I feel like I’ve told this story a hundred times already. That’s because in reality I guess I have. I’ve been building wooden toy trains for a couple years now, based on the trains my grandparents made for me when I was a child. One day I started puttering around in the shop, looked up [...]

How to Sell…. anything. I’m writing this post as a response to something someone posted in a peer-group I’m a member of. I started to compose this as an email and decided halfway through to re-write it as a blog post and share it with you. Maybe you’ll find it of interest and maybe you [...]

My friends sometimes harp on me for picking on other companies who try to stretch their services over into my vertical market; most commonly telephone company employees, your Internet Service Provider’s employees, and most often electricians. For the record, I don’t do the same to them. If you have an electrical question more complicated than [...]

I was gonna to title this post “Supporting One Man’s Junk” but thought some people might mistake the intent of what I’m about to say… So, in honor of the First Free First Friday, (Geeze I already stutter, so I’ll never say that out loud successfully) I decided to offer something of my own. I [...]

This is just a heads-up to you other Facebook users out there. I logged into my Facebook account this afternoon to find out my daughter had been the victim of yet another of the daily Facebook viruses. This one seems to be mostly inane and harmless with the exception that it seems to spam everyone  [...]

This is a continuation of an earlier posts, located here if you want to start at the beginning.     I left off last night on what we were calling Step 4, so I guess we’ll pick up at step 5. We’ve already test-fit our boards together, found any problem areas we know we’ll have [...]

A few weeks ago I started a small project to build myself a new toolbox to hold some of my tools that just didn’t fit anywhere else. Specifically my Makita plunge router and the myriad of bits it takes to make it effective were sitting wanly on my workbench, calling out to me to give [...]

Grrr. I’m posting this one to see if maybe I can help others with the same problem I’m having. It’s fixed now, but it was a pain in the arse to track down. Using Joomla 1.5 and VirtueMart 1.1.3 I was having the problem of trying to add a new shipper to the shipper’s table. [...]

As a long time user and a paid user of Skype, I’m interested to try out the new beta version 4.0 I downloaded it tonight and so far am slightly impressed AND slightly paranoid at the increase in real-estate it takes on my screen. Here’s what we have so far: New Look: What’s up with [...]

Yes, it’s possible. I had so much popularity with my “Making Windows Live Writer Work With Blogger Beta” article that I had to share this one too.   I found myself wanting to replace WordPress with a new Joomla application on my main web site, but didn’t want to lose the ability to post using [...]