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Rest in peace, Ashes

December 20, 2018

Yesterday we had to lay our son, Ashes, down to rest. He was 14 years old and had been with us since we were a young couple in college. I loved that cat more than I realized. He helped me … Continue reading →

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RSS displayed with PHP – Updated!

November 28, 2018

A week ago I posted about using PHP to display an RSS feed. We moved to a new server that did not have DOM enabled, so I have updated my code to use curl instead of DOMDocument. Either method does … Continue reading →

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Display RSS feed as alert using PHP

November 19, 2018

Our school district had a need where we wanted to have the no school notice show on all of our district pages when an alert is sent out. I wanted to automate the process so that there wouldn’t need to … Continue reading →

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Clean your DHW tankless coil

October 22, 2018

We have hard water and we heat our water with an oil boiler and a tankless coil. This is, admittedly, a very inefficient method of heating water but it came with the house so we are making it work. Once … Continue reading →

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Driveway alignment, do it yourself!

September 25, 2018

I’ve always been under the assumption that alignments should only be done by professionals on an alignment rack. While I do still believe that this will give the best results, in a pinch, it can be done in the driveway … Continue reading →

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