. Cost: $9.20 and 3 minutes. Now I have to ...

Driveway, Painting, Carpets - sounds like a simple list of things that our realtor wants us to fix, doesn't it? It's simple from the point of view that for the most part we're just opening our check books and paying for the jobs to be done (although Tara is painting half the house herself). But this last month has been a dusty mess! All the ...