Feb 25 2010
What is up with this? I guess my domain must have ended up in some “target” file for a marketing campaign… It is amazing how many “spam” comments get posted to your website each month. Akismet blocked almost 14,000 spam comments THIS month. I used to only get about 50 per month; you can see that last November it started to ramp up (1,700), and then died back down… What is even more curious is that these comments must have gotten past reCAPTCHA…
Feb 25 2010
I found this really cool poster when we were Christmas shopping last December and thought it would be great for my guitar playing son. Needless to say, I hid the poster in the basement and found it in January, oh well!
I have a quite a stack of ruff sawn cherry in the barn and thought it was actually time to make some sawdust! I planed down enough boards to make a couple frames and build a stand for our new TV. Friend of ours purchased some furniture at Artisan Hardwoods; they have a really nice shaped series of tables called Waterfall, but were a tab bit pricey for me! And besides, why would I buy anything out of wood, when I can build it! I plan to model our TV stand after this design, just a little bit narrower, more like a short console table.
The most interesting part of this project was the price of glass, it was outrageous. You can not even buy “cheap” Plexiglas anymore, it is even more expensive than real glass. No wonder nice picture frames are so expensive! Believe it or not, I had quotes from $35 to over $150. As you can see by the wonderful reflection in the picture, I did not spring for the anti-glare glass, I just could not justify spending $70 on a $10 poster; even if the frame did turn out pretty nice, IMHO.
Sorry for the random, non-technology posts, but I do have hobbies other than software development! So don’t give up on me, I have such a backlog of techo-drafts in the hopper… I have read so many interesting articles in the last couple of months, I just lost a little bit of “writing” incentive over the holidays…
Maybe a topic for another post, but I was given a “smartphone” for my birthday last December and I actually have not tuned on my home computer since then… no need, what so ever. I can do everything I need to, on my phone; it was actually a pretty weird realization… The only thing I gave up was my ability to “blog”, hence the lack of postings! I did install the free WordPress application on my Droid, but I like to type too much!
