Over this weekend, I’ve begun to work in my shop again. I know, I know. That’s all I do is stop then start with my woodworking. I think that is the nature of hobbies when you have a family. My project, for the past few years, is a blanket chest for our entry way. I’m [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Hobbies’
Guitar Scale Sheets
I’ve been working on all my Guitar Scale sheets which you can find the current version in my downloads area (see tab at the site of my blog site). I’ve decided to update them and add additional keys to fill out my collection. The updates are around making the graphics (which are JPG files) have [...]
Workshop reogranization
I don’t know where all this energy and focus has come from but I have caught up on a few things sitting on my desk and now I’ve even gone out to my Woodworking Workshop. I had some ideas on how to reorganize the shop based on my usage of the shop the last year [...]
Our Family Twitter
Ok, this isn’t exactly Twitter but I’m going to keep calling it that because at this point I’m not signing up for it. I’ve instead set up a separate WordPress blog with the Prologue theme so that my family can have a very personal twitter like interaction. I’ve mentioned this in a past post. Last [...]
Themes
I tried a new theme today but I’ve since taken it down. My problem with some themes is that I like the basics but the authors do such a great job at putting technology into them that they make it hard for people like me to come along and customize them a bit more. The [...]
Guitar – String Bending and Vibrato
Now, I’m probably not a beginner guitar player anymore but I’m not really sure that I’m that far from a beginner. I guess this is one of those areas that I lack confidence in. Yes, I’m building up knowledge and even some skill but putting it all together so that I can replicate the guitar [...]
Blog issue last night
This morning when I woke up (Happy Easter, by the way!), I found that my blog was down. At first, I thought there might be some hosting issues but I quickly found this wasn’t the case as that both my plain website was fine and also another (test) blog was up. Since I am running [...]
WordPress 2.5 Release Candidate
WordPress 2.5 Release Candidate 1 was released yesterday. With my blog, I tend to be bleeding edge so I installed it. It went up with no trouble. The UI for administrators is a nice change though it seems a little slower at this point. It will take some getting used to. There are some features [...]
Blast Gate for Dust Collection
I have had some conversations with a friend of mine over the past bunch of years about these blast gates that I’ve been using. They are very cool. I had the typical blast gates that everyone uses that were simple lift gates. My problem with them were the first set that I had were plastic [...]
Applescript and MacJournal
I’ve never done any Applescript but I thought I would give it a try. I still had some work to do to finish off my migration work that Applescript sounded like the perfect tool for (the migration for my blog history from Ecto/Wordpress to my new blog tool MacJournal). In looking at Applescript, I’ve discovered [...]
New MacBook Pro
Well, I returned the old model and ordered the new model and now it’s here. I’ve been installing apps and setting up apps. I’m nearly done. It’s very peppy. I hope to use it for some work that I do with the boys school (PTSA stuff) and also my guitar work. I’m also going to [...]
Importing old blog post entries
I’ve been busy working on a project to import all my old blog post entries into MacJournal. It is taking a while because the format for import is not the same as the export for WordPress and so takes a lot of manipulation with the output. If I was more effective with Automator or another [...]
Email Newsletter Subscription Option
I’ve been wanting to have the option for readers of my blog to be able to subscribe via email but the options for WordPress blogs have not been to my liking. I’ve come across one that seems like it has the features that I like. If I’ve got it configured correctly, the newsletter will come [...]
Our HDTV Update
If you remember a few posts ago, I mentioned that our 5 year old HDTV died. Kathy was just watching it and the picture went off and a light on the front panel started blinking. Generally not good. As a customer of this Pioneer Elite Rear Screen Projection TV (which is no longer made), we [...]
MacJournal – Update
I’ve been playing/using MacJournal’s trial for about 12 hours now. It seems to do everything I want including updates, tags, separate journals for Blogs, private diaries, and even imports. The imports are difficult and take a lot of work but they do happen. The imports do lose some information like tags but the data that [...]