Had a great family Thanksgiving dinner yesterday. We had three generations, including both grandparents and all the kids and their wives (if married). Food was fantastic — fired turkey, spiral-sliced ham, oyster & sausage dressing, sausage dressing, rolls, sweet potato casserole, green beans, corn souffle, pecan pie, birthday cake, homemade ice cream, and more. I [...]
Website visits hits high!
November 18, 2004 By Leave a Comment
There was a post about HDTV tuner cards this morning on Slashdot. I made one of the earliest followup comments, regarding why HDTV cards are available for off-the-air only and not for cable systems yet. I also pointed to my Home Theater PC articles on my web site. WOW! As of 8:10pm (about 10.5 hours [...]
Serendipity upgrade
November 17, 2004 By Leave a Comment
Interesting Times — Ivan, part 2
September 15, 2004 By Leave a Comment
Serendipity — upgrade
September 14, 2004 By Leave a Comment
Just finished the upgrade to version 0.7beta2. There were a number of changes to the mysql database tables, which caused some issues temporarily. All finally resolved. The issue was with the Serendipity user of the MySQL database. I had changed its privileges, but the changes weren’t showing. I needed to do a reload of the [...]
RK Drum roasting — session 2
September 13, 2004 By Leave a Comment
Did my second and third batches yesterday. I was able to control them much better with better results. In addition to the New Braunfels thermometer mounted to the grill, I used my Digital Thermometer with thermocouple ($29.90 at Sweet Maria’s). This is the one imported by Circuit Specialists, from whom I bought mine along with [...]
Build Your Own Computer day
September 12, 2004 By Leave a Comment
PC Tuneup organizational meeting
September 11, 2004 By Leave a Comment
Gulf snapper fishing trip
September 9, 2004 By Leave a Comment
I went on a charter boat fishing trip on Wednesday, sponsored by my broker. Boy! Was that fun! We went to Port Fouchon on Tuesday to Steve Tomeny’s Charters (800-259-8452), and slept in one of his “cabins”. There are four of these, and each has a bunk room that sleeps 20 and a similar-sized room [...]
RK Drum roasting — setup & 1st roast
September 6, 2004 By Leave a Comment
A couple months ago, I won a contest on the Sweet Maria’s mailing list, where Ron Kyle was offering one of his fantastic stainless steel drums for roasting coffee. You couple this with the gas grill and rotisserie of your choice. For various reasons, I delayed purchasing a second gas grill to do this project. [...]