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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I'd like to see how people work. Individual offices with doors & windows? Cubicles? Work from home by the pool? I see Scott's got a new chair, but he hasn't blogged about it yet. *Poke* Here's my home office, with the three screens that I think everyone should have (how do you work with less?). VS.NET Outlook + MSN IM 3 line taskbar + ...

Ok, so I'm back to blogging. Slight bump in the road successfully negotiated. One interesting thing to come out of it is that we're probably going to move house. Probably. We're in one of the most expensive parts of Atlanta; probably the most desirable for families and hence the fixer-upper we bought 4 years ago has almost doubled in value ...

Snippet-of-the-day #2 I find this surprising. A huge 30 foot branch snapped on a tree in our yard a few weeks ago, but remained attached. I decided to pull it off using our Expedition, but I needed a seriously beefy towrope. So I went to Home Depot (spot a recurring theme here anyone?) and looked at their tow-chains - assuming that a big-ass ...

Talking of lawns yesterday and how much I loved our front yard, Seth talks about ''the wasteful green expanse in front of your house''. Apparently we only have them to demonstrate wastefulness to our neighbors!