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Not a bad year for the pool
We had a pretty good 2007 swimming season. We opened up on Memorial Day weekend and were swimming soon thereafter. And we set a new record for latest day in the pool — October 9. As a matter of fact, the pool got pretty regular use in late September and the first week of October…
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More WordPress
Well, as these things always go, the WordPress conversion turned out not to be quite as simple as I had originally thought. Now, I expected that permalinks would be broken, so I went through and fixed all those (as well as some permalinks back into my old Blosxom blog that I never bothered to update…
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WordPress
Now that I’m using my blog again, I decided to ditch b2evolution for WordPress. B2Evolution has served me well, but I’ve never been crazy about its look-and-feel or its selection of skins. And, most of my geeky-type friends who blog, use WordPress, so I figured I would give it a shot. Importing was easy thanks…
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Michael’s room finished (except for carpet)
Finally put a wrap on painting Michael’s room last night. Based on prior blog entries, this project droned on for almost a year. Kind of par for the course for projects these days, it seems. The room has actually been habitable for a month now (Michael slept there for the first time on 9/22… a…
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Master bedroom wiring – know what I need
Replaced the outlet at the foot of Andrew’s bed this morning, and it confirms the wiring layout: Master bedroom ceiling fixture Master bedroom switch box Andrew’s room, outlet at foot of bed Master bedroom, outlet behind bed Back basement, ceiling fixture This is everything I need to know to come up with a plan…
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Demystifying master bedroom fan wiring
This evening I did a little preliminary detective work to try to figure out the ceiling fan wiring in the master bedroom, in preparation for redoing it. The goal is to reroute the hot and neutral wiring around the switch box, leaving only a single 14/3 switch loop going to the box. That way the…
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Fun with ssh tunnels
A couple months back, UMBC decided to block off-campus access to most of its internal hosts. Included in this bunch was concerto, which houses this blog as well as my house wiki. Although I could probably apply for and get a hole punched in the firewall for http and ssh, I decided not to bother.…
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Firefox new window links
I’ve always hated when links open in new windows (usually by adding a target=”_blank” attribute). Except in a few very rare instances, there’s just no reason to do it. Firefox allows the user to disable this behavior, but the procedure is not very well documented, so it seems like every time I want to do…
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Fixing openoffice.org fonts..
I use openoffice.org all the time on my Debian server box, most of the time through a VNC connection. Problem is, the fonts have always looked horrible. ISTR that they weren’t always bad, but they’ve certainly been bad for awhile. Well, today I finally sat down and fixed it. It all started out when I…
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Let’s go paperless
I’m on a paperless kick. I’ve decided that I have too much paperwork cluttering up my file cabinets, desk drawers, etc., so I’m getting rid of as much of it as I can. My goal is to shrink my paperwork collection down so that it only takes up one file cabinet (I currently have three).…