On April 28th, 2003 we signed a contract for a new deck. Not a normal deck mind you, but a top of the line vinyl deck. PVC that wouldn’t splinter, burn or need any maintenance beyond being hosed down occasionally. According to the contract it would installed in “2-4 weeks, completed in 2-4 days”. We Read More …

We spent another 3 hours on the basement office floor yesterday and it’s coming along quite nicely. Traci found a nick in one plank, so tonight I have to rip out 3 layers and replace one plank. But that won’t take long. The biggest slow down is cutting every 3rd board. If I’m motivated I Read More …

Well, that’s most Sunday’s, but not today. After all these web updates Dan said “Let’s go see the Matrix Reloaded”. So we did. Good movie. It’s nice to see people being hit up with good eternal questions on the nature of reality and what is real. This movie delivers a lot of thought and a Read More …

I’ve done a slight update to the main WireWoods House website. I’ve tried to make it a bit easier to add pictures of things that are going on. Hopefully I’ve succeeded. We’ve been quite busy the past few days. Friday we painted our office with a faux finish called Soft Suede from Sherwin Williams. The Read More …

Now this is a strange site. They really have some over the top articles here. Two I found interesting and amusing right off the top are not for the feint of heart. You have been warned.

Some interesting links today. The Star Wars Kid is interesting. Poor kid has become something of an internet phenomenon now. Now that he has been identified it looks like he’ll even be rewarded for his antics. At first I thought “another amusing little story”. But when I read the article about his identity being discovered Read More …

In addition to Saturday’s little romp with disintegrating power lines, Sunday before we left town for the day all of Powell lost power. Then last night as we were settling in for our nightly hibernation around midnight, what happens? Big storm, nice lighting flash and POOF goes the power! There I go again, down to Read More …

Since we seem to have taken Iraqi TV off the air I thought I’d try and find a web feed of al-Jazeera. Along the way I learned some interesting things about al-Jazeera in this article, In defense of al-Jazeera. Also interesting is that the al-Jazeera web site has shut down from spam and DoS attacks Read More …

I found a great article the other day on Slate. It described how to watch the Iraqi Satellite TV station. Unfortunately, that same day we bombed the Iraqi TV infrastructure so the only thing that has been on has been a still image. However, the web site DSL TV has some other interesting feeds as Read More …

At long last I was won over by the flexability of Moveable Type. I have migrated my blog to this format. It really wasn’t that difficult to do either. Next up will be figuring out how to add some graphics to the layout of the site as well as add more interesting things.