Author: Thomas

  • The Coldest Day

    It is the coldest it has been this winter. My saw is alone on the frozen landscape. Tonight it is expected to get down to minus 32degrees celsuis. I am glad I have all my cuts done for this job.

  • Dull Tools Are Dangerous

    I’m quite a fan of having sharp tools. They get dull too quickly, which I tried to solve by not using them. This only made work go very slowly. The next thing I tried was developing a way to sharpen dull tools quickly, at the job-site. My favorite is the diamond plates from princessauto.com. They…

  • Project By Pictures

    That’s it.  Just a bunch of pictures showing the patio before and after the paving stones are laid down.  The retaining wall still has not been finished.  The cap stones are natural Siltstones from a field just 8 miles away.  It’s rare to find siltstone formations around here but we did.

  • FLOSS, FOSS, CC, Etc, Etc.

    FLOSS = Free Libre Open Source Software. FOSS = Free Open Source Software CC= Creative Commons Licencing Now that you know sort-of what I’m referring to, I just wanted to post an article on some of the applications I’ve been exploring and testing that mostly fall under the FLOSS category. By day I’m busy doing…

  • 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…