Author: Thomas

  • The Wife Suggested This Article

    I was bouncing ideas off my wife about what the topic of my next blog post.  She interrupted me and said “how about balancing work and personal projects??”  I got the hint right away.  If you look at the chart above, you’ll notice that at the bottom there is a project called “Home Laundry Area”. …

  • Are You Afraid of Analytics?

    These 3 videos had me laughing hard!  I moonlight as a web developer.  I’ve used Google’s Analytics before when I was webmaster for a petroluem consulting firm.  The application is very powerful.  I keep tabs on the tools Google provides to webmasters through their blog. One of their posts has these videos.  I just had…

  • Computers In Carpentry

    I’ve mentioned before that I used to work a lot in front of a computer.  I supported a group of geological engineers that made 3D models of the earths sub-surface.  Advanced computer graphics don’t scare me – except for those games with the nasty beasts in them.  I took a look at Trimble SketchUp over…

  • Frosty Transformer

    Around the beginning of November we had a strange weather system come through the region. It was mostly fog and the temperature was just low enough to have it form ice crystals on everything. As the icey crystals grew, it started to snap the electric lines from the weight. Our power was out off and…

  • The Word in WordPress and The New Look

      I’m quite bias.  WordPress is the only platform that I’m using right now for website development.  I’m not actually familiar with the others (Joomla, Drupal, etc, etc..).  WordPress is now the number one web cms technology.  But, with greatness comes the people who love to hate successful things/people.  Every time I find a wordpress…

  • There’s Copper in Them There Bins, Part Two

    In part one of this two-part post I talked about my mad plan to cash in all the little scraps of copper pipe and wire that I saved from my renovation jobs. My effort was working out to $8 per hour based on my 1 hour test which ended with about 4 pounds of stripped…