Monthly Archives: November 2009
When Home Improvement and Car Projects Meet
As I posted before, we just bought a house. We’re in love with the place, which sits on a full acre, but it does need a few things. Such as a workshop/garage. We’re hoping to break ground on a shop … Continue reading
Lists
Acquire: 3 GFCI outlets 4 regular outlets 2 wall boxes for outlets 4 junction boxes 2 motion sensing light fixtures 12 CFLs brackets for stair hand rail garbage disposal lunch To Do: Rewire existing kitchen outlets Rewire the two upstairs … Continue reading
My Thoughts on SEO
For those that don’t know, SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. It is (supposedly) a methodology to use to make sure your blog is found by search engines like Google. Here’s a secret: Unless you put up a robots.txt file … Continue reading
What Twitter Should Do About DM Spam
Direct Message spam is out of control on Twitter. Here are two things Twitter should do ASAP to help fix the problem. 1 – Direct Messages were intended to be private messages between people. Twitter should enforce that and modify … Continue reading
We bought a house!
We haven’t quite yet – we’re signing the papers on Thursday. Pics of the house can be found here: http://cli.gs/rBsq8B 1 1/2 story, 3bd, 1ba, on an acre of land. We’ll mostly have cows for neighbors. It’s a bit of … Continue reading
What Can Be Open Sourced?
I’m sure most of you are aware of open sourced software. The creators of the Xtracycle (a long-framed bicycle designed for carrying cargo) have open sourced their design. Electronics have been open sourced, as with Arduino. Food recipes might as … Continue reading
How to Become More Intelligent
via dumblittleman.com http://www.dumblittleman.com/2009/11/how-to-become-more-intelligent.html Do you realize that through reading you can learn in a few hours what took someone decades to learn? Reading not only informs, but it also increases your capacity for learning, thereby increasing your intelligence. Posted via … Continue reading
Book Review: Crush It!
Gary Vaynerchuk’s book, Crush It! Why Now Is the Time to Cash in on Your Passion, is a great primer on why and how to use various social media applications – Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc – to build your brand … Continue reading